Jason Lange from Atlas Soils shares his inspirational story of rethinking waste management and making healthy soils.

Sustainability Experiment Overview:

♻️The milk bottle was cut in half and repurposed for the experiments.

🍌Banana Peel, Watermelon rind, and Veggie scraps were put into milk cartons with Humisoil and Humiliquid. Temperature was measured, using Tiny Science Lab digital thermometers, before and after Humisoil was included with scraps. 

Born in another country, Palestine, Huda overcame many barriers in her life including speaking English as her second language, socio economic challenges and disengagement from school. Huda overcame these challenges to be a Changemaker, in her 5th year of study medicine at James Cook University. 💫A true inspiration for the girls💫

Communication and Story Telling Workshop Keesha Morikei-Booth

The Food Scraps Tests

The temperature, nitrate and nitrite, pH phosphate levels were measured of the decomposing food waste.

Grass Clipping Tea

STEM Changemakers also set up experiments to test nutrient release from grass clippings.

Girls working on getting out of their comfort zone, exploring their mindset and growing their resilience with GRIT Mindset

Phosphate, Nitrate and pH tests were taken of our food scrap samples.