Keeping Harvests Food-Safe

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Is there more to simply rinsing produce before eating it? Garden food safety is about mitigating risks, especially for those with sensitive immune systems. Simple practices like washing harvests with vinegar and water, and cleaning tools between uses add an extra layer of protection and make the harvest last longer. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3W2wEnZ Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/45N3Nam Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4eD82cC EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3RR0byu 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 Beach Podcast. We are back for day two with Victoria and last
0:18.0	episode we talked about food safety and all the stuff that might be on your produce that you don't really like to think about,
0:24.8	but it's there, it's real. So let's talk about how to safely clean that produce, how to store it,
0:29.3	so we could actually enjoy it properly. So Victoria, last time I mentioned that I like to rinse my produce and then just eat it. Is there anything wrong with that? Am I safe? What's the deal?
0:39.2	Considering you do have chickens in your garden? I would always and keep in mind nothing is 100%. It's all about
0:46.8	mitigating the risk and for somebody healthy like yourself you'll probably be fine but there's a chance of cross-contamining to somebody who may be
0:55.3	immunocompromised. Whether you have grandparents or parents or maybe a young toddler, it's very just important to keep these things in mind.
1:03.4	Okay. I think that's actually a really nice introduction baseline, right?
1:07.8	It's to think about like, it might have not been a problem for you in the past because you're fine, but you not have to consider younger children maybe in the future or elderly
1:18.0	parents or anything in between.
1:19.4	So I think that's a great baseline to start.
1:21.8	Well the other thing let's keep in mind is with cross
1:24.4	contamination of a lot of foodborne illnesses and and many of the major ones
1:30.2	that we've seen and resulted in deaths here in our country.
1:34.0	It was never that some of these children,
1:36.5	and the ones that I'm thinking of it exactly,
1:38.4	never actually consumed the product themselves.
1:40.8	It was through cross-contamination
1:42.3	that they end up getting sick and eventually. So it may be something that the
1:47.5	toddler or your elderly grandfather is not
1:55.0	consuming themselves, using the same bathroom and maybe not being clean or a countertop
1:58.0	could then affect that.
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