Composting as a Gig

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Connect With Alyssa Brodsky: I am the web builder, creating a compost network at Food2Soil. Our farm Ranchito Milkyway is in Bonita, California. We are no-till, organic veggie farming and dabble in Korean natural farming, vermicomposting, etc. We also have a DIY nursery set up! Our CSA box is sold weekly with farm pick up and we included gleaned fruit from the area. Food2Soil Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As you know, it's actually possible to make money composting for other people.
0:19.5	Well, it is, and in today's episode we have a list of Bratski back on this show from
0:24.4	Food to Soil.
0:25.8	So how exactly does this work list?
0:29.0	It sounds like a pretty cool model for someone who's really into gardening and just taking
0:33.2	care of the earth.
0:34.2	Yeah, definitely.
0:35.2	Food to Soil model of a decentralized composting network where people are paid to process
0:41.0	the food scraps.
0:42.7	What happens is people subscribe to a location.
0:46.2	So let's say you are a soil farmer, Kevin, and you have two carts outside of your house.
0:51.1	One's full of mulch and one's empty.
0:54.0	People are going to toss their scraps in your bin.
0:57.0	They get a lock code and they toss their scraps and then they top that off with a layer
1:03.0	of mulch.
1:04.0	And then 15 people are subscribed to your location.
1:07.2	So people are coming.
1:08.2	They're dropping off the food scraps and they're covering it with mulch.
1:11.2	And then you process that cart into compost.
1:17.5	All of those subscription fees, if everyone's paying $15 a month, in Food to Soil model,
1:22.4	you get 70% of that.
1:24.0	And so the 30% goes into the back end stuff for food to Soil and then you get the majority
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