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Hello, I love your show so much. My name is Liefel Kristi. I live in Santa Rosa, California.

The neighbor that we normally get together with is staying in her house and we're staying in our house,

but we each have a game of banana grams, which is like Scravel.faster. Every week or so, we get on

FaceTime on the iPhone and we play banana grams together and we all start at the same time and then

when everybody is done, we turn the phone so that we can admire each other's work.

Thank you very much for your show. You're bringing a smile to my face during some really difficult times.

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If you're one of the millions of Americans now stuck at home because of the coronavirus,

maybe like me, you are cooking more now than you've ever cooked in your entire life. Every single meal

and snack is taking place in my kitchen and my food scraps are piling up.

I am meal planning. I am trying to reduce my food waste, but I just cannot eat a banana peel.

I cannot eat the top of my pineapple. But instead of sending those to the landfill,

there's something I can do with my food scraps that will help fight climate change.

I'm Julia Simon. Today, the MPR life kit for composting. It doesn't matter if you're in a suburban

home or in a tiny apartment, there are many different ways to compost. Anyone can do it.

We're going to teach you how to turn those banana peels into beautiful,

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