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🗓️ 3 March 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In our last episode with Claire, we get into how The Urban Food Loop works. It's a community composting business that she runs with her husband and her insights are great for anyone who wants to start a similar business!
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0:00.0 | What's going on everyone out there in the world? It's Kevin from the Epic Gardening |
0:05.4 | podcast. Today we're talking with Claire for the final episode of this series |
0:09.6 | with her and we're talking about her business that she runs with her husband out in Little Rock. |
0:14.7 | It's called the Urban Food Loop, which is actually a wonderful name for it, because what it is, |
0:21.4 | is a community composting business. |
0:24.0 | They take food scraps from a variety of customers that they've signed up around their area |
0:30.0 | and they aggregate all of those food scraps in conjunction with a partnership with the local zoo, |
0:37.0 | which I found absolutely fascinating, and they compost all of those food scraps for their customers |
0:43.5 | and then either distributed out back to their customers |
0:46.7 | for that monthly fee, |
0:48.1 | or the customers can choose to put it in a gleaning garden, |
0:52.2 | which means that all of that produce will end up |
0:54.4 | being donated to food banks or other organizations that really need that |
0:58.9 | produce. Okay that's it thank you so much for tuning in to this series with Claire. |
1:04.4 | If you have any ideas for guests that you'd like to have on the show, just send me an email |
1:09.2 | Kevin at epic gardening.com or you can go to epic gardening.com forward slash podcast and just send me in a |
1:15.3 | question or a guest suggestion there and I would absolutely love to have more |
1:19.6 | people like Claire on. All right let's get into the episode. |
1:23.0 | And I think that kind of brings us to what you guys are up to out in Little Rock too, with the |
1:26.5 | urban food loop. |
1:27.5 | And so I think for a lot of people, they don't really understand the business model or just |
1:32.3 | how the whole system works, because it might not be in |
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