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The Soil Factory Transforming your food scraps into living soil. Forest Row, UK

We’re looking for up to three volunteer directors to help shape what The Soil Factory becomes next.Our community compost...
16/09/2026

We’re looking for up to three volunteer directors to help shape what The Soil Factory becomes next.

Our community compost station in Forest Row is turning local food waste into living compost and we’re bursting with ideas about where this could all go.

But first we need more people around the table at Soil Factory HQ to help make it happen! Could this be you?

You might bring experience with projects, people, money or telling a good story. We’re looking for people who are excited by the vision and are willing to get stuck in.

Have a swipe, explore the roles via the link in our bio, and get in touch. You don’t need to know exactly where you fit yet.

And if someone potentially suitable comes to mind, please send them our way!

09/07/2026

Our first member compost return! 🌱

This is a quite but BIG moment for us at The Soil Factory.

Jo was one of the first people to join as a member, and she is now the first member to collect compost from the station.

This compost began as local food scraps, brought by members like Jo, tended at the station, tested (more on that next), matured, and now returned for our member community to use in their garden beds, planters and growing spaces.

It smells good. It feels good. It’s full of life. And it means our first loop is now complete!

We’re now inviting more Forest Row households and those in the surrounding area to become the next members, so we can bring more scraps into the system and make more compost locally.

There are only 15 spots available.

If you’re ready, follow our JOIN link in bio.

🌱 The Soil Factory will be at Mansion Market today! 11am-4pm.We’ll have freshly packed Living Soil, bulk buy offers, and...
09/05/2026

🌱 The Soil Factory will be at Mansion Market today! 11am-4pm.

We’ll have freshly packed Living Soil, bulk buy offers, and Lion’s Mane mushrooms from Flogs Fungi.

We’ll also be chatting to people about Soil Factory memberships.

As a member, you bring your food scraps to our compost station at Forest Row Community Centre. We compost them with care, mature the compost properly, and return Living Soil to members from mid-late June.

So what’s Living Soil?

Basically, it’s compost with more life in it.

This is small-batch, biochar-rich Living Soil, packed with care for pots, seedlings, veg beds and tired garden soil.

It costs more than standard compost because it’s not just compost in a plastic sack. It’s mature, nutrient-holding, moisture-holding, microbe-friendly goodness, and every bag helps support The Soil Factory as we build a local composting system here in the village.

Food scraps in. Garden magic out! ✨

Come and ask us about it today.

📍 Mansion Market, Michael Hall School
🕚 Today, 11am-4pm

Yesterday at the Soil Factory 🌱🪱Many hands made light work!Big shout out to our legendary station helpers Lucy, Joanna &...
06/05/2026

Yesterday at the Soil Factory 🌱🪱

Many hands made light work!

Big shout out to our legendary station helpers Lucy, Joanna & Sash! 👏🏼

Thanks to them Bin 5 is now available again, the maturation bins received a major worm boost, and lion’s mane substrate courtesy of has been added across the system to boost fungal life and compost quality.

Bin 4 is now running at a healthy 65°C 🔥
Bins 5 & 6 are smelling beautifully earthy ☺️

The station is alive and moving :)

We’ve reached the point where we need more maturation capacity as increasing amounts of food waste move through into the Jora hot composting stage.

We’re hopeful of positive funding news soon, plus every new member helps us keep investing back into growing the system! ✨

For members, will have an update soon on your first batch of Living Soil compost ! 🌱

And if anyone would like to come say hello, we’ll be back at Mansion Market this Saturday (11am–4pm) again with Flogs Fungi with fresh supplies, compost, mushrooms and, we’ve heard rumours, lion’s mane brownies… ! 🤤

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