Community Composting

Community Composting logo (designed by Lewis Gasson-Jones from Buckfastleigh Primary School)

T h e    s o i l    i s     a l i v e !

In one teaspoon of soil there are ONE BILLION microscopic organisms

Bacteria and Fungi.  There are literally 1000’s of different species

In 1 square metre of soil in the top 22cm there are as many as

100,000 living creatures…

mites  /  springtails  /  spiders  /  ants  /  beetles  /  centipedes

millipedes  /  slugs  /  snails

& or course there are:

worms

As many as 300 earth worms per square metre!

Compost heaps are even more abundant with life forms than soil!

Colonies of bacteria in a compost heap can

double – elduob

every

HOUR!

And keep on doubling reaching ASTRONMICAL LEVELS!

All this activity respiring, consuming and reproducing creates

)))  Heat  (((

And the heat loving

bacteria thrive.

Then when the compost heap

(((  Cools  )))

There’s plenty of FOOD to go around for everyone.

All kinds of creatures,

BIG and small

love the w a r m t h of the cosy compost heap:

beetles / larvae / frogs / toads / slow worms / grass snakes

and birds will visit by day and bats will visit by night

Everything that lived recently can be composted:

food / wood / cardboard / paper / wool / grass cuttings / straw / hay / saw dust / branches

Imagine a cheese sandwich…the

brown stuff is the bread and the green stuff is the cheese.

Get the mix right and

COMPOST HAPPENS

~ Make your own lovely soil for FREE ~