Shropshire Council’s Oak Farm in Ditton Priors is one of 16 council services in the country who applied for the Best Partnership Award in the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) 2011 celebration awards, and everyone at Oak Farm is delighted that they have now reached the final three. The awards recognise the dedication, success and achievements of council recycling officers and their teams and partners.
The day service has been shortlisted under the category Best Partnership Award for their Oak Farm community composting scheme. The strength and success of the project is due to the way in which the local community and the farm have worked closely together from the start to produce a project that has many benefits which include:
•a more local solution for green waste
•good quality compost for the farm
•an opportunity for Oak Farm workers to get together with locals
•a reduction in the village’s carbon footprint
Oak Farm provides training in agriculture and horticulture for adults with learning disabilities. It’s a busy place where everyone is involved in growing and selling produce, looking after animals, selling eggs and of course, running a community composting scheme for the local village. In addition to this everyone in the village can bring their green waste in by car or wheelbarrow where it will be offloaded, shredded, turned and then used as compost on the farm.
click here to see behind the scenes at Oak Farm Community Composting scheme
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