Justine McKeen, Queen of Green by Sigmund Brouwer

Author:Sigmund Brouwer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2011-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

“Little white worms that turn into flies,” Justine said. “They are really good for wounds that are infected. You put maggots on a wound and they eat all the decaying flesh.”

“Nice,” Michael said. “And by nice, I mean not so nice.”

“Follow me,” Justine said.

She took Michael and Safdar into the garage. There was a big plastic bucket on the floor. It had lots of holes drilled into it. It was filled with brown stuff. It wasn’t smelly. But it had lots of little white things crawling around the top.

“This is our compost bin,” Justine said. “Grammy and I throw our soft garbage into it. Things like vegetable peels and eggshells, coffee grounds and tea bags, scrapings from our plates and—”

“Getting the picture,” Michael said.

“Later,” she said, “we can use the compost as fertilizer. For the project at Ice-Cream Heaven.”

Safdar leaned over and watched all the maggots squirming on top. “Cool! When do they turn into flies and fly away?”

“Oh, they will fly away.” Justine laughed. “But they will have help.”

She dragged the compost bin out of the garage and away from the house. She led Michael and Safdar back into the house where they could watch the bin from the front window.

“It should only take a minute,” she said.

She was right. About a minute later, several birds swooped down and began pecking at the compost.

“See,” she said. “The maggots are flying away. It’s the natural way to get rid of pests.”

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