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Old Fashioned On Purpose

S10 E13: When Fertilizer Turns Toxic with Julie Lay

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Education, Farm, Gardening, Leisure, Farming, Chickens, Hobbies, How To, Homestead, Home & Garden, Canning, Cows, Homesteading, Cooking

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm uncovering the toxic story behind what folks want us to think is a harmless fertilizer. I'm talking with Julie Lay. Julie has a BS in Animal Science from Auburn University and until 2020 spent her entire career working in the food safety industry, which you could argue she’s still doing, but in a very different way, today. The documentary featuring Julie: https://www.southernexposurefilms.org/films/soiled More about Maine's biosludge ban: https://www.theguardian.com/environ...

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0:00.0

Hey friends, welcome back to the Old Fashion on Purpose Podcast.

0:03.4

So a few episodes ago,

0:05.7

I may be last episode,

0:07.7

I'm not sure how these will come out,

0:08.8

but I talked about a huge issue

0:11.4

I had with my potting soil this year.

0:13.4

I was trying to figure out why my plants weren't growing

0:15.2

and I did a lot of detective work in the process.

0:17.6

And I came across a really interesting

0:20.4

and kind of scary concept in my potting soil research.

0:25.2

And it was brought to my attention

0:26.4

by a wonderful audience member or a follower.

0:29.8

She popped into my DMs and brought this to my attention

0:32.7

and I've kind of been interested in ever since.

0:34.8

So it's the topic of bio-slug.

0:39.0

And if you have never heard of that,

0:40.4

don't feel bad because I hadn't either.

0:42.5

And it wasn't till my guest today brought it to my attention

0:45.2

that I started to realize,

0:46.0

this is a really big issue

0:47.8

that is potentially going to affect all of us

0:50.2

and is potentially affecting all of us now

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