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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Wednesday, 21 January 2015
In praise of the futility room :)
Now the porch is nice and clean and has dried out I can get started filling it up with seeds and plants and stuff :)
I am going to re pot all these geraniums as they are looking a bit sad. A bit of worm compost in the bottom of the pot and they will feel much better :)
It is too cold today to pot things up in the polytunnel so I have moved into the porch to work. Here is a christmas basket with two cyclamen waiting to be potted into seperate pots and given some tlc.
I also washed more gravel trays and seed modules in the futility* room - normally I do this work in the polytunnel but it is just too cold out there for me to work without my fingers seizing up. So I have come inside to do this job. Thank goodness we have a futility* room with a sink in!
It feels so good to be doing some gardening again :)
(It's a utility room, really. But I prefer to call it this as trying to keep it tidy is a futile task ;) )
Inspiring... Love it
ReplyDeleteCame across this 16 days #SaveOurFood campaign. Another way we all can build sustainable food systems. Here is the link to join and help Save our Food through this link www.rockethub.com/projects/52745
I always remember hearing Pam Ayres call such a space the 'futility' room. It was many years ago but I've never forgotten it.
ReplyDeleteWe have such a space but it is also our main entrance and it doesn't matter how hard I try, it becomes trashed on an almost daily basis :}