Tag Archives: sustainability

Rocket Stoves: Efficient and Eco-Friendly

A Rocket Stove is an extremely efficient and clean-burning wood stove. It utilizes a tall flue or heat riser that generates a strong draft, ensuring that most of the wood gas, smoke, and particulate matter produced during combustion are burned within the chimney or heat riser itself. The stoves can also be built from aContinue reading “Rocket Stoves: Efficient and Eco-Friendly”

Biochar Burn @MOP

Site Closed Today Edit: We regret to inform you that Meadow Orchard is closed today due to Storm Darragh. In light of the yellow weather warning and the potential risk of falling branches, we have made the decision to close the site for safety reasons. We appreciate your understanding. The activity We will be preparingContinue reading “Biochar Burn @MOP”

Winter Solstice Celebration

We are going to fire up our Cob Oven to celebrate the Winter Solstice! The Pizza recipes sound amazing! Date Saturday 21/12/24Firing from 12.00Pizzas 14.00 – 17.00 Suggested event donation £5.00 Hopefully it will be dry and we can enjoy an evening social around the firepit with some hot drinks and fabulous pizza to eat.Continue reading “Winter Solstice Celebration”

Community Bread Bake

We will be holding a community bread bake at Meadow Orchard Project on the 2nd November! Cob Oven Firing & Community Baking Fundraiser Date Saturday 2/10/24 Firing from 12.00Baking 14.00 – 18.00 Suggested event donation £5.00 in aid of twinning our rebooted compost loo with another dry toilet out there in the world! See http://www.toilettwinning.orgContinue reading “Community Bread Bake”

Goodgym @MOP II

We welcomed our friends from Goodgym to Meadow Orchard again this month. We fired up one of our biochar stoves for a bit of much needed warmth and light and grabbed some of our work-lights, tools and a kettle to set up a cosy outdoor work area. We had something suitably taking to give ourContinue reading “Goodgym @MOP II”

Biochar Cook Stoves

Soil at Meadow Orchard is very shallow as the majority of the site was previously used as tennis courts, the ground has previously been made up with a thick drainage layer of clinker under the tennis court surfacing, leaving very little topsoil. The clinker itself can be broken up into the subsoil but that leavesContinue reading “Biochar Cook Stoves”

Composting loo

Update (5/10/24) Our composting toilet is now back in use (5th October 2024). One wheelie bin has been upgraded with drainage, a sub-floor, aeration, and a secure lid. In the spring, we will convert another couple of donated wheeliebins. They can then be used with the composting loo. How to use the loo The toiletContinue reading “Composting loo”

URBAN SYBIOSIS

Firstly, what is Urban Sybiosis? The basics of Urban Sybiosis is taking waste materials from one stream and utilising it in another. Using local waste materials saves waste from going into landfill, saves having to move the material around in big polluting diesel trucks, saves money and reduces the need for producing new materials, furtherContinue reading “URBAN SYBIOSIS”

Get Composting

We use organic matter from a number of local waste streams to produce compost and mulch for our food growing ‘Kitchen Garden’ and Orchard. We have offered to compost the spent brewery grain, hops and yeast from the nearby Muswell Hillbillies brewery, waste micro greens substrate from Tasty Micros, arborists woodchip from Forbes Tree Surgeons,Continue reading “Get Composting”