Blog – Page 2

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...

Keep on turning for best compost and lowest greenhouse gas emissions

10/03/2019

Some people may be surprised by the quantity of kitchen scraps that the HCC heaps can process. The scraps from over 50 households are added to the heaps every week, along with a bunch of dry leaves...

Happenings at HCC

27/02/2019

It’s been pretty busy around HCC headquarters. Apart from the continual turning of the compost bays and running around collecting buckets I also had some very welcome guests over the last week. Jen...