Making your own compost at home is a very easy process, setting aside an area in your garden for a hot compost pile, or even a compost bin, buried, or discreetly placed under a tree, can quickly reduce your kitchen scraps, into a viable, mineral rich additive for your garden beds.
Chickens
There are so many benefits to keeping chickens. Apart from their warm companionship, they also turn your food waste into organic, protein rich eggs. They minimise weeds in your garden, provide pest control, as well as providing a reason for kids to get out and about in the garden.
Evidence of chicken domestication dates back nearly 10,000 years. Although, it is believed that for the first 7,800 years, our relationship with them only involved the collection of eggs, and the chickens themselves, were not consumed. Currently, chickens outnumber humans nearly 3 to 1. Check with your local council before committing to building a coop though, as some areas have restrictions on the amount and placement of chickens within more densely populated urban areas.