We have a goat bucket in the kitchen that we bring down to the goats every morning, loaded with goodies. With all the vegetables we eat, they get lots of colorful odds and ends to munch on. This bucket had broccoli stems, carrot ends, butternut squash skins, a few celery ends and apple cores. (We have a friend that eats their apple cores, but I’m not that “hard-core” yet….hehe.)
The animals on this homestead eat most of our kitchen scraps, and the ones they don’t go in the compost pile.
We pretty much clean our plates around here, but I love that everything we don’t eat, gets eaten one way or another and there’s no waste. Then the animals transform it into compost to enrich the garden. It’s a beautiful symbiotic system. And that’s one of the many things I love about homesteads and small farms.
And the joy that comes from watching the goats happily eat their treats is fun too!
Fennel comes to get her treats (she’s still a little shy of us.)
She is growing so fast.
She’s immensely curious.
Look at her little horn buds growing. Soon they will look like her sister’s below.
Jeff rubbed coconut oil on Faun’s lovely horns once an my how they shone!
Faun is as sweet as ever. I love her gentle spirit.
Fennel has a gentleness too, yet a whole lot more spunk! Her airplane ears crack me up.
If you would like to learn some interesting goat trivia today (something I didn’t know)
you can read this post here: Goat Teeth?
What do you do with your kitchen scraps?
Donna- That’s wonderful! And I bet you are very well loved by the birds!
Sarah- I hope you can have goats someday too, but they are so much fun. I love goats so much, I could write a book about it. 🙂 Sounds like it gets pretty hot where you are.
Brooklyn- Silly dogs indeed!
Yes, the bunny makes for great compost….we just put it straight in the gardens and flower beds. We also have to block our dogs from the garden or else they will pick everything clean before it ripens for us to eat. Silly dogs but I’m so happy nothing goes to waste around here.
Have a Beautiful Sunday Taryn!
You have such beautiful goats! I hope someday we live somewhere that we can have some. All our kitchen scraps end up in the compost pile. By now, it is overflowing and I’ll be happy when the hot desert sun cooks it down so we have more space.
Taryn, I LOVE the sweet goat faces! It’s wonderful how nothing goes to waste on your farm. We compost our kitchen scraps, creating rich amendments for our garden beds. We also put out some apple cores for the birds as an occasional treat… if the squirrels don’t get them first!
Hi Brooklyn!
I bet your pet rabbit makes some excellent compost! I’ve heard you can even put it straight on the garden without composting it first (same with goats.) Although we always compost it first anyways.
Dogs always surprise me what they like. Ours love to eat blackberries, huckleberries and blueberries off the vine. (That’s why we had to fence in our blueberries… the dogs were eating them all!)
You have a lucky rabbit and dogs. 🙂
We have a pet rabbit who runs our side yard and he is one lucky rabbit with all his fresh veggies my kids take out to him daily! We our very lucky as our dogs love veggies too….then anything else they can’t eat goes to the compost! So wonderful…