Backyard Farm – In The Kitchen
The first part of creating a backyard farm begins in the kitchen. You need a special green waste bin or kitchen tidy with a tight-fitting lid to avoid smells.
The best of your waste goes directly to the chooks (and not into the bin):
The outer leaves on lettuces
Old but still edible pieces of fruit
Stale bread and biscuits
But not old onions, chocolate, avocadoes or cut flowers. These go into the bin along with all rotting fruit, vegies, mouldy bread – anything no longer edible.
You should also rake up dead leaves in the garden and collect prunings, lawn clippings and any other green waste.
All of this goes into the compost bin.
Next time we’ll look at how to compost.
Hooroo, Don