pity,I'm trying to find something to deal with the cooked and meat waste from the kitchen. I tried bokashi but that, while it worked, was too much hassle and somewhat temperamental.
Easiest option: Don't generate waste - eat what you buy/cook. Failing that, cooked veg matter can go in the normal compost bin, which only really leaves meat waste. I put bones out for the foxes, but if you don't like that idea or don't have foxes handy, bones can be burnt, buried (deep) or go to landfill. Waste fat is trickiest to deal with I suppose. I don't generate much and I put it in the landfill bin, but you could make fat balls for the birds, soap or cosmetics with it.
Finsky
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I've got Mary Appelhof's book "worms eat my garbage"..and there is description how to deal with meat and bone waste in wormery.
It is not recommended in big quantities..but small amounts of 'dinner waste that are chopped/broken/minced into smaller pieces can be dealt with in wormery as long as the wormery is working well. It might be problem during winter unless bin is kept in warmer place and worms are active.
Personally I would not put into any meat waste into wormery. Mine tends to deal with veg waste quite quickly so the contents have good turn over...animal waste would need more time.
But..I've put odd dead bird or other things into compost bin..dug them deep and left them be for long while when I've not been in hurry with using the contents.
You could always burn bones etc..and resulting ashes are fine to put into ground.
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TTouch Homestead
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Also just found these guys who state cooked and raw...
http://www.ridan.co.uk/homepage/
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JB
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Easiest option: Don't generate waste - eat what you buy/cook. |
Try telling that to a three year old (and for that matter Mrs JB)!
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| I put bones out for the foxes ... |
and rats and every other vermin and I'm not sure the chickens would appreciate my enticing foxes into the garden.
marigold
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Funny isn't it, that single households are regarded as bad for the environment because we don't share facilities, but no account it taken of the fact that we generate so much less waste than families!
Obviously you wouldn't want to attract foxes if you have chickens, though if the birds are securely housed they should be safe enough. Where I live the foxes live two gardens away and will visit anyway. If they were destroyed, others would come into the territory. I put waste out for them at dusk and they scoff it within the hour. Our foxes get very little human food since we got the wheelie bins and as they eat rats I reckon they are more useful than not in an urban garden. Cats kill the mice, dunno what the magpies and seagulls eat, but I can't think of any other vermin that is likely to invade my garden in the short time the bones are out there.
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dpack
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in a well maintained heap a few bits of animal waste are fine and will join the soil very rapidly
a mixture tub is another option
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