"Now we recycle everything that we can," she said, including feeding vegetable scraps to the family's five chickens.

To make the stock, Mr. Flores uses vegetable scraps and goes from there.

For example, you don't have to wait until you have enough vegetable scraps to start.

They can eat and should be given a variety of fresh fruit and vegetable scraps.

Colour the vegetable scraps green and orange, and paint the bird in appropriate colours.

A container about 8 to 12 inches deep is lined with damp newspaper as a base and fruit and vegetable scraps.

Rather than wait the six weeks it would take for the thinnest, weakest true wine to form, they rushed the process by adding vegetable scraps and fruit.

Then add a green layer, like grass clippings mixed with vegetable scraps.

They don't know you can include vegetable scraps, fireplace ashes, coffee grounds, grass clippings, even pet hair.

We compost all our fruit and vegetable scraps instead of putting them in the rubbish.