What's up everyone?

What's up everyone?

What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode here on the Epic Gardening

podcast. We are joined again by Eddie Garcia. So Eddie has been living off-grid

since he was seven years old. He is the lead designer of living earth systems.

He's also the founder and executive director of Regenerative Education Centers, which you can find at recent-centers.org. Now, yesterday we talked a lot about earthworms. Today we're talking about

yard waste, and so I think the definition of it almost is something that we might need to rethink as far as you're

concerned right Eddie well I think the definition is real clear with what's going

on yard waste you're wasting it you could be building nutrient dense soil with that, which the way nature works in a circle and you could be growing food with that or making it prosper or your environment prosper rather than just wasting it.

And the reason I say you're wasting it, a lot of people might say, well, my dump has a composting

program and they're composting all that.

Well, there's a couple different ways're composting all that.

Well, there's a couple different ways of composting.

Most of the composting were familiar with,

which is known as thermophilic.

This is the chemical process of nitrogen to carbon ratio that actually creates heat and

breaks down material. So this form of composting which is the most common form

and which they're doing on a large scale.

They're constantly mixing the compost, they're adding microbes to it.

It actually releases a lot of gases into the atmosphere,

a lot of carbon as well as a lot of methane.

There's different ways.

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