Blog – Page 2

Compost superstars and the ongoing barrel experiment

20/04/2019

Yesterday I paid a visit to long time HCC contributors, Chris and Leigh in Gunghalin. But isn’t Gunghalin outside of the HCC collection area? That’s true, but Chris and Leigh happen to be...

Trike trial!

14/04/2019

Howdy HCCers, meet Peter (he’s the taller one): Peter and his family have their own compost bin but have also been contributing scraps to the HCC for quite a while now. Peter has also donated...

Heap refresh and new leaf store

08/04/2019

They say change is as good as a holiday. In this case it was the main compost heap that got a holiday, while Scott and I got a work out. Seeing as the wooden composting bays were getting a bit of a...

Compost in barrels – composting in barrels?

31/03/2019

What is compost anyway? Can you throw some veggie scraps and dry leaves in a barrel and call it compost? Will appropriate composting processes occur in the revolutionary new composting device that is...

HCC – for small buckets of scraps with nowhere else to go

28/03/2019

HCCers meet Cass in Watson! Cass is a member of the HCC ‘targeted demographic’ as she lives in apartment with limited space for gardening or otherwise playing with soil etc. Before I was...

A cosy autumn morning for the second HCC open day

24/03/2019

Just last week I was joking with a workmate about how ‘it never rains in Hackett’ but I guess the joke was on me this morning as it rained this morning only during the HCC open day and not...