Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening

podcast Kevin here and Mandy McKay is joining us again. She is the

director of sustainability at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. You know we've talked about a lot of Sierra Nevada stuff,

you know what they're doing at a large scale with every sort of either waste reduction or energy production,

and I think a lot of us now might be thinking waste reduction or energy production.

And I think a lot of us now might be thinking, okay, that's great, that's fantastic.

What can I actually do at my house that will make a difference in my own life?

We were just talking,andy there's there's

one thing that seems like we both do where when we're waiting for our

shower to heat up we just put a bucket underneath and capture the cold

water and then use that somewhere else, right?

Yeah, I think it, you know, I'm laughing because it's kind of funny and it might feel a little cheesy but truly it's those

it's those little small things that that's the same thing we're doing in

our North Carolina brewery with our big beautiful rainwater cisterns and

capturing that water you can do it with a bucket in a shower.

Yeah I mean the difference is just that you have the capacity to put a true system in place where you don't have to have a team have buckets at Sierra Nevada. You know, but like my friend, my friend Anne, she's real hens of

O.C. on Instagram.

She's been on the podcast a couple times talking about homesteading when I went up to

her house.

She does that, but she does it with every water source on her property.

So underneath her sink, in her shower, her hose, you know, anywhere a leak might be she will be capturing underneath or she'll fix the leak whatever and so like

no truly for her no drop is wasted it's really interesting to see and it you

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