Home Composting Masterclass with Nicky Scott

Saturday 15 March 2025: Home Composting Masterclass from 1-4pm at the SSB’s new home compost demonstration site at the Marsh Compost Site (Exeter Road South Brent TQ10 9QF – adjacent to South West Water’s site).

This your chance to learn all you ever wanted to know about compost – and more! Sustainable South Hams ‘compost mentors’ ‘Dr Compost’, *Nicky Scott and Mel Harvey will will guide you through different methods of home composting and the pros and cons of each.

Learn about home composting methods such as ‘daleks’, ‘green cones’, ‘tumblers’, ‘bokashi’, ‘hot heaps’ and ‘biochar’. We’ll take a specific look at what to do with woody offcuts and learn about the power of biochar.

Bring a sample of your own home compost and Nicky will make suggestions for how to improve it.

The event runs over 3 hours as there is so much to learn! Please bring your own notepads, cameras and ideally, a pop-up chair, plus lunch and snacks. There will be ample supplies of hot drinks. Although there is some shelter, the event will be held outside, so please dress accordingly. And there is a lovely compost loo on site!

The event is being run by Sustainable South Brent in collaboration with Sustainable South Hams and is made possible by the support of South Hams District Council.

Tickets are donation based (or free for exiting SSB Marsh volunteers (both compost and wood groups). To book your space go to Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/home-composting-masterclass-tickets-1217905220299

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*Nicky Scott has been around compost for most of his life from a Saturday job whilst still at school to coordinating the Devon Community Composting Network, employed by Devon Local Authorities. He’s been Chair of the Community Composting Network, is the founder of Proper Job in Chagford and a regular contributor to compost forums around the world. Nicky has written many books about composting, spoken at conferences here and abroad and runs innumerable compost workshops. Currently he is revising the third edition of ‘How to make and use Compost’ for Bloomsbury publications. Nicky has most recently worked with Sustainable South Hams to produce the booklet ‘Composting in the South Hams’.