What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we have another

guest for the next week. It's my friend Jared who is the owner of a company called

Upcycle here in San Diego and we're to get to that later on this week but the first

thing we're going to talk about is something that I think most people don't really know

unless you're pretty deep in the homesteading permaculture world, you probably haven't really

experimented with this. And that is something called biosolids. Now, before I get into exactly what

that is, I'm going to let Jared come in and drop some knowledge because he makes a product that uses bio solids

and a lot of people are confused on what those are and why they might be beneficial so let's go ahead and kick it off with Jared.

All right Kevin, thank you very much for having me on the epic gardening show today.

Really excited to be here. So bio-solids are a very interesting and very sustainable source of nutrients that you can use in

soil for gardening, for brownfield mitigation, really any type of environmental project.

Biosolids are derived from human waste and from food scraps.

The Chinese have been using this approach for over 5,000 years and they have some of the richest soils in the world.

By taking biosolids that we source locally here in Southern California, and really you can source anywhere around the world,

we're able to take a waste product that would otherwise get shipped potentially hundreds to thousands of miles away,

and we're able to put it back in the soil to help grow more food.

When the human body processes its food is often leftover and that's what we expel as

excrement.

That excrement contains nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, really all the things

that we need to put back in the soil to grow plants.

Now there's different ways to treat biosolids.

Many people out there frankly are concerned about biosolids and it's because they can come from any wastewater treatment plant anywhere in the country.

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