market stall waste

[Alison Adams]

Has anyone ever gone to their local market at packing up time and asked for any fruit and veg waste ? I dont mean edible things, I mean chopped off leaves and squashed things, to put into compost or to make a bean trench perhaps ?
It should be a quick way to get lots of good compostable material and possibly even be a favour for the stall holders who wold have to dispose of it somehow. Or maybe I am way behind the curve and there are fights for this stuff between local growers ?!

[lettucegrow!]

You must be a very dedicated composter !! Never thought of doing that!

[Alison Adams]

I havent done it yet either ! I just thought of it today and wondered if it was common practice. I do want more compost than usual at present as I am establishing a new plot, so this is something I'll try and let you know how I get on.

[Stacey Steve]

I know that a person who has some pigs and chickens has all the green waste from our local market stall, well infact he has everything other than onions and citrus fruit.

[Snadger]

I know that a person who has some pigs and chickens has all the green waste from our local market stall, well infact he has everything other than onions and citrus fruit.

My chooks eat onions.........but won't touch oranges and lemons!

[janeyo]

I always ask for leaves for the chooks and get the old carrot tops and brassica leaves etc that no-one wants and they tear off. Not thought of composting them though.

[JILLY JACKSON]

Brilliant idea!!

[tamsin]

We've asked for cabbage leaves, carrot tops etc. to feed to the rabbits.

[Two_Sheds]

I don't use a market (grow my own!) but I do empty the school's fruit bins and the staffroom bin which is full of teabags for my compost heap

[penny]

Hi when we kept goats I asked for the waste at the greengrocers and he was very happy for me to collect on a saturday evening, we ate loads of it ourselves as nothing was wrong with it exscept he always put fresh out on a monday. There was always a dozen or so large boxes and the deal was we took it all and left the place tidy, which we did for several years.

[lez]

Yes. I asked the stall holder who has a veg stall and uses our carpark what he did with all the stuff he could'nt sell. He said it was a problem so I have it all off him now chop it up and compost it. Some on site are annoying though as if I am not there when he delivers they will go though the boxes and take stuff presumably for home but they do leave a mess. One sat morn i saw he had left some nice caulis I went to the garage for 1/2 an hour and when I came back all had been nicked. I have been going about 5 years now. It gives me some nice compost and saves him money as he has to pay to dump it.