compost and habitat creation with two greenmen
Channel: Malcolm McEwen
Date: 2013-11-11

In conjunction with Alcindo Pinto, Jersey's Little greenman of willow and wildlife gardening; we build an annual 'no turn' compost heap using the accumulated and stored garden waste, meadow grasses, lawn mowings and shredder chippings collected on a small private estate. 

The material is then layered with freshly harvested seaweed that, having been feed by ocean nutrients (originating from the land) all summer is now torn from the Atlantic and washed up onto the shore by autumn storms.  

This material is then used to build a layered, open (un-compacted) and free standing heap. Once built the heap is covered and left for one year to fully mature. After which it is moved for use and the following years accumulated wastes are again layered with seaweed. 

The construction process is complimented by an 'intermission' in form of a short stroll with Alcindo around the source of much of the waste, the wildlife pond and meadow that he, Alcindo, created and thus another revolution in the one of the Earths nature cycles is made. 

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