So I thought I was so smart...

Well the first few days I was here, I mentioned to my host family that I always put my eggshells plus other vegetable scraps in a compost pile , that eventually fertilizes the garden.... Thinking I was teaching my host family something new... And clever.

Well two weeks later I realize that they recycle their scraps so they don't have them to use in compost.
1. All table scraps are thrown out the kitchen window for the chickens.
2. All meat scraps are thrown a little further, for the neighbor dog, Jimmie.
3. Eggshells are fed to the chickens (sounds weird, doesn't it, but I watched them eat the shells) or they are ground up and used for calcium supplements!
4. Walnuts are ground up for many dishes, including this great eggplant salad, but the black part inside that isn't eaten, is ground up and mixed with vodka to make the lovely tan color for cognac. I made my first cognac with it.

And speaking of cognac, I had some rose cognac. It was great and smelled and tasted like roses!

And speaking of roses, they should be out soon, and promise to be spectacular. Almost every home has bountiful bushes.

But that's for another day.  Here is grama Nellie with our recycler on the kitchen window ledge..