What is up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. We're here with

Lisa Steele, the founder of Fresh Eggs Daily and the author of Gardening with

Chickens. We're going to be changing it up a little bit and talking about composting with

chickens. How can you incorporate some of the benefits of chickens into your

composting processes no matter what type of composting you're doing.

So I know I have some of my ideas based on some of the stuff that we've talked about this week,

Lisa, but I would love to hear from you how at your home and your garden do chickens fit into your composting routine?

Sure.

Yeah, they are incredibly helpful with composting.

It's funny, I was actually speaking at a garden show a couple years ago and there were a bunch of garden

standing around during the break talking about their compost bins or compost piles and somebody

asked me, I think about one of those revolving, you composters and I said we don't have a

compost pile and to a gardener I mean that's kind of like sacrilege and everybody just

stopped and looked at me and I said we have chickens and they were like oh okay because

what you're really doing when you raise chickens is you're taking out the middle man

so instead of taking your kitchen scraps or whatever it is that you're going to

be throwing into your compost pile and let it, you know, decompose and turn into soil, what

you do is you feed it to your chickens instead, they basically decompose it for you, they poop, and now you've got manure.

So it's sort of a little bit of a different composting method, but you really don't need a compost pile per se.

I can honestly say we waste no food at our house. Literally nothing goes to waste because either the chickens

eat it, the dog eats it, or things like, you know, coffee grounds or tea bags or

egg shells or whatever can go right into the garden.

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