The Waste Buster gang of composting worms!

The Waste Buster gang of composting worms!

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. “Hi ,  I’m Walter the Worm and a member of the Waste Buster gang. I used to live in a garden compost heap. I...
Composting flowers from a crematorium

Composting flowers from a crematorium

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. Several years ago, whilst working for Warrington Collegiate Institute and later Mysercough College, as a gardening tutor, I...
Learning science through nature

Learning science through nature

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. Learning outdoors, enables school children to explore the outside world and learn by discovering a whole new world....
Waste Buster wormery at Banks Road Primary School

Waste Buster wormery at Banks Road Primary School

Banks Road School now has its very own ‘Worm Hotel’, supplied by Garston Rotters Community Composting. George Pilkington, an expert on worms, came into school last year to teach Year 4 how to look after them. The children will have to keep the worms fed...
Bumblebee life cycle, kids video

Bumblebee life cycle, kids video

A bumblebee’s life cycle video aimed at children, that also gets the message across to us adults! It explains the complete bumblebee life cycle and is a nice animated overview of a complex issue. Although, in reality bumblebee queens lives are  fraught with many...