Free Food

[tigtoy]

great deal.

 

[caspernc]

We are in a small town but REALLY. OK we are in NC and we compost ourselves and won't pay for someone else to do it for us. I' just tickled silly. I do want to make sure i don't give them too much...They do need to eat chicken food also. HEY I'l try the egg section to get the broken eggs to feed back, They love srambled eggs!!!!!

 

[BellevueOmlet]

I finally got free food!!! I went to a grocery store and tlaked to the produce guy. He let me pick through his bin for food to give my chickens.

My chickens were so happy!!!! A huge variety of greens and all colors for them to peck through, and it looked good enough for me to eat (no, I didn't

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Time to stock up on grit

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

Right now, I'm getting plenty of free food from my yard.


I have several different easy to pull weeds growing wild in the yard, but the rest of the lawn isn't growing yet. So we are paying my seven year old and her friend a dollar a bucket full to pull the weeds.


It gives my daughter a way to EARN money, and it keeps my chickens well supplied with fresh, green weeds....

 

[llaaadyel]

During the summer I pull a lot of weeds and things right from the yard too. Right now its still too cold here and nothing much is blooming yet.

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[Squishypuff]

How do you know which weeds are safe to feed? Sorry if there is already a thread about that, I was just curious.

 

[Ariel301]

Nice!

Our grocery store used to give all the old produce and bread to a friend of mine whose husband works for the store, but then changed their policy. Now it all goes in the dumpster and the dumpster is locked so no one can take it. They won't even sell it at a low price, too afraid that someone will eat it and sue them if they get sick or eat it and not buy fresh produce at full price. This same grocery store is throwing away $300 display refrigerators/freezers brand new in the box also--they get them from their suppliers for displaying food in, but they don't use them. I DID manage to snag one of those.

 

[Autumnwolf12]

That is a very good idea! My mom used to get bread from a bakery outlet that was outdated for her ducks, but for some reason I never thought of the grocery store idea.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Yeah they don't do that anywhere down here either, must be something with all the California laws...

 

[quintinp]

my mom told me about when she was a girl that she had a pig and all that it ate was scraps, they went to grocery stores dumpsters, and gave their pig the dump treasures, they also kept some stuff too, (they didn't have a lot of money), but they made best with what they were offered, or what they had