Loop Frome are hosting a compost sale in Victoria Park on Sunday 20th October, from 12pm to 3pm. Find the team opposite the bandstand to pick up some ‘living compost’ for £10 a bag, locally created using food waste and perfect for encouraging your fruit and vegetables to grow.
Cllr Ben Still, a founder member of Loop Frome, said ‘For just over three years now, Loop Frome has been collecting food waste from businesses around the town and transforming it into compost. Working with people such as the Rye Bakery, Lungi Babas and the new Jude’s Café, we collect waste on electric cargo trikes every Wednesday and Friday. The food waste is processed in a Ridan Hot composter and mixed with wood shavings from local woodworker Will McLean and his team. After this, nature starts to take over. We mature the compost in specially designed boxes at our site in Victoria Park, and after nine months create complete ‘living compost’. This final product contains billions of beneficial bacteria, fungi, and microorganism per gram, ready to be added to soils to help create perfect growing environments. Loop’s compost is something to add to soil in autumn and spring. It will revitalise your garden with the microscopic life so often lost, and not present in most soils. This will mean your plants are not only bigger and more abundant, but also healthier and containing more nutrients.
Compost Sale on October 20th
Loop’s aim is to get this compost out there and working for Frome. On 20th October in Victoria Park (opposite the bandstand), from 12 to 3pm, the team are hosting an autumn compost sale. The event will be opened by keen gardener and Town Mayor Andy Jones and supported by Frome town crier Martin Scott.
Get involved
Now that Loop Frome has proven itself as a viable business, and its core efforts to increase Frome’s capacity to turn ‘waste’ into resource is flourishing, the team has three needs to help it continue to grow. Loop Director Peter Macfadyen said:
‘Firstly, Loop needs more people: from the ‘front end’ of working with businesses and making compost, as well as building mini ‘compost creation stations’ in the community, to strategic development, there are so many potential roles. Secondly, there is a fantastic opportunity to build on the core of compost creation to educational outputs around soil, growing, and nature more broadly. If this is your thing, we’d love to hear your ideas! Loop is in the perfect place to launch ideas from, with two cargo trikes, an experienced team, and a viable business model. Thirdly, we now have some more spaces for businesses wanting food-waste collections, if your making food ‘waste’ and would prefer to see it renewed into something of real value for Frome, please get in touch at info@loopfrome.org.
And finally, if you can’t wait to get your hands on our compost, or simply want to learn more, you can buy compost directly from our online store, as well as discover other projects we have brewing in the background.’
The compost sale takes place on Sunday 20th October from 12pm to 3pm in Victoria Park, Frome. Find out more about Loop Frome at www.loopfrome.org. Register your interest in the sale at https://bit.ly/loop-compost-sale-oct24
