Garden Organic will be doing composting workshops on Saturday 21st September at our Sustainable Futures Festival

Composting is turning waste into black gold! It makes perfect sense for everybody that wants to improve their garden, reduce their environmental impact and save some money.

Garden Organic will be on hand to provide composting advice to people throughout the day. We will also provide 2 half hour workshops:

Workshop 1: Perfect composting every time (30min session)

There is a bit more to composting than just throwing everything on a heap and leaving it. We will give a practical demonstration on how to optimise your garden composting and troubleshoot the most common problems. This session is suitable for complete beginners but will also give handy tips to those who are already familiar with composting.

In this session we will cover:

• What you can add to your compost
• How to manage your mix
• Different types of bins
• Troubleshooting common problems

Workshop 2: Compost creatures (30min session)

Your compost heap is a mini zoo! We will take a deep dive into the life in your compost bin, considering the roles of the various life forms in the composting process, then there is the opportunity to see what you can find looking down the microscope.In this session we will cover:

• How the various life forms create your compost
• What the creatures in your compost can tell you!
• A deep dive look down the microscope.

Who we are

Garden Organic is the leading national charity for organic growing – with 20,000 members and 500 volunteers, we have reached over 3 million people with our work. We are dedicated to organic growing, composting, rare seed conservation, citizen science and research – with the overarching aim of supporting biodiversity.

We champion organic gardening through projects, training, and activity throughout the UK. We promote its health and wellbeing benefits, which include it being a good
form of exercise, a stimulus to a better diet and a tool for social interaction
and addressing climate change. Our headquarters are based at Ryton, near

Coventry, and we are grateful for this opportunity which will allow us to further connect with our local community.

Working with local authorities, schools, housing providers, other charities and partners, we provide training and support to volunteers and residents in the benefits and practicalities of organic growing and composting, drawing on our 20 years’
experience of working in the community and delivering
community engagement programmes.