It can be hard to stay warm during these winter months, and let’s face it, it can be hard to make it out to the garden, where everything is cold, and it’s been oh so wet!
Thank goodness for microbes, who, given the right conditions, keep reproducing, creating heat, and breaking down our discarded food scraps.
YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) members have been busy, feeding their microbes, training more people to be composters and planning for more YIMBY action when the weather is more tempting.
After a leaf collecting filled autumn, and oak leaves still hanging on, it’s time to start thinking about spring. Being a time of abundant growth, it’s a busy time for the compost and YIMBY has been cooking up tasty morsels to get you composting well.
YIMBY not only supports its own composters, but offers training to the general community on how to make great compost.
To this end, YIMBY will be starting ‘COMPOST CONVERSATIONS’, a regular column in the Midland Express, exploring a different topic each week, and being responsive to questions asked on social media, and via email.
But the conversation does not have to end there. YIMBY will be offering more workshops this year, starting with a three-hour session in collaboration with Grow Great Fruit on August 27. A great chance to dip into YIMBY’s very own ‘Continuous Hot Composting’ method.
In other YIMBY news, this month some of the new GYMby crew got busy with on-the-job training.
GYMby is a young crew who support composters with the heavy work of turning over one tonne of compost every month, and in the process, learn about composting, enjoy making a contribution to a climate positive action and making new connections.
YIMBY is a project of The Hub Foundation, working towards a vision of a creative and connected community, (re)cycling food scraps back into great compost.
Contact YIMBY at hello@yimbycompost.com
