Eurobodalla Shire Council has teamed up with Dirt Girl & Costa to celebrate composting!
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It’s National Composting Awareness Week this week and chances are, if you have a child in preschool, he or she may come home talking about “getting grubby” with Dirt Girl.
Council is providing access to an online “Get Grubby” learning package from Dirt Girl World that is being used by early learning centres across Eurobodalla.
Dirt Girl dances and sings her way through different subjects like recycling, worms and growing veggies, but this week it’s all about compost.
“Costa the Composter” has also been roped into getting grubby and the “Compost Rocks!” campaign.
“Compost Rocks! is all about how amazing compost is,” Costa said.
“Recycling your food and garden organics (that’s anything that was once alive) is one of the greatest favours you can do the planet. It reduces landfill and turns organics into fantastic, delicious plant food – compost!
“It’s an amazing way to put nutrients back into our soil – it’s the ultimate recycling!”
The program is delivered online and includes a brand new series of 10 webisodes featuring Dirtgirl, Scrapboy and Costa singing, dancing, joking and even rapping about compost.
It is also home to ‘Costa’s Compost Academy’ – comprising a blog of tips and hints, piles of downloadable resources, a compost directory, calendar of events, links to social media and a heap of “missions compostable” and competitions, with some great prizes to be won.
Members of the Academy will learn everything about compost: what it is, how it’s made, how to use it and why it’s so good for the planet.
Enrolment is free and open to everyone at www.compostrocks.com.au
Council runs community composting workshops, but Dirt Girl is our partner at the grassroots level in preschools, helping the future caretakers of the planet learn about the great things that compost does.
Broulee Long Day Care recently had a session on composting when they set up their bin for their garden.
If you want to know more about Dirt Girl World’s “Get Grubby” you can visit Council’s website at www.esc.nsw.gov.au and go out and “get grubby” with your kids.
