Events
Bringing Composting to Life - March 30th
How to start up traditional and bokashi composting projects in your community, recycling waste and creating your own black gold for growing
Compost isn’t called ‘Black Gold’ for nothing. It’s expensive to buy but so satisfying to make yourself once you get stuck in. Composting is nature’s Circular Economy, where food waste is reduced and reused. Compost holds essential nutrients and moisture needed for good plant growth. It is rich in organic matter and this feeds the worms
The Active Wellbeing Society have partnered with Food For Life Get Togethers to Bring Composting to Life: Join us to hear how some Birmingham organisations are turning their waste in to compost and get a glimpse of some of the exciting composting projects that are spreading across the city. There will also be a demonstration of Bokashi Composting which means that you can compost any food once you have mastered a few simple rules. Plus, learn how you can save £££’s with a quick, effective and cheap method to fill planters and get growing straight away instead of buying lots of shop-bought compost, a real winner!
The live event will be recorded for those unable to attend on the day.
Regular Composting & Growing Events
Previous Events
Birmingham Friends of the Earth, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH
Saturday 1st October: 11am-1pm
Join us for our first ‘Big Mix’ afternoon
We are opening our purpose-built three-bay compost system to the public. (Bring compost-curiosity, outdoor clothes and, if you want, food waste!).
Saturday 15th October: 11am-1pm
Wormeries!
Are the expensive ones worth it? Find out how to make a cheap indoor wormery that will produce gorgeous fertiliser from food scraps. Demo at 11.30, but pop in when you can!
Saturday 6th November: 11am-1pm
Pumpkin smash!
Bring your Hallowe’en pumpkins and let’s smash them up for compost.
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About the composting approach at BFOE:
At Birmingham Friends of the Earth, we’d like to create a garden of compost-y experimentation! With a large-scale, purpose-built bay system we can compost all the food waste from the onsite Warehouse Cafe, but we’re also demo-ing smaller systems that could work on a household scale. Come and see us for experimental worm bin fun, super-sized tumbling and intriguing forays into bokashi fermentation.
Our setting is the beautiful, volunteer-grown permaculture wonderland of Digbeth Community Garden. Visit us on the first and third Saturdays of the month, 11am-1pm.
If you live or work locally, we’d love to talk to you about we could help you compost your food waste.
Questions? Compost@birminghamfoe.org.uk
Incredible Surplus @ Londonderry Allotments, Manor Road, Smethwick, B67 7HR
Saturday 15th October: 1-3pm.
Plastic composters/’Daleks’: Join us for this hands-on workshop learning how to create beautiful compost in a simple plastic composter.
We will show you how to confidently transform kitchen and garden materials into compost without smells or pests.
Suitable for beginners, great for small gardens!
- Discover how composting happens
- Rat-proof your compost bin
- Use a range of kitchen and garden materials
- Compost without bad smells
- Speed up the composting process
Saturday 19th November, 1-3pm
Wormeries: Join us for this hands-on workshop learning the joy of composting with worms!
Wormeries are composting powerhouses. They are a wonder-full way to compost kitchen scraps, turning them into a rich compost, great for our plants.
You will learn how to confidently:
- build a wormery from second hand materials
- get your wormery started
- keep your worms happy and healthy
- harvest your finished compost
**great for flats**
Book a FREE place
All of our workshops are led by compost experts The Compost Connection. Place are free but limited. If you are interested in booking a place get in contact via our contact form
Incredible Surplus, Londonderry Allotments, Smethwick, B67 7HR
Saturday 17th September: 1 - 3pm
Bokashi: a hands on workshop learning about a composting process that allows you to recycle cooked food, meat and dairy
Bokashi is a simple process that uses special microbes and an airtight bucket to ferment kitchen scraps, including cooked food, meat and dairy. These fermented scraps will then quickly and safely break down either in a compost bin or in a box of a box of soil.
September 2nd: 'Introduction to Home Composting' workshop
10 keen and green participants learned the key points of successful home composting and how it can help the soil, garden, city and planet!Thanks to Claire of The Compost Connection CIC ably assisted by Richard from the Farm.