We've made some efforts to reduce our energy consumption compared to the UK, and as we're in the winter - when usage will be highest - I'm pleasantly surprised how it's going so far...

I'm constantly on the look out for new things that we can try around the farm to try and make a difference one way or another.

One issue that has cropped up is that we need to improve our composting. Over the winter it has become very clear the composting heap is in a far from ideal place, as it gets flooded when the snow melts...

As part of this, and after listening about it quite a few times on the Wiggly Wigglers Podcast, I have spent quite a long while mulling over the idea of EM Bokashi - or Effective Microorganisms - as a method of helping with "composting" waste, and improving the health of soil and animals.

We've just done our first environmental audit, using the "Saving the Planet Without Costing The Earth" book by Donnachadh McCarthy, a well known environmental author, campaigner and sometime Grauniad contributor.

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Here are the results...