With three marvellous groups from Nailsworth – Beavers, Cubs and Scouts – we looked into wormeries, we made compost bins, we looked at the details of the wonderful worms and other ‘critters’ in the compost that make great soil, and drew them....
Celebrate and work together to raise public awareness on why we all should be composting our organics recycling and using compost – to regenerate our gardens, our soil, help life in the soil and save carbon to save our earth
It is time to celebrate the diversity of Life in the Soil – how important this is to the health of our plants, our health, and the health of the planet. Research has for years shown that heavy fertilised non-organic arable soils have less biodiversity and are...
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...
Allotment holders and some members of Bisley Climate Action Network (BisCAN) gathering in the sunshine on Saturday 14 August for the annual allotment gathering “Plotting for the Future – the contribution of growing to our sustainable future” at which...
BCCS has many visits by researchers, community groups and others, and on Tuesday 27th July the Garden Waste team of North Somerset Council came to us and South Cerney CC as part of their research into community composting schemes, considering the issues and potential...
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.
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...
Many gardeners are still swayed, by advertising and easy availability, to buy commercial peat-based potting and seed composts. There is no need to do this. You can buy good commercial peat free composts such as Sylvagrow and Dalefoot, or, even better, you can make...
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...
