There’s something quietly pleasing about transforming yesterday’s vegetable peelings into dark crumbly soil that makes other things grow. I started composting thirty years ago, before it got trendy and everyone…
In the UK we spend over £1,500 per household on furniture every year (ONS). Despite this level of expenditure we throw away over 22 million pieces every year (North London…
If you’re sick of bagging up garden waste and throwing away perfectly usable food scraps with your general household rubbish, you’ve likely looked into composting. I mean, why wouldn’t you?…
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There are composting guides aplenty on the internet. Pages and pages of what you can and can’t put in your bin. One tells you citrus peels will kill your worms,…
I still remember the look on my parents’ faces when I told them I was going to have worms in my flat in Bristol. It’s true what they say; you…
It’s immensely satisfying to find an old piece of furniture and restore it into exactly what you want for your house. I started doing this long before thrift-flipping was trendy…
Key Takeaways (TL;DR) Humanure composting appeals to our sense of ecological simplicity. It closes the loop, retains nutrients, and saves water. It just seems logical. Unfortunately, it’s far from straightforward.…
I thought I was doing well with my recycling. Each week I’d separate bottles from cardboard and rinse out yoghurt pots. Putting them in the right bin made me feel…
If you live in a flat, rent and don’t have outdoor space, or simply have no room for a compost bin, waste in the kitchen still accumulates. Scraps that could…
From my battered old dresser to my rustic shelf made from reclaimed fence palings, my flat is full of upcycled items. Things that started life as something else but have…
How long does compost take? There are lots of questions about composting that we’ll get to eventually, but the one I hear about more than any other is how long…
I get asked this question repeatedly over in my local Facebook marketplace group. Can you really make money upcycling furniture and selling it? Actual proper money, not hobbyist amounts –…
About six years ago I decided to try composting. Since then I’ve made pretty much every mistake in the book. I’ve had the pile that stank so badly the neighbours…
You have a drawer full of old phones, laptops, tablets, chargers with no matching devices, and random other tech bits and pieces that you don’t know what to do with.…