What Does Compost DO?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Kate, the Compost Queen, has been obsessed with compost since she was a kid. She loves learning and teaching this process that results in one of the best soil conditioners a gardener can have. Find out how compost adds value to the garden bed, and the garden ecosystem. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3M25JTH Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3FkqqXy Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3QlXZ1K EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3PPZlAc 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 Jacques in the Garden... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you want to know how to compost?
0:04.3	I certainly did back in the day when I didn't know how to garden, let alone how to compost.
0:09.3	While Kate Flood is on the show this week on the Beat Podcast, she is the compost coach
0:16.4	online.
0:17.4	Some call her the compost queen, some call her the compost goddess.
0:20.4	Her book that just came out is called the compost coach.
0:22.8	It's a book that I'm actually in.
0:24.4	The compost bin that I built here at the homestead features in the book Kate.
0:28.4	It's been great chatting with you on the internet.
0:30.6	It is now great to talk to you as close to in person as we're probably going to get for a while.
0:34.4	It is so nice to talk to you Kevin because we've been watching each other's videos and
0:41.0	I've been lusting after your amazing five-day compost system, so it was awesome being able
0:46.7	to take to that in the book.
0:47.7	I was like, what's she going to say after lusting?
0:49.7	What's coming next?
0:50.7	Who knows?
0:51.7	Yeah, so we put in the five bay because, you know, I got inspired to do the five bay because
0:56.6	it's a Charles Dowding because he had, call it the super bay.
1:01.3	You know, he had not only many bays, but the bays were massive.
1:04.3	It was like three meters by three meters, something huge like that.
1:07.4	And so I was like, I want to do something like that.
1:09.4	The first one I ever had on my property was a three by three by three.
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