What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. My name is Kevin. Today we're going to talk about something pretty interesting that I learned on a farm tour recently and I'd heard about it before I think from a TED Talk and this is the

Black Soldier Fly Larva. Now there are a lot of different ways to add fertility to your soil, to use composting systems, to use some

sort of permaculture practice in your home garden. And here's what's the crazy thing is we all know about worm

composting we all know about normal composting we all know about using organic

fertilizers in our garden.

But what about farming a larva

that you can then feed to chickens

or just eliminate your food waste much quicker.

We're going to get into that in the episode,

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Okay.

Black soldier fly larva.

These larva will eat kilograms of scrap food a night in a small composting unit.

So basically before your food waste can even begin to start rotting,

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