Chickens are a fantastic way to repurpose food scraps, but if eggs aren’t in your diet or you’ve got scraps chickens don’t care for (I’m talking about you, citrus rinds and pepper seeds), composting is a wonderful way to go “table-to-farm,” as we say in my house.
A pile on the ground is a simple system. If you can’t put a pile just outside your kitchen or you have limited space, buying a tumbler-style composter may be tempting. These make the turning a cinch, but because the compost isn’t in contact with the ground, it doesn’t benefit from the Earth’s heat. The compost itself will generate heat, but when the weather is
