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POSTPONED: – Home Composting Masterclass with ‘Dr Compost’
23 November @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm GMT
This event has been postponed until new year, due to the forecast bad weather – if you would like to go on the waiting list please email info@sussh.org
Saturday 23 November 2024: Home Composting Masterclass from 10-3pm at the SSB’s new home compost demonstration site at the Marsh Compost Site (Exeter Road South Brent TQ10 9QF)
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 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.
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!
This all-day event is free for SSB Marsh volunteers (both compost and wood groups), who need to book on Eventbrite, as below, by 15th November. After that date, any spaces left out of the 20 available, will be available to other attendees, with tickets costing £20. The event runs over 5 hours as there is so much to learn!
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‘.
This event is being run by Sustainable South Hams in collaboration with Sustainable South Brent and is made possible by the support of South Hams District Council.
Book via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/home-composting-masterclass-tickets-1062112329569.
