Home Composting for Beginners

Curious about composting?

Join this beginner-level workshop which will cover the fundamentals of home composting, incorporating kitchen scraps and garden waste to create healthy, nutritious compost.

Learn about…

• different ways to compost at home.
• what you should and shouldn’t put in your compost.
• how to make compost that doesn’t smell or attract pests.
• the link between your scraps, soil health, and biodiversity in your local area.
• ways of composting at different scales to suit the size of garden you have.
• why home composting and a zero-waste approach to food and gardening are impactful individual steps to positive climate action!

Have a tour of the different composting methods used at our plot in the Ravenscraig Walled Garden, explore the science of decomposition and discover how to create clean, nutritious compost that is rich in biodiversity and has a multitude of benefits for the garden and the wider environment.

We’ll a light, plant-based lunch for the break, but please feel free to bring your own as well.

Leave with everything you need to begin composting at home – information, support, and your very own food waste caddy and a 220L garden compost bin!

Please register if you would like to take composting equipment home with you, and to help us make sure we have enough lunch for everyone!

How to find us

Enter Ravenscraig Walled Garden through the big blue/green/grey gates on the road by the Dysart entrance to Ravenscraig Park. Proceed down the slope and straight along the track, until you see a blue cabin on the right. We’ll meet there!

If you arrive by car, you can park up inside the gates or further down behind the Greener Kirkcaldy cabin.

Access info

Ravenscraig Walled Gardens have uneven, but wide, gravel paths, and some slopes. Weather dependant, the ground may be muddy or wet. There is an accessible toilet on site, a short distance from where we’ll meet. We aim to accommodate any mobility needs as best we can, but plan to be moving between the cabin and our plot and composting site, which is a couple of minutes walk down the track. There is limited accessible parking close to the blue cabin (by the woodchip bays) and our next to our plot. There will be plenty of opportunity to sit down, and we have plastic and folding chairs. If you have any concerns, or would like to discuss this further, please get in touch and let us know what we can do to make attending possible for you!