Compost from kitchen to pile~what's YOUR system?

[Ldychef2k]

I have a large enamel pan with rust spots that sits just outside the garage door to the kitchen. Just elbow the door open and toss, then take to the compost pile when I feel like it.

 

[On Our own]

I have a large enamel pan with rust spots that sits just outside the garage door to the kitchen. Just elbow the door open and toss, then take to the compost pile when I feel like it.

That's my kind of system! I just keep a bowl near the sink. We go out to the coop at least twice a day. If it is chicken food it goes in the run, if it isn't I toss it on the compost pile. In the summer the chooks free range and they churn up the compost very nicely for me so I try to bury tea bags and let them root through the rest for goodies. In the winter wild critters do some of the same duty. No rat or mice issue, we have a fox and hawk issue!

 

[Farmfresh]

Between chickens, goats, and dogs, I have only a few spoonfuls of coffee grounds and 2-4 tea bags a day....too little to bother with, so I admit that I don't add anything from my kitchen to my huge compost pile. Except about 3-4 gallons of whey a week in the summer and fall from cheesemaking.

With the chickens, goats and dogs WHY are you dumping the whey?

I would feed it to them. My hennies LOVE whey. The calcium is great for them. My dogs would eat it until they were sick, if I could let them and even the goats would benefit from the protein it provides! I would stir it into their grain ration.

I tried that...they drank about a gallon, total, and now they turn their little beaks and noses up and say, "Oh, whey, AGAIN? Sheesh! Why do you think we'll drink whey when we know you will be giving us cheese, kefir, sour milk, forgotten yogurt, and other delicacies?" I try to re-introduce it on occasion, to no avail. I have lots of whey during the best free-ranging weather. The little aristocrats have snooty taste. This summer, though, we will have three pigs, so no more composting the whey!!! Yay!

Yup pigs the ultimate compost machines!

 

[tortoise]

We have a 2 or 3 1/2 gallon ice cream tub that is in the freezer. I stack up 3.

1 - yucky compost - coffee grounds and onions
2 - yummy compost - rabbit treats
3 - bones - after I boil them once they go in the freezer until trash day. It keeps the dogs safe and no stinky trash.

 

[big brown horse]

I change systems all the time. Currently I am using a big produce bag that I got at the farmer's market. It is thicker than the ones you get at the grocery store.

I stuff it with all my kitchen scraps and coffee grounds and twist up the bag on itself. No gnats this way. I take it out to the compost when it gets full.

My compost is open for the chickens to scratch around in. They get what they want and leave the rest.

I rinse it out and use it again and again.

As far as leftover bones go, I make long simmered bone broths with them. I add ACV and they crumble in my hand when I'm done. Those go right on top of the dog's food. (You should see them on bone broth making days!)

ETA: I got my bone broth making idea from freemotion's class

 

[old fashioned]

I just use the empty coffee can with lid and dump it every day or three as it fills up. It sits on the back corner of my sink.

 

[mistyfeather365]

in the summer everything goes in a bucket at the end of the day its dumped in the compost bin. in the winter i put everything in a gallon size ziplock and it goes into the freezer and once a month goes to the compost bin, after the scraps have been frozen for a few weeks they break down very quickly in the compost bin, by early spring it fully composted and ready for the garden.

 

[big brown horse]

Hey Mistyfeather365,

 

[GardenWeasel]

Just changed my system this month due to the chickens spreading the compost pile all over the yard, so their run is the new compost pile for everything like leftovers and veggie trimmings. Got free 5 gallon buckets with lids from Walmart and every day poop scoop from the coop goes in that all week along with coffee grounds and other non chicken scraps. Once a week I clean the poo boards into the wheelbarrow add the bucket contents and wheel it down to the seasons dedicated sheet compost area. Next year that will be my corn or other heavy feeder planting spot. We'll see how that works out.

 

[Farmfresh]

Just changed my system this month due to the chickens spreading the compost pile all over the yard, so their run is the new compost pile for everything like leftovers and veggie trimmings. Got free 5 gallon buckets with lids from Walmart and every day poop scoop from the coop goes in that all week along with coffee grounds and other non chicken scraps. Once a week I clean the poo boards into the wheelbarrow add the bucket contents and wheel it down to the seasons dedicated sheet compost area. Next year that will be my corn or other heavy feeder planting spot. We'll see how that works out.

That system should work out great! I do a similar thing except I tend to move the chicken run instead of the poo.