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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 11 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 used to be a Research Scientist, but that was many years ago. I now work as a freelance environmental educator/writer/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 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.

I hope you find something to interest you in The Compost Bin - remember to click on the photos to make them full size!

Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Tuesday update!

Today I have dried LOTS of tomatos, herbs and courgettes in my lovely new dehydrator....Cost 30 pence in electricity and made the same as (to buy) £8 worth of organic sun dried toms, £9 of organic herbs, unknown cost of dried courgettes....
It took a very long time to dry the half cherry tomatos, the slices were much quicker but they all tasted DELICIOUS!

I can see this piece of kit paying for itself VERY soon!!


Also bottled 5 L of Damson 2007 wine (hic) and for the eagle eyes amonst you , the labels were printed off on 31 July but we have only just got round to doing the job! ( Its like that here at Compost Mansions quite often!)
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2 comments:

  1. Wow that machine looks amazing and I think you will certainly make use of it. Is that all it cost in electricity to dry all of that?? How long did it take??

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  2. It took about 14 hours to dry the cherry toms Salena, and about 30 pence.....I was able to dry the herbs and the courgettes at the same time..they took much less time!

    IF I had just put in 3 trays of cherry toms I guess it might have been quicker though...I am experimneting with how ling and how much it dries at the moment!

    will let you know!

    Oh and the top is warm enough to prove bread rolls too!

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