Growing a Food Safe Garden with Victoria Pardo Uzitas | The Beet

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Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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As a food scientist, Victoria Pardo Uzitas has plenty of experience with food trends and food safety. As a gardener of over two decades, she folds her knowledge of both into her growing space. In this full episode of the Beet Podcast, she and Jacques discuss how to keep the garden food-safe, and how to enjoy the tantalizing flavor the garden provides. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3RQzbiK Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3VQcQ5I Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3W74OGY EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4cMuK03 Learn More: Are Galvanized Steel Garden Beds Safe?Connect With Victoria Pardo Uzitas: Victoria Pardo Uzitas is a distinguished Food Scientist with a remarkable track record of launching thousands of products, for hundreds of brands throughout the world. Having worked at Global Fortune 100 Food Companies, she is currently a Managing Partner at Ubiquity Biz, a Soup to Nuts boutique agency based in San Diego. She began growing her own food in 2000. Driven by her belief that "food can transform lives," Victoria finds her volunteer work at Kitchens for Good, a local nonprofit, exceptionally rewarding. Linkedin Ubiquity Biz Kitchen for Good Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire 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. Get Our BooksLooking 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.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Beat podcast. It's me, Jacques Likov, the Garden Hermit and today I'm
0:18.3	interviewing Victoria Pardo Eusitis and she is a food scientist who works in all sorts of
0:23.4	interesting different projects. She actually is involved in a lot of
0:26.2	interesting local projects around here in San Diego including local
0:29.4	charities and we're going to talk about all sorts of interesting topics around
0:32.4	food safety and everything in between.
0:34.6	So welcome on to the podcast.
0:36.6	Why don't you give us a little background about what you do and who you are?
0:40.3	Thank you, Jacques. I'm thrilled to be here. I'm a long time fan. I am a food scientist. I was classically trained in the Fortune 100 global food companies.
0:51.0	And in the last decade, in the last decade I have started my own business. It's the
0:56.4	ubiquity business, the soup to nuts, and we launch food products in
1:00.4	consumer package goods arena. So those are packages that you would see out in retail.
1:05.0	Oh, okay, very cool. So is your background for food science is, sounds like you're very focused on food safety and like development of recipes that are
1:16.6	also delicious but also safe. So like what goes into that process of bringing in something like that for the consumer.
1:24.0	I always considered food scientists now, you know, we're getting this popularity because of
1:29.1	foodies, but back in the day, food science is actually a interdisciplinary study at a university usually in a college of agriculture and agricultural science.
1:40.0	So it's your chemistry, your biology, your biology, your
1:43.4	microbiology, and your food processing.
1:46.6	And I always consider food scientists
1:49.1	as the superheroes of the food business
1:51.4	because our number one goal, whether any part, because food
1:55.2	scientists can realm from, you know, controllers and quality and regulatory to developing
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