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!


Showing posts with label helpful stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label helpful stuff. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

The Compost Bin features as a top 20 UK gardening blog.


I feel very pleased today :) I was asked a few weeks back if I could provide a seasonal gardening tip for Grabco, a grab hire and aggregate company based in the SE. I often get asked to do this, so I sent them a tip (compost related, of course) and thought no more about it :) Today  I have found I have been included in their Top 20 UK Gardening blogs :)

What Grabco say (link to article here)

Do you love gardening? We do! That is why we have picked our top 20 UK gardening blogs to share with you. Each of the blogs below contain wonderfully detailed posts on a range of gardening subjects so you will never again be short of inspiration! Also if you ever have a question you can't answer, chances are one of the blogs below already has your topic covered! We have also included social media and RSS links so that you can keep up to date with the gardening experts on our list.
We would also like to say a big thank you to the handful of bloggers who agreed to share an Autumn/Winter gardening tip exclusively with our website visitors! We would love to know your thoughts!
So here are (in no particular order) our top 20 UK gardening blogs that you MUST check out....
And then there are lots of lovely blogs to read - some are old friends - you will recognise their names from my sidebar over there -> but others are new to me so I have had a lovely time reading them :)

GRABCO are one of the leading suppliers in Essex, Hertfordshire and London for:
  • Grab Hire
  • Premium Topsoil and Compost
  • Sand and Gravel
  • Mini Digger and Dumper hire
  • Site Clearance and Groundworks


    Now, if any of you are wanting such services they have teamed up with The Compost Bin to offer you, my readers, the following special offers:

    15% off economy screened topsoil collected. Or we can deliver within 15miles of our yard.
    15% off sharp sand collected. Or we can deliver within 15miles of our yard.

    PLEASE CALL 01279 600 578 TO ORDER OR DISCUSS


If you are interested in this offer click through to the offer page using THIS LINK. No idea if any of you can use this offer and I am not involved in any way other than providing the link, but I thought some of you might find it helpful :) Enjoy :)

Thursday, 27 February 2014

A reminder about my "How to" guides


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Hello lovely people I have been tidying up a bit more on this blog and re reading old posts - gosh I have written a lot of stuff on here and you have all left some wonderful comments.

I have identified more posts which I think are useful or will answer questions you might have so I have added them to the "How to" guides.

Just to remind you all, just in case you didn't know, look up ^ and below the main header picture you will see a line of tabs, click on the "How to guides" tab and you will find the ( I hope!)  helpful articles I have written over the years on various subjects.

At this time of year the most useful for gardeners would probably be "Things to be doing in Dec/Jan" , "things to be doing in Feb",  "Starting Tomatoes, Peppers and Aubergine seeds (Feb)" and " Growing Potatoes in bags" The last one is for those with polytunnels or some sheltered indoor place - it is still a bit cold in my opinion to put potatoes outside. But if you want to try, feel free :)

There are also guides on composting (!) crafts and chicken keeping. If you find them helpful please leave a comment to let me know :)

Enjoy xxx



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