Description
Composting is easy and fun, it saves you money and helps you grow lovely plants. It can be done at home, work or school, in spaces big and small.
- How to Make and Use Compost shows you how to compost food and green waste:
- Creating the right mix for successful composting
- How to compost food waste safely
- The different composting systems, including cold composting, wormeries, bokashi and hot boxes
- Making liquid feeds and potting compost from your home-grown compost
- Community Composting
The book features an A-Z guide to what you can and cannot compost, composting techniques, common problems and their solutions.
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Reviews
Praise for first edition:
Written with flair, this book will give you confidence as a beginner or improve your technique if you're a habitual composter.
- The Ecologist
Clearly written and cross-referenced, this book draws on a wide composting experience.
- Sue Stickland, author of Back Garden Seed Saving
… tells you everything you need to know about compost systems, wormeries and the incredible value of compost.
- Western Daily Press
Author Biography
Nicky Scott is the author of several books on composting and recycling. He advises schools, local authorities and businesses on composting kitchen waste and helps set up community composting groups. The “hot box” composter he developed is widely used for composting food waste.
UIT Cambridge Ltd / Green Books
We publish non-fiction books under two imprints, UIT and Green Books. UIT Cambridge is best known for its bestselling 'without the hot air' series, making important science and sustainability topics accessible - like 'Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air' and 'Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air'. We also have a new series on contemporary art - 'the city through the eyes of its artists' - including 'The Cambridge Art Book' and 'The Dublin Art Book'. Green Books is well known for titles on environmental topics and practical sustainability like organic no-dig gardening and permaculture, sustainable building, ecology and climate change, forest schools, self-sufficiency, spirituality, mind, body & spirit, eco-philosophy and eco-activism. Examples include 'Creating a Forest Garden', 'Organic Gardening', 'Building with Hempcrete' and 'Living on One Acre or Less'.
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- Imprint Green Books
- Publication Date February 2021
- ISBN/Identifier 9780857845450
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15.99 GBP
- Pages200
- Publish StatusPublished
- Edition2
- Copyright Year2021
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
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