compost

We are currently looking for farms interested in taking food waste compost based around Hertfordshire.

7 Soil health mantras to follow on your farm Insights from Niels Corfield, Soil Health Advisor How do you build soil health? Below we share the six soil health principles to follow on your farm. Implementing farming practises and any new ideas which encompass as many of these principles as...

Welcome to the fifth instalment of our Know your Soils series sharing practical tips for monitoring the soil health on your land. Keep an eye out for our bitesize videos and fact sheets on simple tests you can do yourself on farm. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Can your soil...

We are a micro brewery operating in Blackpool, Lancashire. We produce between 200 to 400kg of malt per week as a by-product of the brewing process. It is free to take away for anyone who wants it. It consists of grains that we have added hot water to in order to extract the sugars. What is...

Morning all, I've a query on compost that I'd appreciate views on. Our heavy clay loam soil has had the straw on two out of three crops removed for the past 25 years and our soil organic content is pretty low as a result. Our yields reflect that (our first wheats achieve what our neighbours'...

Hi I have a small microbrewery and we produce a fair amount of grain. I'm looking for someone to take it off my hands, it's free as long as you can pick it up from where I am, Balsall Heath in birmingham. I have used it for compost myself and at my friends allotment and it works great. Some...

Notice several threads here which are exploring the SFI (Soil Food Web) approach with compost, compost teas, etc. We've just run one course in Somerset with Zach Wright, who is one of the three SFI soil consultants and it went very well. We've got another scheduled for 18-20 April. Short...