No Compost = More Deer Food

It occurred to me during my last trash post or 2 that I had forgotten to mention that we aren't composting anymore.

Not because we don't want to but because our composter was having issues and we had to empty it out. By completely emptying it we were going to have to start all over with the dirt and saved food scraps and we just couldn't seem to make ourselves do it.

I think the composter went south because we weren't really putting a lot into it other then coffee grinds and the occasional scrap.

We have lots of deer and birds where we live and they all like our backyard which is only just shy of being a forest. So that means bread crusts, rice, fruit and veggie and such gets tossed out back to feed the animals. Is that weird?

Any meat leftovers like fat and skin is given to the dogs. If there's a lot it's saved for them for later.

Then we had things like banana peels and onion skins which couldn't go in our automatic composter anyways.

So the only food garbage is peels, veggie skins and coffee rinds. I'm not sure if they're is something better that I could do with them but because I need to throw them in the trash I still have to use plastic garbage bags which I had been hoping to give up.

I suppose it's not too bad since what I'm throwing away is stuff that wouldn't have gone into the composter anyways, well except the coffee grinds. If we try it again I think I will go with something that can take those things like a tumbler composter or maybe a worm bin. The boys would probably really like having a worm bin.

Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with my composter. Anyone interested?