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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Participate in the cycle of life and sequester some carbon while you’re at it — even if you don’t have a city-provided green bin! Caleigh Wells and Candice Dickens-Russell geek out about their own composting methods, and discuss what they’ve learned from an urban farm owner.
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0:00.0 | Kaley, what are people's reactions when they find out about your whole composting gymnastics |
0:04.8 | that you've got going on over there? |
0:06.8 | Gymnastics. |
0:07.8 | Positive. I think it's cool, but they're a little bewildered because like it takes up half my |
0:11.9 | freezer. Yeah, you got to explain that. That it up half my freezer. |
0:12.5 | Yeah, you gotta explain that. |
0:14.1 | That it's in my freezer? |
0:14.9 | Yeah. |
0:15.9 | Well, because I can't just like put it all on my counter. |
0:20.1 | It's gonna start smelling and I'm gonna get fruit flies and like my whole building had ants. |
0:24.5 | So I stick it all in the freezer because it takes me like three weeks to have enough to like to take it over |
0:30.1 | to my community garden. Yeah. Okay. And so then it's not like actively molding and getting all gross. |
0:35.0 | Okay, no that's a commitment. |
0:37.0 | So I literally will like it's like sits in a freezer drawer and when I'm when the |
0:41.2 | freezer door is full I pull out the entire |
0:42.9 | freezer drawer stick that in my trunk drive over to the community garden. |
0:45.8 | So I admit that it sounds like a lot of effort but it is worth it to me. |
0:49.4 | Is it worth it to you? |
0:50.8 | You composting Oh, totally. We compost. We're committed to composting. We've got the normal system though, not like your system. |
0:55.8 | Okay, okay, well I want to hear more about that normal system. So I know it's worth it to you, it's worth it to me. |
1:01.6 | One of our listeners, not so sure. Her name is Agnieska Spieshna and she's a freelance |
1:07.0 | editor living in Hancock Park and it's not that she hasn't composted before, she used to when she |
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