I hope compost lovers in Finland will be joining us from the spring when they get their hands on their own Finland friendly version of The Little Book of Compost. I’ve just found out that it’s going to be translated into Finnish. In Finland they do things a little differently. The compost bins have to [...]

I’m very excited because I’ve been invited to sign copies of my books at Much Ado Books in Alfriston, Sussex. At this years British Book Industry Awards they won Independent Bookshop of the Year Award so I know I’ll be well looked after by my hosts Cate and Nash. If you live in the [...]

Love coffee and compost and want to make the most of all those left over coffee grounds - watch this video and set up a scheme near you.

This film is very funny. If you’ve been thinking about carbon offsetting watch this before you fork out. You might want to do something different after you’ve watched it - like investing your money saving energy in your own home, buying a compost bin or investing in a new bike. Check it out. [...]

CAT has put a sale price on my book Curious Incidents in the Garden at Night-time which is great news because it hopefully means more people will buy it and take its message to heart. Apparently every other book being bought there at the moment is Curious Incidents so the new price of £5.99 (£8.99 [...]

Those of you who have just bought The Little Book of Compost but not yet got a copy of my other new book The Organic Garden can have a look inside thanks to this new facility from my publishers Collins. If you skip the first few pages you’ll quickly get in to the introduction and [...]

The Little Book of Compost is out and some of you are now reaching this blog because you’ve seen by new url www.compostlover.com. From now on I’m going to be blogging a lot more about compost. Its one of my favourite parts of gardening, its something everybody can do no matter how busy they are [...]