Malcolm Rich, Vital Earth Sales & Marketing Director, addresses SY
group members during our visit to the company's state of the art composting
facility at Ashbourne. Here he explains how the raw biodegradable waste rots
down in aerated outdoor vessels.

Group members contemplate piles of semi-rotted waste in the covered halls.

The finished article: compost ready to be bagged for sale.

Sustainable Youlgrave welcomes Baroness Young, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, and Jim Dixon, Chief Executive of the Peak District National Park, during a fact-finding visit to Youlgrave in August 2007.

Sustainable Youlgrave's Andrew McCloy at the 21st Century Village Conference in Bakewell in September 2007, next to the group's new display stand paid for by a grant from Derbyshire County Council's Greenwatch Action Grant.

Sustainable Youlgrave's John Youatt welcomes Christian Aid's Cut
the Carbon March, which passed through Youlgrave en route from Belfast to
London during July 2007.

Cheryl Woodruff of WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) came to Youlgrave in February and led a very interesting and productive workshop for us on the subject of home composting