This is a not for profit community benefit society designed to generate benefits that are for the immediate residential populace in ways that demonstrate the means of achieving added benefits for the wider community.
We aim to generate compost that is available for local gardeners to make up for the poor quality soil in the area.
The compost is made from the left-overs that residents deposit in our secure collecting bin which then goes into one of three composting methods; wormeries, tumbling and hotbox, thelast two being anaerobic - ie starved of oxygen and generation of heat.
By doing it ourselves we want to demonstrate our model (a simple one), its viability on a large or small scale - hence pop-up - and encourage other groups to have a go.
In addition we aim to to demonstrate to a wider public the needlessness of destroying, on a vast scale, irreplacable nutrition that comes from the earth but is NOT replaced.
Landfill and incineration murder the soil we owe to our children.
Our mainstay volunteers are all residents on St Georges Estate on Cable Strreet, E1. This is in Whitechapel but close to Wapping and Tower Bridge.
Last year we processed enough to produce nearly a quarter of a ton of comppost in mint condition. This went into gardens on the estate saving money and nutrients.
DOING THE TON
Crowd funding will give us the wherewithal to make over a ton of soil.
