Children at Column Nursery in Shrewsbury are learning how to turn waste into compost, by feeding their vegetable and fruit peelings to a thousand worms in their very own wormery.
The nursery is one of 35 nurseries and schools across Shropshire that have received a free wormery in celebration of Charles Darwin's bicentenary from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust's project.
Kay Rogers, manager of Column Nursery, which has 55 children on its roll, says, 'The Trust sent out letters to all the nurseries and schools asking if we were interested in having a wormery. There were only 35 going, so I rang up straight away.
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