What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Happy Tuesday. This is Kevin. We're going to talk today with my friend Claire who is also known as Garden of Ohm on Instagram. She is a Yogini and a food composter. She runs the

Urban Food Loop out in Little Rock, Arkansas with her husband as a business. So it's a

really cool community composting business. So we're going to have her on to talk a little bit about

kind of how she got into this field in general, some of her experiments with public parks, why we need to think about building soil instead of growing plants, because

soil is what grows the plants, and then maybe some basic home composting, as well as if some of

you out there are interested in starting a business

composting well we're going to talk about that as well but this very first

episode with Claire we're going to just talk about how she got into all of this

where she learned all of this and how she got into all of this, where she learned all of this, and how she ended up where she is today.

So without further ado, let's kick it off with Claire.

Absolutely, absolutely.

So my journey really began in college. I was kind of known as the Earth Day

girl back at my school because I took an environmental science class my freshman year and got super passionate about all these issues that I had never really thought about before.

I didn't grow up in a family that talked about climate change or talked about sustainable farming and the practices that we were using to grow food for the whole world.

And so that was the first time my eyes were really opened to a different way of thinking about things and I just got super fired up and wanted to do as much as I could to reduce the waste that I saw, especially living on a college campus.

You know, recycling is not a big thing, certainly not composting, not at that point anyway.

And so I started getting really involved in the Campus Environmental Coalition.

I ran our campus's Earth Day events for a while.

And that was just kind of my, one of my identities in college and I loved it. I love the community aspect. I love the education aspect.

And I knew that I would continue going along those lines once I got to grad school and I did take a year off to do the

AmeriCorps in between grad school and ended up working at a homeless shelter

here in Little Rock where I live and didn't really have any intentions to make that any kind of gardening position or growing food or anything like that.

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