February 2011 Blog Posts (3)

A View from the Caburn 10^th Feb 2011

Last week Mat was mostly to be found shovelling mountains of compost and topsoil - fantastic, local, South Downs compost and topsoil made out of green waste collected from the local area and made lovingly by T J Composting.  Phil the farmer helped us to pick up 5 tonnes with the aid of his tractor and trailer, which then needed moving by hand into large bags for storage; go…

The sun shone for the first time today on the first solar panels to be installed in Swanborough and their new owner was over the moon! but clouds are already gathering on the horizon as the government announced a review of the feed in tariffs intended to encourage people to make this investment for themselves and the planet in future.  The problem seems to be... too much interest in…