Tennyson High School Farm/Compost Pile

The Tennyson High compost pile our class created on 4-11-08 was very exciting and fun. This was something I had never done before. What we did as a class was we took a trip down to one of our fields that we use for farming and used: twigs,leaves,grass clippings, succulent plant matter, old compost, and water to make a 4ft. wide 4ft. long 4ft. high pile of compost. The class helped to make the pile and did different chores to help meet the measurements which was the tricky part. However, by working together we were able to do just that. my role and responsibilities for making the compost pile was spraying water from the hose on the compost pile. A compost pile is used to help break things like old plant matter and uneaten food into soil or fertilizer. This helps benefit because this is fertilizer and soil that is organic. To make a compost pile you lay down all of the ingredients I named but add water in between all of them. It takes at least 2 weeks to completely turn into soil or fertilizer.