Caity McCardell

Todd Parr wrote: My suggestion would be the same as yours: spread it out enough that you don't get a stinking slimy anaerobic mess.

Encouraging! Thank you all so much for the responses (my first time posting

Marco Banks wrote: It would take a massive BSF bin to absorb that volume of food scraps, but they multiple quickly, and it would covert that much food waste into several pounds of soldier fly larva every day once your colony had grown large enough.

Wow - that sounds amazing - I'm definitely going to look into soldier fly larva.

My husband told me this morning he's pretty much done with having all the restaurant scraps and wants to pare down to just one restaurant. It's still a lot of food waste! I'll look into those larva!

Todd Parr wrote:Is it all vegetables and fruits?

Belated response - yes it is all vegetables and fruit, some onion and garlic.

I guess I'm hoping I'm not making a mistake by piling up loads of compostable material each day. Like some day it'll just smell bad and take over. It's really good material, BTW - it's unbelievable what restaurants throw away in their food prep process (perfectly good lettuce, etc.).

Hi!
I collect about 30 gallons of food waste from restaurants each day. It fills my huge rotating composter in two days. I'm a lazy composter, so the rest I throw on my 1/4 acre empty property and let the chickens have at it. Sometimes I cover it with something like soil or mulch and just let it be. Is there any part of this "plan" that won't work?