Once a week we will be featuring a fun and/or educational
activity you can try at home or in the classroom. This week the
writers on the Heifer Blog have been taking a look at coffee-
growing communities all over the world, where hunger and poverty
is a common problem. Heifer is helping these farmers by
diversifying their income and teaching them about our model for
sustainable community development. You can improve your own
sustainability and lessen the negative impact of throwing away
garbage that can be recycled. Try this experiment to see the
benefits for yourself, with coffee grounds and growing plants.
Do you (or anyone in your house) drink coffee? Many people who
do, throw the coffee grounds in the trash when they are done.
However, there are many ways you can recycle the grounds, like
as fertilizer to help your plants grow healthier and faster.
Besides the obvious benefits of recycling instead of throwing
away, you can use the natural fertilizer and cut down on the
costs of buying fertilizer from the s