How to Use Fruit and Veggie Scraps
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have a lot of different ways that you can use produce or scraps of the |
| 0:18.0 | produce from the garden. A lot of people will regrow food scraps which we've |
| 0:22.0 | talked about before to varying levels of success. |
| 0:26.0 | But there's some things that would normally be waste that you can still use. |
| 0:30.0 | So for example, take like an orange peel. |
| 0:32.6 | That's a lot of waste if you think about it. |
| 0:34.9 | It's a decent amount of the orange. |
| 0:37.2 | So what can you do? |
| 0:38.0 | Well, you could certainly compost it, and that's your go-to. |
| 0:40.8 | I mean, really compost should be considered your trash, and I say. your that's where it should go is a default. But what else can you do? |
| 0:53.7 | You can actually turn them into candy |
| 0:56.3 | because they are perfectly edible. |
| 0:58.9 | They just don't taste the way that we want them to taste. |
| 1:01.8 | We'd much rather eat the inside of the orange. |
| 1:04.0 | So what you can do is take water, sugar, citrus peals, and a candy thermometer, and then you can just make |
| 1:10.7 | candy out of them. I'll do a recipe on that at some point in the future, but let's just say I'm interested. I'm very |
| 1:17.0 | interested in that idea. I love candy, although I'm not having sugar right now because I'm trying to |
| 1:21.3 | live a healthier life. Citrus peals, you can also turn them into a simple syrup or infuse them into a simple |
| 1:27.2 | syrup. So water, dissolved sugar, and then you just leave them in there for a while. |
| 1:32.5 | So a lot of different ways to use that. |
| 1:34.1 | A friend of mine will use Citrus Pills |
| 1:36.6 | to create natural cleaners. |
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