I have a friend who gladly takes them and uses them in his vegetable garden. I think he rototiller them into the ground and uses them as plant food.I've been trying to find a good way to dispose of spent grains. I'm thinking I'm just going to buy some heavy duty bags that'll hold the weight, bag them and throw them in the garbage can. They don't seem to compost very well...? (By compost, I mean spread out at the base of a pine tree lol).
Anyone have any creative ways of disposing of spent grains? I'm not looking to bake with them or anything crazy like that.
I reckon you could write weekly columns - had some good chuckles at thisvariety of things
if I'm feeling lazy, I'll dig a big hole in the side garden on the other side of my backyard fence drop it in there and cover it up with dirt.
or maybe I'll dump some into my worm composter. I've got a really stinky one (just a big pot full of dirt, coffee grounds and fruit scraps) and a proper stacking worm house.
or I'll ziplock a couple bags and throw them in the freezer
or I'll dry 3 big cookie pans worth...because that is all my oven will fit and it takes for flippin ever...
or maybe make some bread with the wet grain straight away...
think I've used either dried grains or ground dried grains so far in..sourdough bread, sandwich bread, a couple different cookie recipes and banana bread.
I've been thinking about asking a neighbor down the street if they would be interested in taking some off of my hands as they have some fancy chickens hanging out in their yard. Too much talking and explaining why I'm standing at their door in covid times....this can wait.
There is a micro brewery not that far from me that donates their grains to a local farmer and I have asked them if I could bring my own by to donate as well in the past. But..I was only a casual fan of their beer...and they seem to have gotten worse in quality the past few months. "Here are some grains that I wanted to donate to the farmer you guys know....no....I don't want any of your beer, sorry." Convo that I'm not really wanting to have.
I've oft mentioned my spent grains usually go to the neighbor's chickens (and now, ducks) but that I have been composting batches that used rice hulls out of concern they might harm said fowl.
This thread might be the ideal place to ask: is my concern unfounded?
Similarly, I dump them in the pond next to my house.When I lived in Key West I fed the fishes the spent grain in the canal. they loved it
When I lived in Key West I fed the fishes the spent grain in the canal. they loved it
The concern about birds and rice is the expansion of raw rice kernels post-ingestation. A quick Google search brings up a ton of hits regarding hulls as feed supplement. Maybe run it by your neighbor for their ok?
the movie Snatch comes to mind...Mine go to a local pig farmer, those mofo's will eat anything
Bambi's DelightApparently this winter has been tough enough on the local deer herd that they decided rice hulls are not that big an impediment to enjoying ~25 pounds of spent barley malt. Which is good because with two feet of snow my neighbor's chickens and ducks won't leave their shelter, so it was either the deer or the compost pile. The back end of the property is totally overrun by deer tracks from multiple quadrants heading straight to where I dumped the mash - which was gone in two days.
Another batch coming tomorrow. Feels like a mission now
Cheers!
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