| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Mary-Jane |
Can I put meat and pasta in a wormery?I keep meaning to ask this. I've got to order some more worms for our wormery to get it up and running again. We don't often have cooked food left over that we can't do anything with, but occasionally pasta and/or meat left-overs are still hanging around a few days later. Once I get the wormery going again can I put these left-overs in there? |
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| wellington womble |
In theory yes - although I have to add I have never dared, for fear of attracting rats. We have endemic mice that I can live with, but I can really do without rats at the moment. I guess it depends how effcient your womery is at dealing with waste - ours are V E R Y S L O W, but mostly because they are badly managed. | ||||
| Mary-Jane |
Could you not send one or two of them on a management course then? 
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| Chez |
They could have little clip-boards and shiny suits and take Badger Avoidance Courses. | ||||
| Mary-Jane |
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| wellington womble |
think it ought be me on the management course 
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| cab |
Re: Can I put meat and pasta in a wormery?
Not meat, and not cooked pasta. The pasta will go all slimy before the worms get to it, and the meat will fester unpleasantly. If you're wanting to compost those then either do bokashi (my experimients with repalcing this process with something simpler are interesting, but I'll report back later when I'm sure I know whats happening) or do REALLY BIG COMPOSTING. Is there anything basically wrong with digging a big hole and burying cooked food waste? |
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| Mary-Jane |
Re: Can I put meat and pasta in a wormery?
Absolutely no idea...'cept I guess foxes would dig it all up. |
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| Chez |
Re: Can I put meat and pasta in a wormery?
That would be my worry. Or badgers - ask Mochyn about the desecration of her Chicken Graveyard. |
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| hedgehogpie |
If you want to get rid of cooked food waste, have a look at green cones. We've been trial running these in Kent for the county council and they seem to be effective.
This is an example: http://www.greencone.com/how_it_works.asp?prid=10 Sadly, they're not cheap though. |
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| hedgewitch |
Just remember, whatever you do... don't feed it to the pigs !
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| lottie |
We try when we can to synchronise poultry/rabbit preparation with fruit tree/bush planting so the feathers,fur, head,innards go in the bottom of the hole---not had anything dug up yet and been doing it a long time---once we've finished planting we'll have to go to plan B. |