17/06/2026
🪱💚 From Worm Farm to Axolotl Food! 💚🪱
One of our Adventurous Me families recently welcomed a new pet axolotl into their home. As we learnt more about these fascinating creatures, we discovered that one of their favourite foods is worms!
Luckily, we already have our very own worm farm here at care it just needed some love.
Today we refreshed our worm farm by dampening the soil, giving everything a good turn, and topping it up with fresh leaves to create a healthy environment for our wriggly friends. To help get things started, our care family kindly purchased a box of African Nightcrawlers to add to the worm farm.
Over the coming weeks, the children will take on the important responsibility of caring for our worms. We will:
🪱 Feed them our fruit and vegetable scraps
🍂 Add leaves and bedding materials
💧 Collect and use the nutrient-rich worm wee in our garden
🌱 Observe and learn about the worm life cycle
🤎 Care for living things and understand their role in our environment
As our worm population grows, our care family will be able to take a small number of worms each week to help feed their axolotl, creating a wonderful real-life connection between our learning environment and home.
What a beautiful way to explore sustainability, responsibility, life cycles, and caring for living things while following the children’s interests and extending their learning beyond the walls of our service.
