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!


Saturday, 24 December 2022

Happy Aga day!

 Compostman has been calculating.

He has done the calculations, as have I, and despite the Aga costing ~£8 for a day of cooking and heating water etc for tomorrow, putting it on tonight, using it for slow roasting the Ribs of Beef, hot cooking the Roast Spuds and Yorkshires, cooking all the veg, reheating the Christmas pud, making hot drinks, AND heating the core of the house and bathroom, providing constant hot water AND drying endless loads of washing over it (that I haven't been able to do due to wet /cold weather)

Still means putting it on is actually MORE cost effective *this one occasion* than using Electric for cooking /oil fired boiler for heating and hot water/wood burner for heating. We get little benefit from Pv or Solar at this time of year. 

So, Back to being an Aga Christmas Day (it does cook stuff SO well, we used to use it a lot in Winter/Spring in our first decade here until we really cut down on oil consumption)



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