Worms eat food scraps like fruit and vegetable peels and leaves. They are healthy to eat because they are high in protein. Worms are also important because they consume food waste and turn it into compost for plants. The document suggests that a school could get a worm farm to reduce waste and provide compost for school gardens. Some people eat worms at a festival in New Zealand.

1. WORMS FOR DINNER
By Ben

2. CONTENTS
What they eat.
Why are worms healthy for you ?
Worms are important.
Why should the school look at getting a worm farm ?
Where do people eat worms ?
Photo page.
Quiz/Quiz answers.
The ending.

3. What they eat
• Worms eat scraps like banana peels,
kiwi fruit peels and orange peels
• Worms also eat leaves from trees.

4. Why are worms healthy for you?
Worms are healthy for you to eat
because they have lots of Protein in
them.

5. Worms are important.
Worms are important because they eat up food scraps
and turn them into compost for our plants.

6. Why should the school look at
getting a worm farm ?
• The school should look at getting a worm farm
because then we would have compost for our plants
at school.
• We should have a worm farm at our school because
we would have healthy plants in our gardens.
• It would reduce the amount of rubbish that we put in
the bins.

7. Where do people eat worms
People eat worms in HoKitika wild food
festival on the West Coast of New
Zealand.

8. Quiz
Why are worms healthy for you?
Why are worms important ?
What do worms eat ?

9. quiz answers
Worms are healthy for you because they
have lots of protein.
Worms are important because they make
compost for our plants.
Worms eat scraps.