Maggots-
We needed brown matter to aide the decomposition so we got wood chips and leaves from large piles at school. Little did we know, these piles were home to common house fly larvae. They ended up in our compost. Fortunately, fly larvae are just icky and not harmful to compost. The only gross part was the smell for the one day that the larvae were alive inside Bokashi. Then they died. Everything is normal again.
We needed brown matter to aide the decomposition so we got wood chips and leaves from large piles at school. Little did we know, these piles were home to common house fly larvae. They ended up in our compost. Fortunately, fly larvae are just icky and not harmful to compost. The only gross part was the smell for the one day that the larvae were alive inside Bokashi. Then they died. Everything is normal again.
Outside the contained passive compost
The crate of passive compost seemed to work well for Solebury until we realized it was attracting all sorts of pests. A lot of the waste was scattered on the ground as crows, woodchucks, and dinosaurs made a feast of our biology project.
This all looks great, way to take the initiative folks. For the record, the Bokashi compost barrel will be residing at my residence for the summer, and when we picked it up it did smell pretty rancid. Also, unless I'm mistaken the "black box" composting bin was won by yours truly over five years ago at a watershed day event, and was subsequently donated to Solebury where it sat in Abbe unused. I'm glad it's finally being utilized. Way to be y'all.
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