{"id":18862,"date":"2022-11-25T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/?p=18862"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T11:07:55","slug":"sunce-for-sunce-composting-in-a-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/news\/sunce-for-sunce-composting-in-a-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunce for Sunce &#8211; composting in a jar!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a rainy day full of the southern sun, Sunce educators headed to kindergarten<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/usluge\/edukacija-odgojitelja-i-djece-na-temu-ekoloskog-i-odrzivog-razvoja-u-cilju-unaprjedenja-usluga-za-djecu-ranog-i-predskolskog-odgoja-za-dv-trogir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sunce<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>\u017dedno<\/strong><\/a>, to hold a workshop for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-second-workshop-had-the-topic-of-composting\">The second workshop had the topic of Composting.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As the kindergarten has no green areas around the building, we made a compost bin in a glass jar with the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"18852\" src=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221122_095334.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221122_095334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221122_095334-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221122_095334-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"18849\" src=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/317004699_472539734766566_3768017666309442816_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/317004699_472539734766566_3768017666309442816_n.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/317004699_472539734766566_3768017666309442816_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/317004699_472539734766566_3768017666309442816_n-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We took all the material with us: glass jars, twigs, dry leaves, soil and leftover biowaste. Stacking the small composters looked like this: we put twigs at the bottom to create an airy space to aerate the compost heap. After that, we put dry leaves, then a row of soil and biowaste. There was carrot and mandarin peel and some arugula leaf. We covered everything with a layer of soil, and since the soil was a little wet, we ended up with a layer of paper leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We made the lid of paper and poked a few holes with pencils so the compost heap could breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"18858\" src=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/316305612_1508624072970173_4506344397610052613_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/316305612_1508624072970173_4506344397610052613_n-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/316305612_1508624072970173_4506344397610052613_n-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/316305612_1508624072970173_4506344397610052613_n-1-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"18860\" src=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0917.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0917.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0917-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0917-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We marked the height of our compost pile with a permanent marker so that they could monitor the decomposition. The children&#8217;s task is to observe the volume of their compost pile once a week, sprinkle it with water if the pile is dry and shake the jar to aerate the compost pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As all the pieces of fruit and vegetables were finely chopped, we hope to see significant changes in a month!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture1-1.png 605w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture1-1-548x300.png 548w, https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture1-1-500x274.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a rainy day full of the southern sun, Sunce educators headed to kindergarten\u00a0Sunce,\u00a0\u017dedno, to hold a workshop for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,5],"tags":[814],"class_list":["post-18862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-of-educators-and-children-on-the-topic-of-ecological-and-sustainable-development-to-improve-services-for-children-in-early-and-preschool-education-for-dv-trogir","category-news","tag-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21385,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862\/revisions\/21385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}