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Welcome to The Compost Bin, which contains my musings on my life and things which interest me.

I live in Herefordshire with my husband and daughter; we have 4 acres of land which contains a woodland, polytunnel, small orchard, garden and veg plot. We grow our own organic produce and make lots of cider, wine, jam and chutney. We also make a lot of compost. We share our lives with 12 Chickens, 3 Cats, 3 Guinea Pigs and assorted wildlife. We try our best to live a more self reliant lifestyle, growing and making and fixing and mending and re-using and re-cycling stuff, if we can.

I now work as a freelance environmental educator/forest school leader and community artist; I also spend a lot of time volunteering as a Master Composter and Master Gardener, helping people make compost and grow veg at home or at school. I used to be a Research Scientist, but that was many years ago.

I started blogging because I love to write about the things which interest me. Whether it's something I have done in the garden, an article for a magazine, a review of websites or equipment I use, a training course I have attended or "just" my daily routine - I love to write.

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Monday, 11 August 2008

Monday musings

Well I am very excited today as my new dehydrator has arrived!
So far today Compostgirl and I have prepared a load of Basil and Parsley for drying


halved a lot of cherry tomatoes
and prepared Courgette thins.

Compostgirl is VERY excited about all this! ( and so am I)

The dehydrator is doing its stuff now!
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4 comments:

  1. Wow that's great - I'd like a dehydrator (I love kitchen gadgets) but the current budget says "no". I have however, seen how to make a DIY one in the Organic Gardening Magazine so I'm off to grovel to Simon .......

    Rosie x

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  2. Saw that too and sweriously thought about it BUT we need to dehydrate stuff NOW , not " when Compostman gets the time to make one..."

    as he is SO busy.....

    Also when he DOES build one, it will get use as well as we have LOADS of stuff to preserve.

    Just finished a batch of "sun dried" tomatoes and am bottling them in olive oil....

    yum!

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  3. WOW thats a sexy looking dehydrator, mine is round and looks similar to a steamer.
    I am watching and waiting for my tomatoes to ripen to dry them, just out of interest how long did your cherry tom halves take?
    Liz

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  4. Cherry toms seemed to take a long time? about 14 hours...but it has been raining non stop here for all that time so humidity was high ( which makes a difference)


    I AM impressed with it already!

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