In this month’s look at our work in your community, we’re sharing opportunities at the Greening Campaign - and celebrating a new compost demo site.

Alternative text should describe the visual content of the image. — The Greening Campaign are looking for more areas of Hampshire to get involved in the environmental project

The Greening Campaign is looking for new communities across Hampshire to join its programme of practical local action. The programme helps local people make a difference in their community and provides practical support, ideas and connections to help make it happen.

You could create food-growing spaces...help people save energy and stay comfortable at home...set up a project to reuse or repair...create wildlife-friendly spaces...prepare for heatwaves... or simply bring people together to make things happen locally.

You do not need to be a green group, have environmental expertise or know exactly what you want to do.

The programme works across five ‘pillars’:

Cycle of the Seed – Garden Organic provide advice and workshops on growing fruit and vegetables and sharing skills.
Energy Efficient Homes – helping people to reduce energy use, save money and stay comfortable at home.
Waste Prevention – how to reuse, share or repair things to save resources.
Supporting health and wellbeing – preparing for heatwaves and other impacts of a changing climate, while creating opportunities to get outdoors and connect with others.
Making space for nature – creating greener, more wildlife-friendly places for your community and nature.
Bringing people together – sharing skills, meeting neighbours and making positive things happen locally.

Could this work in your community? If you want to find out more, contact the Greening Campaign at [email protected] or visit their website

New compost demonstration site in Suffolk 🔗

Our Suffolk Master Composters have led the establishment of a major new composting site at the Food Museum in Stowmarket. The aim is that ALL of the Food Museum’s garden and food waste, as well as paper towels, will be composted on site!

Leftover food from the café, demonstration kitchen, and events held at the Museum will be composted in three Hotbins. Garden waste, and fruit and veg peelings, will be processed in three large bays, built of oak sleepers with steel supports. There are also large bays for fresh material, leafmould, wood chip and reed cuttings. And the site has all kinds of composting systems from wormeries and bokashi bins, to pernicious weed buckets and comfrey tea containers.

The project is a partnership between our Master Composters, the Food Museum staff and volunteers and the Suffolk Waste Partnership – led by Suffolk Country Council.