What to do with all those Stems

If you don't want to saute your stems or eat the greens, you have a few options:
1. Make veggie stock or soup stock. Mostly in the fall, when the hens are processed, I make a lot of soup stock. But you can also make a straight veggie stock. Check the recipe blog for recipes. I can it in pint-sized containers and store in the pantry and use when needed. It's cheaper than the box stock you buy from the store and you know what's in it.
2. Feed them to your goat or chicken
3. Compost the waste. Watch warnings from me though - sometimes we'll get a fungus that you might not want to bring over to your garden so you might not want to compost unless you know that you're maintaining a hot pile.

I don't suggest running these through your garbage disposal. We had a member shove a large amount of kale ribs into her disposal last year and she had to call the plumber to snake the drain. No fun.

You can always bring veggie scraps here and feed them to the goats. Just remember - no stringy uncooked things like cucumber peelings for the chickens. They don't have teeth to break up the strings. Also no moldy veggies.