Composting food waste

 Much of our food waste I give to my chickens, but some (mostly
vegetable scraps) I do not. Those, I would like to somehow compost. I
already have a compost pile for chicken bedding (leaves and grass),
more leaves and grass. I am reluctant to throw food stuff in that pile
due to raccoons and other pests.

For now, I decided to simply dump these wastes into a garbage bin with
a nice closeable lid that cannot be removed by raccoons, hopeing that
it will rot in time, and that then I will add it to the compost pile
when it finally rots. I read exciting things about worm composting, is
it worth the trouble?

Or, maybe, I can store food scraps in the bin, and when I turn over the
pile, I would dump them into the middle of the pile?

i

 Ignoramus15978 wrote:

Why not give the veggie scraps to the chickens?

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Travis in Shoreline Washington

 
I don't think they eat them...

i

 
They do.

 
This is what I do, I store the kitchen scraps in a can until they rot,
then add them to the compost pile. The rodent and raccoon situation
has noticeably improved compared to when I added them directly to the
compost. I also add some brown material (leaves or wood chips), it
does three things: kitchen scraps compost is a bit too strong fir
plants, and specially the leaves mellow it, the brown material absorbs
the excess nitrogen, so the compost is more fertile, and it strongly
reduces bad smell. The only con is that this way the trash can needs
emptying thrice as often.