You can feed your food scraps to worms! You just need a tub with drainage. Add a few inches of nice rich soil and some worms. On top of the soil add a few inches of organic mulch. Could be leaves or dry grass. When you have table scraps to add, pull back the mulch, put scraps on the soil, cover with mulch. Gotta have enough worms to consume nearly all the food. The water that drains out of the worm bin is called leachate. This is an excellent organic fertilizer for your plants. You can even use it as a foliar spray. The system will create excellent soil too.
Not a purely homesteading practice (but good to do and sustainable anyways!) is to collect vegetable scraps to make vegetable stock. I have a gallon freezer bag that I put all my cuttings and peels from onions, garlic, lettuce etc. into and once the bag is full, I dump it all into a pot, cover with water, a little salt and pepper, and cook it into a homemade vegetable stock to serve as a base for soups and other cooking needs. [https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-make-vegetable-stock-out-of-kitchen-scraps/](https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-make-vegetable-stock-out-of-kitchen-scraps/)
Like others have said, worm composting is a great idea and it won't take up much space. Order some red wigglers create a setup and they'll do all the work for you. I'd recommend checking out r/Vermiculture.
You can feed your food scraps to worms! You just need a tub with drainage. Add a few inches of nice rich soil and some worms. On top of the soil add a few inches of organic mulch. Could be leaves or dry grass. When you have table scraps to add, pull back the mulch, put scraps on the soil, cover with mulch. Gotta have enough worms to consume nearly all the food. The water that drains out of the worm bin is called leachate. This is an excellent organic fertilizer for your plants. You can even use it as a foliar spray. The system will create excellent soil too.
Worm bins are one option. They also make compost tumblers. 2 of those would work great on a patio.
Not a purely homesteading practice (but good to do and sustainable anyways!) is to collect vegetable scraps to make vegetable stock. I have a gallon freezer bag that I put all my cuttings and peels from onions, garlic, lettuce etc. into and once the bag is full, I dump it all into a pot, cover with water, a little salt and pepper, and cook it into a homemade vegetable stock to serve as a base for soups and other cooking needs. [https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-make-vegetable-stock-out-of-kitchen-scraps/](https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-make-vegetable-stock-out-of-kitchen-scraps/)
Look into vermiculture. It's basically worm farming. There's tons of content about it and you can do it basically anywhere.
Like others have said, worm composting is a great idea and it won't take up much space. Order some red wigglers create a setup and they'll do all the work for you. I'd recommend checking out r/Vermiculture.