For three years, a local farmer has been teaching elementary school students in Lyme how to transform lunch leftovers into plant food. This year, she鈥檒l be expanding her composting program across the Region 18 school district.
Baylee Drown, co-owner of Long Table Farm in Lyme, doesn鈥檛 want the kids from Lyme Consolidated School to have to return to throwing their uneaten food in the trash when they make the transition to grade six at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School in Old Lyme.聽鈥淕oing to the middle school should not be a step back for sustainability,鈥� she said in a phone interview this week.
Superintendent of Schools Ian Neviaser, from his office in Center School before Wednesday鈥檚 start of school, said Lyme-Old Lyme Schools are committing to growing the composting program. The district includes four schools in Old Lyme and the single elementary school in Lyme. 鈥淲e have very little food waste from the cafeteria itself, but from student lunches we have quite a bit of food waste,鈥� he said. 鈥淪o if a student doesn鈥檛 finish their lunch, instead of throwing it out, we鈥檙e now going to be composting that.鈥�
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