May 29, 2024
Membership renewals will be issued in June. You will have until the end of June to renew so don’t be anxious. The new code will change & be given to new members on 1st July.
May 8, 2024
We are excited to hear that we are finalists in TWO sections of the SN&J Community Awards this year – the Environment Section and the Neighbourly Section. Keep your fingers crosse on June 20th when a few of us brave the final jury!!finalist logo...
Apr 30, 2024
Celebrate International Compost Awareness Week next week by making more compost, and giving life and food to your soil by mulching with Bisley Community Compost – and try No Dig – or Low Dig – Give worms a chance, let them dance!
Mar 4, 2024
The wonderful willow hedge that camouflages BCCS’s container was pruned mid-February. The finer prunings were used for two over-subscribed Willow Weaving Workshops in Bisley village. Our Wonderful Willow Weavers were led by artist Norah Kennedy, and produced...
Jan 16, 2024
The willow that camouflages our BCCS container is to have its biennial prune. It will be cut by our wonderful shredding team so willow worker Norah Kennedy can use the stems to lead two workshops in Bisley that will benefit our birds. Weave willow bird feeders, tables...
Nov 13, 2023
In rainy weather 15 North Somerset Master Composters visited BCCS and we explained our history, our site, and ways of composting, especially including our Compost Demonstration site (with a wormery, ‘bindweed’ composting ball, and other types of home...
Nov 4, 2023
Local gardening writer Sue Bradley will be describing the community composting scheme in the revived Amateur Garden magazine. Several allotment holders gathered to describe how they used the compost and what it has meant for their allotment plots. Above all free...
Oct 3, 2023
Congratulations to Stroud’s new local community composting scheme in Brimscombe and Thrupp! Patience, courage and optimism have been essential ingredients in the long running efforts by a group of stalwart enthusiasts to get Stroud’s newest community...
Sep 6, 2023
BCCS shared Village Fete Stalls in Bisley, Oakridge and Eastcombe with Bisley Climate Action Network. Composting and community compost helps to keep carbon in the soil, especially if you follow No Dig Gardening practice and so support the aims of BisCAN....
Sep 6, 2023
Chestergate allotments celebrated “Grow Healthier Soil, Healthier Food, Healthier Wildlife” during National Allotments Week 2023 on Saturday 12th August. At our “Get Together” hardy allotment holders braved the rain and wind and discussed...
