3 Ways to Waste Less Food

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Click here to get $10 off your first Imperfect Foods delivery Reilly Brock of Imperfect Foods and I discuss a few creative ways to waste less food, whether it's coming from the garden or the grocery. Try Imperfect Foods $10 off your first Imperfect Foods Delivery Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up everyone?
0:04.0	What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are back, let's call it
0:18.3	Imperfect Week. We have Riley Brock from Imperfect Foods on. Perfect Foods is a grocery delivery service that's focused on building a better food system and I think as gardeners, we're sort of trying to build our own food system in our backyard, but honestly in the aggregate that actually does improve the food system as a whole.
0:34.0	Because in theory if you wanted to you could just be growing the highest value, highest prize, most perishable stuff in your backyard,
0:40.0	and delete quite a bit of the demand of some of that stuff from Elgin' backyard and
0:45.0	we've talked about that a lot on the podcast but there are a lot of
0:49.0	things you can do to waste less food in general and actually I'm sure you guys know Riley but I'm
0:55.8	curious what you think what would you say would be the the foods that are
1:00.8	purchased from a grocery store that are the most wasted as a whole.
1:04.4	Do you have any idea of that?
1:05.4	I mean, I'd say herbs and lettuces have to be near the top.
1:09.6	Yeah.
1:10.6	I mean, if we're talking about your turf here in terms of gardening herbs and lettuces are incredibly perishable
1:16.4	By the time you buy them from the store, you know they've been out you know out of the ground for several days if not several weeks
1:22.3	So they're not long for this world to begin with and when you bring them home
1:26.7	We'll get to this in a bit but a lot of people don't store them properly so they wilt like that and then if farewellilantro, farewell lettuce, farewell kale.
1:35.0	I think in terms of other like more higher resource input stuff,
1:39.0	I will also just say that dairy products get wasted a lot.
1:42.0	A lot of people either buy too much milk or they let it go bad or, you know, they don't store their eggs the right way.
1:47.6	So that's definitely another troubling one. But in terms of your world, definitely anything leafy and green is often dies in the fridge.
1:55.0	It's really interesting that that's the case.
1:57.4	I mean, it kind of stands to reason because they're very water intensive crops.
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