Coffee Grounds - For Your Best Compost Ever

You know, compost is my not-so-secret ingredient to having great soil and a productive garden. But what about the ingredients going into the compost? Well, I have a few favorites for that, including coffee grounds. So in today's video, I'm going to show you how to use coffee grounds in your compost and where to get a lot for free. In addition to the chicken manure bedding and the kitchen scraps and the yard debris that goes into my compost bin, there's one other secret ingredient that I use all the time and we've all heard about it. It's coffee grounds. Now this is a fantastic addition to your compost pile, too. Now I go by my grocery store about three or four times a week and right next door, there's my coffee shop. And they've gotten to know me pretty well by now. So they usually have a bag or two waiting for me. And if I go by there three or four times a week, these bags weigh about 15 pounds each. So that's roughly 50 pounds of coffee grounds I'm adding to my compost bin. And that is a lot of contribution. And I'm doing them a favor because I'm helping them eliminate the waste they've got to deal with. I get the coffee grounds from my compost bin, plus we're keeping it out of the landfill. And that's huge. Plus, I take those bags and I recycle them when I go back to the grocery store. So it's a win-win-win all the way around. So you might want to try getting to be good friends with your barista, too, because they might become your garden's best friend also.