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.


To learn more about us click on the About Compostwoman tab and remember to click on the photos to make them full size!


Monday 14 July 2014

Garden Organic Masters Conference June 21st 2014

(While I am still convalescing, a post from the weekend before The Blandford Fly incident.)



What a way to spend the Solstice :)

Up early at silly o'clock and did the chickens and watered the polytunnel, then set off to drive to Ryton to spend the day at Garden Organic HQ





 Lots of Master Composter and Master Gardener friends to catch up with

 

Laverstock Farm shop

 

excellent plants grown by a local organic community interest company - I bought several perennials.





 The fabulous gardens


My first workshop choice - a tour of the Heritage Seed Library polytunnels and gardens and a tutorial on how to save seed.




More gardens - I had a lovely wander around. This is looking one way over the perennial flower meadow


Looking the other way...




Close up of a ?Jerusalem Sage? flower


 And finally a panoramic view of the whole gigantic flower bed. Click on the photo to get the full glory of it!







 Of course, we had cake - wouldn't be a conference without cake!



After tea and cake, we had a tour of 5 Acre Farm, CSA and box scheme based at Ryton. Very interesting to see how they do it and what they were growing.



 My final workshop was about helping to attract insects into the garden and identifying them once you have attracted them. Very informative and interesting.



The conference finished at 5 pm and I arrived back home at 8 pm, hot and tired after a very long day, to sit and enjoy my own garden with a cold drink!

I recommend a trip to Garden Organic Ryton, always inspiring and full of good ideas.
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2 comments:

  1. Unknown23 July 2014 at 04:09

    I hope your feeling better now. I'd never heard of such a fly and couldn't believe the damage it did. I'm glad your posting again I've missed you x

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    1. Compostwoman23 July 2014 at 15:00

      Ah thank you Julee :) I have missed being able to blog - hope to be doing more now :)

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