Attingham Plant Sale

Volunteers from Shropshire Master Composters have been out and about this weekend (Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th May) promoting the merits of home composting at the National Trusts Plant and Garden Fayre at Attingham Park.  The event was part of our Compost Awareness Week, a single week during which we have attended 10 different events, delivered over 100 hours of volunteering and spoken to over 2,000 people about composting!

Despite the inclement weather thousands of keen gardeners turned out over the weekend to take the opportunity to buy some fantastic plants courtesy of non-profit growers such as Shropshire Organic Gardeners and the National Trust.   There were also around a dozen other stalls from local gardening companies and several volunteer organisations such as ourselves.

The BBC Radio Shropshire mobile radio studio also attended and ran a mini gardeners question time which went out live throughout the day helping to publicise the event.  There was also talks given throughout the day in the main marquee on bee keeping, gardening for wildlife, flower arranging, Caribean gardens, and more. 

Despite the fact that to some extent we were perhaps preaching to the converted at this type of event I think we still managed to convince a few new people to have a go at home composting.  Also even with the really experienced home composters there is always something new they can learn and I think they appreciate the chance to talk through some of the problems they may have come across and get some trouble shooting top tips from a Master Composter. 

A big thanks to all the staff and volunteers at the National Trust for organising such a professional and well run event and for keeping us topped up with teas and coffees throughout the wet weekend.  And of course to all the volunteers from the Master Composters who gave up their time to help with this fantastically successful event.