Products & Services
Community compost toilets

We offer co-design, consultation and building services for composting toilets. Whether you have an existing toilet in need of work, or are hoping to build a brand new one, our team can work with you to ensure it is accessible, low maintenance, beautiful, useable and integrated with your local ecosystems.

Consultation

If you would like to explore what composting system/s would work best for you/ your site, we offer a consultation service which includes site visits, soil analysis, microscopy, facilitated discussions, reports and recommendations.

Bespoke wormeries

Wormeries are a fantastic way to recycle foodwaste and turn it into a high nutrient fertiliser and compost. Using recycled materials, we can work with you to design and build a wormery suitable for your space, be it a community garden, housing estate, office, flat, boat, cafe/ kitchen or community space.

Compost bays

We are experienced with building rodent proof composting bays & accessible signage systems for shared use. These are great for composting a mixture of garden and selected foodwaste to produce homemade compost.

Zines

We produce and sell a range of zines to share knowledge, experience and learning from our work. You can purchase our zines online via etsy, at one of our stalls, or commission us to make one for your project.

Soil care activity packs

for schools, community groups, & individuals. Activity packs can be tailored to age group and audience.

Workshops

We offer a wide range of workshops exploring human relationships with alter-life / microbes / waste / soil / seeds/ ecology and food, for all age groups. Through our workshops we combine creative and scientific ways of knowing, using methods ranging from microscopy to poetry, story telling, seed swapping, making, observing, and building. Below is a list of workshops we have run previously, see also our 'Events' page for more examples.

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  • ~ Creative Writing & Nature Connection workshops
  • ~ Remaking the Soil Food Web: crafting new representations of the SFW through activities, games & making
  • ~ Soil Oracles: collaborative practice, tarot and soil life
  • ~ Soil Ecologies: DIY soil testing, explorations and creative writing
  • ~ Through the Microscope: The lively art of decomposition, fermentation and transformation
  • ~ Seed Stories and Symbionts: swapping stories and seeds around the microscope
  • ~ Microscopic Lunch Series: shared lunch and microscope gazing
Handcrafted ceramic bathroom instruments

basins, toilets, urinals, STPs, urine diverters and pipes. These objects are saggar-fired with organic materials such as various manures (wormanure, humanure), bison hair, herbs and feathers. They are formed to fit different bodies and practices.

Co-designed with our team and created by the artist, Nissa Nishikawa.

To find out more or purchase any of our products & services...

please write to info@compost-mentis.com