Finding enough compost to mulch vegetable beds and borders used to be a perennial problem for gardeners in the Gloucestershire village of Bisley. Every year they would make heaps of grass cuttings, discarded plants and shrub trimmings, but the resulting rotted material never went as far as they wanted it to.
At the same time, they’d see many neighbours driving to the local recycling centre more than eight miles away with car boots full of green waste, or making bonfires and burning it all.
Time to take positive action
All this changed after friends Lesley Greene and Liz Howlett learned about a village
