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Podcast: Country Life
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Turning brewery gunk and forest junk into something good for the soil

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:20:05
Publish Date: 2026-02-20 06:42:00
Description:

Hops from a Wellington brewery, cotton offcuts from a fashion label and forestry slash has turned Matt Welton into a bit of a Heath Robinson. His first job was collecting scrap metal in London's East End and after careers as a prison officer and cartographer, he has come full circle, this time turning the organic waste he collects into biochar for farmers and growers on his Akatarawa property.

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