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Unless your land is well fenced, you will attract all sorts of  
critters how don't care that the food is out-of-date.

Ginda

On Feb 11, 2007, at 5:38 PM, Mark & Helen Angermayer wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I had a question about adding organic matter to the soil.  Here is the
> situation.  Our church has a caring ministry in which they distribute
> thousands of pounds of food every month to any in need.  A lot of  
> the food
> comes from grocery stores and is very close to out-of-date.  Most  
> of it is
> still good enough to give away, however some is too old and must be  
> thrown
> out.  It fills up the dumpster, and they would like for someone to  
> be able
> to make use of the old food.  I have a low spot in the backyard I  
> am trying
> to level out and am considering using the old food as a compost/fill
> material for the spot.  My question is, do you think it would be a  
> good
> idea?  What are some of the risks/downsides?  The old food consists of
> mostly old fruit, vegetables, and bread.  They haven't been able to  
> find any
> farmers to take the old food for livestock feed, plus there are some
> prohibitions involved in feeding "garbage" to livestock.(at least  
> for swine,
> it is illegal to feed raw garbage, it must be cooked).  Appreciate  
> your
> thoughts.
>
> Mark Angermayer
> Zone 5 Kansas
>
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