Apr 30, 2023
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Aug 23, 2021
Peat is widely used in potting composts of all kinds and also by commercial nurseries etc that grow and sell plants in pots. But peat is a resource that renews itself very slowly and peat bogs store and sequester large amounts of carbon dioxide. Extracting peat...
Jul 22, 2021
On Saturday we were visited again by students on the Stroud Permaculture Course, eager to learn about BCCS as an example of a local community run recycling scheme and a prime example of the circular economy in action.
Jul 13, 2021
We have been able to empty a compost bin and have another sieving session, so we now have sieved compost for sale again at the usual price of £3 per 30 litre bag, or 4 bags for £10. Although our sieved compost store is full, we doubt that stocks will last more than 2...
May 13, 2021
Demand for our sieved compost has been very high recently, so on Tuesday we had another sieving session, only about a month after the last one. In this session we sieved almost all of our remaining stock of compost, but it means that we’ll continue to have...
