Composting Food Waste:
Turning scraps into life
Become a Volunteer Composter and learn the art of hot composting, and recording temperatures while helping transform your community’s food waste into nutrient-rich soil. You’ll gain hands-on skills, shared learning, and plenty of good company at our Soil Squad coffee mornings. In return, you’ll receive a share of autumn mulch and spring living compost for FREE!.
For just £7 a month, drop off your full food waste bucket and we’ll take care of the rest, returning a 30-litre bucket of living compost to you every spring for FREE. However you join in, you’re helping regenerate local soil and close the loop from plate to planet. Register today to be part of our exclusive service and help to shape something truly special from the ground up.
You have a couple of options…
Volunteer With The Squad!
Choose a flexible weekly composting slot that’s convenient to you and receive your very own 20 litre bucket + bokashi bran to get started!
You’ll receive a practical demo of how to hot compost and your own bokashi composting guide. In autumn, you’ll receive 30 litres of mulch for your garden / pots and in the spring, 30 litres of beautiful living compost.
Complete the form below to sign up and we’ll be in touch! (please double check your junk email).
Drop Off At The Hub!
Drop off your 20 litre food waste bucket every 3 weeks for £7 per visit. Recycle around 340 litres of food waste annually and receive a 30 litre bucket of living microbe-dense compost back. Subscribe and we’ll contact you about our next introductory session.
Sign up for an annual subscription and get your first drop off free!
How it works?
Sign up to volunteer or drop off and we’ll give you a Soil Squad starter pack with everything you need – your very own Soil Squad bucket, a bag of Bokashi bran (the magic ingredient for fermenting food waste), and a simple how-to guide. Fill your bucket, let the magic happen. and return it to us.
Once it’s at our Community Composting Hub, your food waste is transformed into nutrient-rich compost using a hot composter. This eliminates any harmful bacteria and creates a microbe-rich pre-compost in just 3 to 4 weeks. We’re proud that this process is emission-free, human-powered, and completely off-grid, with some rainwater collection too.
After a toasty stay in our hot composter, the real magic begins. We let nature do her thing, giving the compost time to mellow, mingle, and turn into a fungi-packed, microbe-loaded, worm-filled feast. Fast forward 6–12 months, and you receive rich, living compost boost for happy, healthy soil.
