The Compost Bin: Hen Pheasant

Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically and to Permaculture principles, which we share with Chickens, Cats and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!

I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.

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Thursday 1 May 2008

Hen Pheasant

Compostman has been cutting down the nettles around the edge of the fences recently and whilst strimming a huge clump on the very oldest compost heap...he startled a hen pheasant....and THIS is what she was sitting on.....

He had cut down most of a substantial nettle thicket, so the nest was now rather exposed. This was obviously a worry, so I put a small plastic table over the nest in the hope the hen would return and carry on sitting on her nest.