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Tools & Mowers
Accu Bush Trimmer 240ABT- $60 (plus S&H)
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Accu Hedge Trimmer 420AHS-$139 (plus S&H)
• 60 minute run time
• weight 5.5 pounds
• 16.5 inch bar
• two-hand safety switch, quick blade stop
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PowerAccu 24-$89 (plus S&H)
• 24 Volt, 2 Ah
• weight 3 pounds
• charges in 18-24 hours
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Luxus 38 - $199 (plus S&H)
Engineering excellence in a human-powered implement. Light and easy to push with no need for gas, oil or electricity.
• Contact-free cutting system, precision ground flame hardened bearing mounted blades
• Cutting height: 14-45 mm (.5-1.8 in.) easily adjusted, indicators both sides
• Large hood protects overhanging flowers and shrubs
• Rigid ergonomic handle with foam grip
• Optional grass catcher available
• Mows a 15-inch swath at any height between 0.5 and 1.8 inches
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Grass Catcher - $45 (plus S&H)
• woven nylon with metal frame • weight 3 pounds
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Books
Compost, By Gosh!
A wonderful adventure where a young girl and her Mom convert a storage box to house their new pets, pets with a purpose. The box becomes a vermicomposting bin and the pets are redworms. Poetic, rhyming couplets provide a grand explanation of the process of vermicomposting in a manner that the youngest reader/listener will enjoy, which is supported by adorable illustrations. The book ends with How To and Resources sections to encourage further exploration of vermicomposting. 
Author: Written and Illustrated by Michelle Eva Portman
Level: ages 4-94
Specs: 42 pps, hardbound, 6 3/8" by 8 3/4", full color, step by step HOW TO Instructions and Resources
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Worms Eat My Garbage: How to setup & maintain a vermicomposting system
The definitive guide to vermicomposting--a process using redworms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich food for plants. Provides complete illustrated instructions on setting up and maintaining small-scale worm composting systems. Internationally recognized, the author has worked with worms for nearly three decades. Topics include different bins, what kind of worms to use, sex life of a worm, preparing worm beddings, how to meet the needs of the worms, what kinds of foods to feed the worms, harvesting worms, and making potting soil from the vermicompost produced. Second edition.
Author: Mary Appelhof
Level: Grade 5 through adult
Specs: Paperback, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 162p, 50 illus by Mary Frances Fenton. Glossary, index, 63p bibliography, 24 annotated references. Flower Press.
ISBN: 0-942256-10-7
Price: $12.95
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Worms Eat Our Garbage: Classroom Activities for a Better Environment
This curriculum uses over 150 worm-related classroom or home activities to develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills in children grades 4-8. Activities integrate science, mathematics, language arts, biology, solid waste issues, ecology, and the environment. 
Author: Mary Appelhof, Mary Frances Fenton, and Barbara Loss Harris
Level: Grades 4-8
Specs: Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11, 232p, 16 appendices, resource materials, teacher's guidelines, bibliography, glossary, index.
ISBN: O-942256-05-0
Price: $22.95
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The Worm Cafe: Mid-scale Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes
This manual describes how a teacher and her students developed a system to compost lunchroom waste with worms and save their school $6000 per year. How they performed a waste audit, garnered support from school personnel. Discusses bins, bedding, maintenance, harvesting and using castings in the school garden. Contains earthworm diagrams, bulletin board materials, quizes, letter to parents, charts, and dozens of resources.
Author: Binet Payne
Specs: Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11, 180p, 7 appendices, annotated references, bibliography, index. Flower Press.
ISBN: 0-942256-11-5
Price: $29.95
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Wonderful Worms
Selected by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council as an outstanding science trade book for children, this book for very young children emphasizes the below ground view to describe where earthworms live, what they eat, how they move, and how they change things to make the earth richer. 
Author: Linda Glaser
Level: Lower elementary
Specs: Paperback, 8 3/4 x 9, 29p, illus by Loretta Krupinski. Millbrook Press.
ISBN: 1-56294-730-3
Price: $8.95
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Pee Wee's Great Adventure: A Guide to Vermicomposting
The adventures of Pee Wee, the red wiggler worm, who lives in a compost pile with other composting creatures. They include a sowbug, millipede, beetle, springtail and others. Introduces the concept of vermicomposting in a bin, sorting worm castings from a classroom worm bin at school. Good list of vermicomposting resources on the web.
Author: Larraine Roulston
Level: Elementary
Specs: Stapled, 6 1/2 x 8, 25p, glossary, resources
ISBN: 0-9697883-1-2
Price: $5.00
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Wormology
A charming, informative, beautifully illustrated book for youngsters that combines cartoons, charts, good line art, and beautiful photographs with accurate text. Leads children through scientific methodology, worm anatomy, predation and fun experiments to learn a lot about worms with curiosity as the driving motivation.
Author: Michael Eisohn Ross 
Level: Elementary, junior high
Specs: Paperback, 9 1/4 x 8 1/4, 47p, illus by Darren Erickson, photographs by Brian Grogan. Glossary, index. Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
ISBN: 0-57505-168-0
Price: $6.95
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Wormania! (VHS)
Worm Woman visits the Brennan kids who are busily involved in their daily lives. They learn about worms--how they move, their role in soil ecology, how worms breed, and how to set up a worm bin for composting organic waste. Video incorporates unique footage of worms in their natural habitat, and shows amazing microscopic images of the beating of a worm's five pairs of hearts and a baby worm hatching from its cocoon.
Producer: Flowerfield Enterprises
Level: Elementary through adult
Specs: VHS, 26 min, with 48p teaching guide
ISBN: 0-942256-09-3
Price: $34.90
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Green Fingers (VHS/DVD)
Directed by: Joel Hirschman
Hardened prisoners improve their dismal existence when they discover the wonders of gardening. Clive Owen plays Colin Briggs A prison inmate with a green thumb who goes on to compete in a national gardening competition. Helen Mirren plays Georgina.
Based on a true story.
Green Fingers 2000
Comedy/Drama
Aprox. 91 minutes runtime.
Specs: VHS, 91 min also available in DVD.
Price: $15.90
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Worm Bin Creatures Alive Through a Microscope (VHS)
This captivating video zeroes in on the tiny organisms often seen but rarely identified in a worm bin. Under Warren's microscope, well-lit colorful, and in focus, busy little creatures such as springtails and mites amuse and entertain as they busily go about in search of food or shelter. Concise, interesting, and informative narration makes this video not only fun to watch, but another excellent teaching tool for all ages.
Producer: Warren Hatch, distributed by Flowerfield Enterprises
Level: Middle-school through adult
Specs: VHS, 31 min
ISBN: 0-884195-35-0
Price: $25.00
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Leaf Composting
Backyard gardeners construct a 5 1/2 foot high compost pile of leaves from seven oak trees, using horse manure as a nitrogen source. Perforated pipes provide continuous aeration, thereby eliminating the need for turning the pile. The gardeners spread finished compost in their garden at the end of fourteen weeks. Narration presents principles of composting including the need for moisture, nitrogen, oxygen, and a variety of materials. 
Subtitle: featuring Mary Appelhof with Mary Frances Fenton
Producer: Macatawa Productions
Level: Teen to Adult
Specs: Video, VHS, 28 min.
ISBN:
Price: $25.00
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