lasagna gardening
n.— «Soil for a school garden was created on the property using a layering method called “lasagna gardening.” Newspapers that have been used for the Newspapers in Education program are soaked in water and spread on the garden for the first layer.» —“Community service lessons” Mining Journal (Marquette, Michigan) May 31, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...
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