Spent Malted Grain Disposal Question

[max4677]

My tomato plants loved the stuff, but they didn't have the normal acidic tang they normally do. *shrug*

 

[(nevin)]

Can we flag this thread as a "Best of" like craigslist, I don't think I've laughed so much on these forums.

 

[JeanLucD]

Awww If only I had the problem of figuring out what to do with my spent malt, , I'd have to actually go AG first XD.

 

[WortMonger]

Wortmonger - have you found anything about growing mushrooms on grain? Our chickens get my spent grain now but wouldn't mind some mushrooms

GT

Sounds like you are set up perfect for this type of thing. Here is a link. Here is the video that got me excited about owning a greenhouse one day. It tells the whole story too. Very interesting stuff. You should also take a look at the sewage management stuff from Ocean Ark International. John Todd is one cool dude.

 

[kvh]

I don't go through nearly as much as you, but I live in a row-home apartment now with limited backyard access. I used to dump my grains in my composter at my old apartment, but now I take them out my back window and up to the roof where I dump them for the birds....

If you dump them with enough regularity, they'll quickly learn to eat it all the time, which means it won't last long. The first time I dumped it on my roof, it took almost a month to get noticed. Now it disappears within a day or two.

kvh.

 

[Danny013]

I feed it to SWMBO's horse.

 

[Henryinoregon]

Pretty much any farm will be happy to take the spent grains. This town is chock full of brewpubs, you could always ask them what they do with their spent grains.

Henry, I can give you my ex wife's address in Gresham you can dump your spent grains on. It's a blue car, and go ahead and put them all over the hood and into the air vents in the middle of the night....

/not bitter

already done sir!

 

[teu1003]

I think Ed has posted that pic before, and the first time I saw it, I started spreading out my spent grains in an effort to attract deer. To this day (probably 2 years later) I have yet to see a single deer anywhere near it. Our neighborhood has deer EVERYWHERE ... you cant drive through it at night without seeing them. The only place they DON'T seem to be is near that stupid spent grain, every morsel of which is still in my back yard.