we don't have worms or compost

[~*heket*~]

But we have rabbits :lol They're such fantastic composters I'm amazed! They eat kitchen scraps and turn them into ready made fertilizer :eager

We're hopefully going to get a garden going in the next little bit, and thanx to the bunnies we've got lots of "shit" (:rofl) to help the soil blossom!

What do you do with your kitchen scraps?

[Sarasvati]

We have a bokashi and a compost bin. Would love chooks!

[Janet]

We bury it in small batches around the front and back yards which for suburban jobs are pretty big. Working up to chooks! :eager

[dylan]

This is our main guilt thing at the moment - we have to chuck them in the bin :( we have moved from our house with a garden and compost bin to a flat with no garden and bin. Need to save for a bokashi bucket methinks...

[Sarasvati]

Badb if you have a bokashi you need to find someone with a backyard willing to take your scraps. They don't tell you that in the marketing of it, I had an arrangement with a friend when we lived at our old place. She had chooks so all her kitchen scraps went to them, so our bokashi waste went into their compost bin.

[dylan]

dammit - mum already has a compost bin and worms and chooks, she probably doesn't need any more composty type material :lol

[Ceres]

I have a very overworked worm farm.

[breeze]

Ds and I just started a compost last weekend :eager I'd love some chooks too

[dylan]

I have a very overworked worm farm.
Mum and Dad's is overworked with just the 2 of them!

[The_Source]

We have a compost bin and a duck. The duck works on much the same principle as the rabbits. ;) However, the duck is free roaming so the fertiliser deposits are a bit more randomly dispersed (other than the two places it likes to stand to get my attention when I am in the kitchen). :lol

[Asrathiel]

We have compost, and are getting some chooks as soon as we get some land (hopefully next year!)

[Beatrice]

There's no such thing as too much compost, Badb ;)

We have an "official" wormfarm (the kind in layers with legs), two old bathtubs which are essentially worm farms/soil factories with veges planted in the top layer, chooks, a bunny, and two compost tumblers :cool

[esp]

haha - I have to laugh. We have 3 compost bins (2 the black ones and one a home made open one), we have a worm farm and chooks. Since getting the chooks the compost has been neglected and not much makes it in there. So we buy bags of horse and cow shit from the side of the road. The kids are always going on about how Dad likes to buy all kinds of shit.
We do like to grow lots of stuff in the gardens though.

[Ceres]

I've been wondering about what to do with my worm farm when I move. It's slightly falling apart and very heavy! Plus I will be getting chooks when I move so I guess most of the kitchen scraps will go to them. Maybe I can give it to one of my neighbours or something.

[Blossomtime]

We have chooks who eat most of our food waste. We give our guinea pigs some fruit and veg scraps and their bedding is used for mulch for the garden too. The chooks don't like banana skins, onions or orange peel, so we put that in the bokashi bin. Then we bury the bokashi and the chooks delight in digging over it and looking for worms :lol its a good system!

[jikki]

For us, it's the bin I'm afraid...we have 2 dogs, which unfortunately makes small animals (chooks, ducks, rabbits etc) out of the question. I'm a bit wary of the compost heap because I don't want to stink out the neighbours! But I saw a nifty worm farm at the markets last month, and am seriously considering. For those of you with one - is it effective? Would you buy it again? It's nearly $200, so I don't want to spend the money if it's going to be a load of rubbish (ha ha..no pun intended..!!)

[Ceres]

Honestly, it's not worth getting a bought one. Just get some foam boxes from the greengrocer and make your own. It's dead easy, great project for the kids too. Another alternative could be a compost tumbler. BTW compost shouldn't smell bad - only if you don't aerate it and anaerobic bacteria grow instead of the aerobic ones. If you toss it over with a pitchfork every couple of weeks it will smell sweet.