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It's big and it smells funny. It can grow up to 3 feet long, and it lives in North American. I remember reading about the Palouse worm when studying worms while writing the story of Winnie Finn. Very few people have ever seen one. They may become the first earthworm to make the endangered species list.
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Lots of classrooms and schools have a worm composting operation going on. I had no idea until I met teacher and author Deb Gonzales, who kept a composting bin right in her own classroom in Texas! I found out soon afterward, through another teacher friend named Kathy Doherty, that her school in Tinley Park, Illinois, also has a worm farm--Tinley Park, why, that's right around the corner from where I used to live. Worms are everywhere!

I stumbled upon this while walking through the campus of the University of Ottawa recently. They have quite a large operation here!