The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

Church chat

Winter composting 

4/12/2021

In 2007 the Burial Grounds won a Heritage Lottery grant for improving and developing the area.  We resurfaced paths, planted flower beds, ran educational projects, put up information boards – and built 3 compost bins.  3 LARGE compost bins.   Two of them are full and one has fallen apart so we almost literally have compost spilling out.  The bins seemed like a great idea at the time – why not compost our waste ourselves instead of Camden taking it all?  Camden do still benefit from a lot of our waste for their composting plant (somewhere in Edmonton I believe) and we’re happy for them to have it in exchange for taking away what we can’t cope with.  But several years on we realise we actually have far more compost than we need and so we’re offering it to anyone who can organise taking it away.  The bins are in the middle of the ABG – up the left path, across the middle, past the water tank and then they’re on the right against the wall.  This Saturday the gardening team will be spreading as much as they need on our flowerbeds – come and join us between 10 and 12, or come later and help yourself.