Last week's batch is from the Town Hall #Compost, still quite active, but we have food scraps incoming and need the room! Will rest it for a few weeks while the process winds down.
Since this one is for filling up raised beds and topping up our food gardens, it has been screened through a 20mm mesh. Our new screening table, build from salvaged trestle table parts and an old shopfitting display is working a treat. Removing a few fruit stickers and rubber bands as we screen #sayNoToFruitStickers
We turned out this lovely batch of dark, well-matured #compost, absolutely chocka with #worms at the Derby Street #FoodForest in #Kensington3031.
Now loaded into a wool pack, stored under salvaged hessian coffee sacks (to retain moisture), and ready for the community gardeners to help themselves to as we head towards Spring.
Removed a few plastic contaminants, but very little overall. It is always a good idea to #sayNoToFruitStickers. Great to see!
Please remember to remove your fruit stickers.
No one needs this in our compost!
Either take them off at the shop (maybe find somewhere convenient to stick them), or take them off when you put your groceries away at home. Much easier than digging through soggy peels and food scraps, and much better chance they won’t end up as toxins in our local food systems for generations to come!
As composters, we work to feed soil for local food systems. Every week we try to remove as many fruit stickers as we can. These don’t become plant nutrients like the food scraps they come attached to. They persist in soil, get harder to remove with every year that passes, and ultimately are passed back into our food as toxic chemicals.
Please remove stickers and other plastic contaminants before sending your organics to compost.
What are you feeding the soil?
Kensington Compost Network