Making bonemeal for your garden helps control the quality of the bone meal, making it from the anti-biotic and hormone free bones from your dinner. This can be done with any type of bones.
To do this, place the bones into a cooking pot and cover them with water. Add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar per quart of water. Bring this to a boil until cooked down to the last bits of water, then simmer that off too. This all breaks down the constituents of bone and makes them soft enough to break. Now, place the bones into a baking dish and bake in the oven on low heat until they are dry and brittle. Cool, put into a plastic bag, wrap that in a dish towel, put that into another plastic bag. Either hit this bag against some cement or a rock, or just take a hammer to the bag. This can be stored in a can for use when needed.
Mix the bone meal into the soil around your herbs or into the soil before planting. It’s a good source of phosphorus, which helps with root system growth, for better flower, fruit and seed development, and vitamin content. Also a source of nitrogen, which is a general herb growth promoter and helps the herbs ability to make proteins. Nitrogen tends to give strength and vigor to sickly, spindly herbs.
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Suburbhomestead 
You manage to know how to do some of the neatest things I didn’t even know anyone could do from scratch. 🙂
I’m really intrigued, but I have a basic question. I don’t have a lot of bones–all at once, I mean! Could they be frozen and collected until I have enough to make this worth the effort? I love the concept of it being so pure, as well as the idea that it we would literally be using “everything.” I do know the benefits of bone meal, and I’d like to make my own, if I could accumulate enough bones for the project 🙂 Debra
I do freeze mine until I have enough.
What a great idea. Crazy that I never thought of this before. What a great use for the bones after you’re done making homemade chicken/beef stock!