Stourbridge Compost Collective

03/05/2023

WE NEED YOUR HELP

We need some help from the Stourbridge community if possible… You may know a local farmer, maybe you are a local farmer.

Either way you should read the below ⬇️

We are looking for farmers to work with who are willing to let use produce compost on their land.

The compost we will be producing has been successfully trialled in other parts of the country, whereby farmers were able to completely remove all other inputs and replace them with compost extracts only, sprayed using current spray equipment.

We would require an area or areas of land that we can build bioreactors on (these are the width of a euro pallet) We also need to store biomass that would be used as feedstock for the compost, all the materials used are plant based and fully organic, the main input being wood chip.

The process takes 12 months to produce the finished product, and we would be happy to work with local farmers who wanted to trial this style of cultivation in return for access to land. Even if you aren’t interested in trialing this system but would be willing to allow us to utilise some land we would be extremely grateful.

We have been working with the Soil Ecology Lab based in Hook who ran the trial on compost extracts and have since been working to further the investigations into using compost as the main input for farmers. They are supported by Dr Elaine Ingham & the school of the Soil Food Web who work internationally implementing biological systems that remove the need for chemical fertiliser & pesticides in agriculture.

Utilising this system saves farmers huge amounts of expenses and also crops are organic by default when using this system, in our opinion they are in fact beyond organic!

If you would like to enquire about this opportunity feel free to contact us : [email protected]

18/02/2023

We run and are sponsored by Whole Plant Collective www.wholeplantcollective.com

16/02/2023

There's spaces available on the 🌱

15/02/2023

https://www.wholeplantcollective.com/stourbridgecompostcollective

15/02/2023

We are looking for some fresh manure around the Stourbridge area to fill up our hot bed for the coming season. If anybody can help or point the right direction would be greatly appreciated 🌱💚

27/01/2023

Lots of lovely woodchips to make compost with 😍

13/01/2023

https://www.wholeplantcollective.com/stourbridgecompostcollective

For just £8.99 per month we provide a local food waste collection service preventing valuable nutrients from reaching our local incineration centre. We drop a 10L bucket to your door that you can fill with your excess food. We will collect this bucket once every 3 weeks and return a clean bucket ready to fill for the next collection. We take this food and create quality biological compost.

06/12/2022

So it begins..... Our first compost tumbler, our first round of collections and the first lot of compost being made 😍 Thank you to everyone that has subscribed so far 💚🙏🪱🌱🌿

29/11/2022

08/10/2022

Footage of a Fungal Hyphae found in a sample of our compost! Fungal Hyphae can form relationships with plant roots and search for valuable nutrients the plant needs (essentially it’s like getting an extension built onto your plants root system)which is great when you are trying produce BIG crops of your favourite foods. They also draw carbon from out of the atmosphere which they use as an energy source to grow. This is why some people say that compost high in fungi can help to ease the effects of global warming 🪱🐝🦋🌱🌿🌳💚