It’s Not “Waste” Until It’s Wasted

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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What are the differences between hot and cold compost, and indoor and outdoor compost? Are there set rules for what food waste you can compost, and what should be left out? Here, Kate Flood, the Compost Coach, discusses her favorite composting methods, and the 4 universal components all compost should have. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QgqgGP Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/45wT7eu Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3QhXpkn EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3FhHUU7 Connect With Kate Flood: Kate Flood is happiest when she's teaching people about compost, reading about it, or elbow deep in the stuff. She's a compost nerd and sustainability educator, and she's on a mission to help others step-up their household waste management. From her home on the south coast of New South Wales, the teacher and mum of three busy dirt-babies spreads the word on 'garden gold' via Instagram, TikTok, and workshops for councils, community gardens and businesses. Kate has inspired her family, friends, and ever-growing online community to think about the small actions they can take daily to stem the climate crisis and make composting fun Website Instagram TikTok Shop the Store As 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. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking 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 Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We think a lot about waste as people, but also as gardeners and also in our
0:08.4	kitchens as cooks or chefs. In fact, one of the biggest companies here in
0:12.3	America is just called waste management. WM, they drive around everywhere
0:15.9	picking up so-called trash. Today we have Kate Flood, the compost coach back on
0:21.1	the show. What's your perspective on the word waste, Kate?
0:25.4	Oh, I feel like the word waste isn't dirty words because really I want to say
0:29.8	waste in inverted commas. Because as a gardener, you start to realise that
0:34.6	these things that you might put out on the side of the road or, you know,
0:39.0	throw out the council. Actually, it's not waste. It's such a precious resource.
0:44.6	And I really like the idea of instead of going out to a landscaping shop,
0:50.6	you look around your garden, you look around your kitchen, and you shop
0:54.6	these two parts of your home life for resources. Instead of bringing in organic
1:00.4	matter from somewhere else that's being grown and flown to your back yard,
1:04.8	you can get it from your own back yard. You know, it's really exciting to give
1:08.9	out like that. Why don't we start then with inside the home. It's probably a
1:13.3	little more accessible for people if you don't have a thriving garden. Of course,
1:16.2	you have a kitchen and you're using things in that kitchen. Most people have a
1:20.3	list of stuff that you just shouldn't compost. How true would you say is the
1:25.4	common list? Look, I am a bit of a no rules composter
1:29.8	cabinet because I want to return as many nutrient-rich resources to my soil.
1:37.4	And there's lots of different ways of composting. So, you know, people sort of
1:41.4	traditionally think you're slinging stuff into your back yard compost pile.
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