(Well, actually I think it was Andrew and Diane’s idea really.)

An idea that really fits into not wasting anything !

A real ‘natures natural cycle’ idea.

Oh, there you go again, I hear you complaining, will you get on with it, what idea !!

Well, I don’t know – some people are so impatient.

Their wonderfully simple idea was this, you collect all that waste paper offices generate ( and boy, do offices generate waste paper) and then just make probably the best compost in the world out of it.

Just so, so simple really – well it is when you add loads of hard work, and a million or so worms !

Since Jeremy’s ‘retirement’ I have been trialling so many different sorts of compost I really had begun to despair of finding a peat free substitute combining lightness with all the natural essentials.
Then we met this lovely family who farm deep in the heart of Herefordshire.

Andrew has a weekly ‘paper round’ collecting waste paper from offices round and about Herefordshire.

The companies he collects from really reduce their waste and are assured of confidential shredding - and the worms can’t read – while knowing they are helping the environment.

A real win, win situation for them.

( If you would like to be included on his paper round, just let me know and I will pass it on.)

This is the first stage after Andrews collected the paper. They chop it all up to make it ‘digestible’.

And also very suitable for all year round ‘snow’ balling.

Edi’s bucket is there because she came out to collect chicken’s eggs – she really has no time for all this picture taking.

There, that’s better.

A girl has got to get her tea sorted out !

There, now where was I ? Well next they have to enlist some help.

Then get ‘cooking’, we need a feast fit for ..... WORMS !

All this so very natural waste going back into that wonderful cycle, natures natural cycle that is.

Didn’t I tell you it was a great idea ?

Really though the hard work is only just beginning.

Although the worms do need constant feeding, they do not rush to produce good wormcast compost.

Nature does not always see our need for speed, apart from when she’s producing weeds of course.

After about a year the bottom of the worm bed will have some lovely stuff – trouble is you have to take the top off to get it !

Well, nothing that’s good comes that easily.

( That’s a bit of a depressing thought really.)

I do get such a kick out of seeing how they are making such really wonderful stuff so naturally.

It just seems so right, so real, this natural, sustainable compost.

What Diane and Andrew are doing is taking man made waste, and using a natural cycle to change it into the best possible sustainable nourishment.

For your plants, your soil.

It’s that old as time ‘ Natural Cycle’ coming to our rescue again !
Oh sorry, came over all poetic then – I do promise not to let it happen too often !

Because poetic is fine, but it does no good without hard work.
Even after Andrew has dug out all of that rich, fecund ( what a lovely word ) wormcast, some more effort is required.

Wormcast is really wonderful stuff, full of everything your plants need, but it’s a bit, well, “claggy” (another lovely word.)

To enable easy potting, easy use generally really, it could do with lightening.
Could do with letting a bit of air in !

Well they have just the stuff, another waste product, another natural bounty ( sorry, is that poetic ?)
This time it’s our old friend coir.
( You can check out our coir pots,our plugs, our BIG pots, our mulch mats, yep, we’re quite fans of Coir !)

Our coir, which Diane and Andrew use, is produced by our friends in Southern Sri Lanka.
I won’t bore you again about how all the ladies in the co-op simply got up and dusted themselves down after all the turmoil, and decided to work together.
What did they have to work with ?
All those waste coconut husks spread around the place.

They don’t need to be told not to waste things – what do they have to waste ?

( These fibres are not wasted either, look at our coir pots. )

We can offer this coir compost on it’s own, it is really good for seedlings, but it does not have all the nutrients that grown up plants need.

Add it to wormcast though, and the blending of it’s light airiness with the solid nutrition of the wormcast makes your plants stretch their roots in sheer ecstasy and grow man grow !

( Joe’s suggestion, I do find it best to humour him occasionally.)

I just know, and I’ve really tested it out, that it’s simply the best compost I have ever used.
Natural, sustainable, turning waste into the best growing medium.
Why would I ever use anything else ?

There is not a whole lot of Diane’s and Andrew’s natural wormcast compost available, so I’m really pleased that they let me offer it to you - and a little goes a long way.

30 Kilograms when packed, that’s about 60 Litres (which is heavy!) of
Wormcast and Coir Compost.

£11.80

We will ship this to you overnight - unless you order on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday that is !

( The couriers charge loads and loads for Saturday delivery, and do not work Sundays.)

However, sorry, sorry , sorry, but we have to ask you for a contribution towards the cost.

It’s £5.95 per bag, and honest, it costs us a lot more !