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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Saturday, 1 February 2014

Yuck what a fowl day

Ha ha did you get my pun in the title!?

Today was really horrible weather but the feathery ladies and the cockerel brothers needed cleaning out so, despite it  being only 3 Celsius mid afternoon and pouring with rain I set to,  to make them cleaner and more comfortable.

If we have animals we have to look after them, despite the horrible weather and our deep desire to just hide inside and drink hot tea and do crochet in front of the wood burner




Mud and water every where


So I togged up in waterproof coat, wellies and a lot of layers of clothes underneath.  As I normally am mostly impervious to the worst the weather can throw at me and wear a t shirt and jeans in the most wet and horrible weather, this will give you an idea of howreally horrible working outside was today.








After a lot of mucking out, the contents of the hen run and hen houses were added to the compost bins


 Creosote the cockerel was not impressed!


Normally I am much tidier with the bedding, but frankly in this weather I could not give a damn about spilled straw!


And the chickens were very pleased with the clean arrangements!
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4 comments:

  1. Frugal in Derbyshire 5 February 2014 at 09:55

    oooh you have shamed me! I WILL clean out the bigger hen house today!
    It's just so much hard work when walking through thick mud.
    Gill

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  2. Compostwoman5 February 2014 at 11:50

    Its all soggy again now!

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  3. The Squirrel Family6 February 2014 at 13:55

    Pushing the wheelbarrow is fun here in the mud ....not good for my poor back

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    1. Compostwoman6 February 2014 at 14:14

      Nor mine - there are slabs down by the run door but not over to the compost area

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