Last summer over 8,000 pounds of vegetables were grown at the Jackson Park and Washington Park community garden sites, the Cook County Sheriff's Garden and the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences. SOUL has reclaimed eight inner city lots in Chicago's Englewood community. Teachers' workshops for the Great Plant Escape Program are held in the fall. Worm Composting Wormania has infected 20 Chicago public school classrooms. Worms are being raised in plastic worm bins by inner city elementary school classrooms.
Kids love worms and worm composting shows recyling in action.
Young people feed the worms lunch scraps and two or three months later they are harvesting castings - worm compost. Teacher worm composting workshops are held in the fall. The Urban Programs Resource Network Website makes education from the University of Illinois Extension available without ever leaving home. With access to the World Wide Web, you can learn about lawn care, parenting, money management, pest control, nutrition, 4-H, school curricula and many other topics. Wolford has developed or assisted in the development of 16 websites.