compost

Designed to improve critical thinking skills, this book guides the reader on a fact-finding mission to learn about composting.

A rhyming recipe explains how to make the dark, crumbly, rich, earth-friendly food called compost.

Describes the cycle of soil decomposition and the water cycle, as well as how to develop a compost pile for recycling pea pods and other garden products into compost to feed a garden.

A beginner's guide to composting with step-by-step instructions. Covers selecting a container, choosing "ingredients," and using the end product. Discusses soil science, sandwich and sheet composting, grass-cycling, and mulching.

Aimed at the very young child, this picture book describes what composting is, what it does, and how to go about it.

Explains how to feed a worm, why worms are important to the Earth, and how they aid the environment.

Describes what happens in a compost pile and how creatures, from bacteria and mites to millipedes and earthworms, aid in the process of turning compost into humus.