No Waste Gardening With Garden Betty | The Beet

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this full-length episode of the Beet Podcast, Linda Ly of Garden Betty takes us through the practice of no-waste gardening. That means you get the most out of your harvests by using all the parts of your favorite veggies! Linda also shares the many plants that are popular worldwide, but perhaps not in the US. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3VzFEPV Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/45yIadQ Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4cwRv8o EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3KRn5lx Learn More: Do Regrowing Food Scraps Hacks Actually Work?Connect With Linda Ly:Author and blogger Linda Ly started writing about gardening, garden-to-table recipes, and outdoor adventures on Garden Betty in 2010. Since then, her stories, tutorials, and free resources have attracted 5 million visitors per year from around the world. Linda has written several cookbooks, including The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook, and has appeared in Time, Food & Wine, HGTV Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook Instagram Facebook Email List YouTube Lazy Gardening Academy 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... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.3	Hello my friends welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Today we have Linda Lee on the show and I confess Linda when I first started Epic
0:22.4	Gardening and in fact it wasn't even called that at the time,
0:24.6	it was called Exponics, like a little hydroponic blog, your blog, Garden Betty, was out there.
0:30.8	And it was a big source of blogging inspiration in the early days of Epic Garding.
0:35.7	So it's great to have you on the show.
0:37.3	Thank you.
0:38.3	It's my pleasure being here.
0:40.0	So I know that you've got a cookbook coming out, the No Waste Vegetable Cookbook, which I know we're going to talk about.
0:45.5	And it kind of brings us to this topic of today's episode.
0:49.3	I didn't know that people thought the tops of carrots were poisonous. I just thought people
0:54.6	thought they didn't like the taste or something like that, but where did this all
0:58.0	start? The fact that people think carrot tops are poisonous I think it's because we don't really see a lot of recipes for them, especially in this country in the U.S.
1:08.0	So the first time I ever knew about this, I was walking into a Whole Foods buying a bunch of
1:14.1	groceries you know they have great carrots with these full lush greens about the
1:19.2	gross dinging ones that you usually see and the lady at the checkout counter asked me if she if I wanted her to just
1:28.5	break them off and compost them I was like oh what do you mean I just I just weighed them and I just paid for, you know,
1:34.6	this entire vegetable.
1:35.6	She was like, oh, well, most people don't use them.
1:37.0	You know, I don't think you're supposed to eat them.
1:39.1	And so we just get rid of them for you.
1:41.6	And that was sort of my first introduction to realizing how people
1:46.2	treat a lot of these odds and ends, like the tops and tails of vegetables that we grow at
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