Apr 20, 2023
International Compost Awareness Week 2023 is May 7-13th. For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food – COMPOST! BCCS has a great supply of unsieved compost available – come, bring your spade and bags and a but of cash for a small donation every Saturday open...
Nov 5, 2022
Bags of leaf mould now ready from BCCS. Leaf mould makes a fantastic winter mulch for your soil – protects it, nutures it, and encourages the fungi that benefits the “soil web” and life in the soil. Garden Organic explain the science of leaf mould...
Oct 28, 2022
Join BCCS and other ‘hands in the soil groups (including farmers) at Stroud Valleys Project “World Beneath our Feet” – a soil day bonanza. Talks, stalls and lots of information (as well as good food and drinks(!) available at Stroud Brewery on...
Oct 28, 2022
Autumn sunshine welcomed 12 Cranham Scouts Beavers group and their Leaders and parents to BCCS to find all about compost and especially the biodiversity in the soil. Most of their parents already made compost and many knew about growing their own vegetables so they...
Sep 27, 2022
BCCS celebrates Great Green Week with bags of sieved compost ready to go (£3 per bag or 4 for £10), and a pile of unsieved compost free to Bisley allotment holders, and to others for a small donation. We are also:- -Hosting parish councillors and allotment holders...
Aug 27, 2022
This week saw, finally, the wider public announcement that peat will be banned from retail outlets for 2024. We welcome this BUT it has taken since 2009 – the first government consultation – and their urge to us all to take voluntary action with no...
May 11, 2022
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....
Apr 26, 2022
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
Dec 5, 2021
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...
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...
