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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Going Beyond Farm to Table

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

It’s always a good idea to use as much of your own produce in your kitchen. After all, that’s why we grow it, right? But what about other ways we can use the plants that we grow in the garden? Chris Starkus joins us to discuss some of his favorite ways. Connect With Chris Starkus: After being a professional chef for 25 years, Chris Starkus pivoted his career and became an eco-entrepreneur, partner and CSO of Boss Defrost.  He is also a Journeyman beekeeper, Organic Farmer, committed to 360-degree sustainability and transparency. Boss Defrost (Instagram) Chris Starkus' Instagram | Twitter Lost Creek Microfarm | Instagram |Twitter Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone?

0:04.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Evergardening

0:15.6

podcast. We are joined again by the Amazing Chris Starkus,

0:19.9

former executive chef over at Urban Farmer Denver, and also a past guest on the podcast or last time he was on we talked a lot about

0:28.0

His work in the kitchen as well as the farm lost Creek micro, the farm that he manages and runs.

0:34.0

Now today we are talking about, we hear the word farm to table all the time or let's say you're

0:40.5

in the home garden you hear plot to plate or some sort of colloquialism like that and I think it's fantastic

0:46.5

obviously we're growing local produce and we're repurposing it immediately onto our plate so we can eat it. But is there more that we can do?

0:54.3

Are there some other things that don't involve necessarily

0:57.7

eating what we grow, but using it in some other way?

1:00.7

And so, Chris, just before recording recording this we were talking about a couple

1:03.7

ideas and you had some ones that I'd never heard it before so maybe we could

1:06.8

start off with some of your favorites. Yeah you got it I think that for me you know as we

1:11.6

talked about I'm a beekeepers.

1:12.8

So having the hive, which what I was called

1:16.7

the whole high philosophy for a while would basically be using,

1:19.7

you know, you're using the pollen and the wax and whatnot

1:22.2

to make certain things.

1:23.7

We've been making our own deodorant here with that bees wax, you know, it's

1:27.2

an essential oils and essentially you can use that same plastic

1:32.3

container or reusable container and that's something that you have out in your yard.

1:37.8

You know, reusable bee cloth so you take like a pine pitch and bees wax and you put it over linen and that's what you can use as a

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