Pocket Forests hosts Worm Workshop

Let's make a worm farm! A workshop for primary schools.

On Tuesday 22nd October 2024, Pocket Forests in collaboration with The Digital Hub welcomed sixth class from St. Audeon’s Primary School to the Pocket Forests nursery located in the car park of the Digital Depot.

Worms are superheroes. They quietly make everything better in the soil under our feet. But can you make space for them when the ground is paved?

At the Pocket Forests Tree Nursery in The Digital Hub, Catherine Cleary helped the 6th class of St. Audeon’s Primary School make a small worm farm that they could bring back to their school. They talked about worms and all the wonders they perform in soil. The worm farm will be used to compost small food scraps (apple cores, banana peels) in their school and will provide food to keep plants healthy. The worm farm was designed to be minimum maintenance and maximum awesomeness. The naming of the farm was the last step. ‘Tadhgh’s Tiny Town’ was considered the best name on the day and Tadhgh promised to take ownership of the farm in which an ‘inner city biodiversity hero’ is born.

About Pocket Forests

Pocket Forests is a social enterprise that helps communities to grow small native woodlands in urban areas. Founded by Dublin-based Catherine Cleary and Ashe Conrad-Jones in 2020, to date, Pocket Forests has planted 75 pocket forests, working with 40 different communities around the country. Since 2021, The Digital Hub has partnered with Pocket Forest providing an opportunity for The Digital Hub to showcase approaches on sustainability through green urban environments.

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Digital Hub Team