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How Fatherhood Shapes Identity and Values
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Embrace Your Sleep Cycle The Joy of Grandparenting: Bonding With the Next Generation In Need of Some Spring Break Staycation Ideas? Delightful Banana Bread Shattering Myths About Growing Food From Food Waste
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Separating Fact From Myth CAN YOU GROW FOOD FROM KITCHEN SCRAPS?
Viral videos on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram have spread the wrong-headed notion that you can grow food from kitchen scraps. The idea is to prevent vegetable and fruit leftovers from ending up in landfills. Instead, if you save the scraps, you can grow viable plants for renewable produce, which reduces waste and your carbon footprint. However, most of these videos exaggerate the effectiveness of this process and downplay the time and cost. We suggest ignoring those videos and investing time in more reasonable ways to use organic food waste. Here are some ideas. COMPOST Composting is a popular reason to hold on to organic scraps from your kitchen. Using a composter reduces the amount of waste you contribute to landfills. This is very handy for making nitrogen-rich soil for your garden. UNIQUE HOUSE PLANTS While apple and orange seeds may take a year or more to grow, many plants sprout within weeks. Keep them in the
house as a unique house plant until they grow large enough to transplant outside. POTATOES Potatoes are an exception — they grow quickly and flourish from scraps. Get a glass of water and stick toothpicks in your hunk of potato scrap. Set the potato on top of the glass so it is partially submerged. Within a week, you’ll have roots If you want to grow herbs from food waste, your herb cutting must have a sizable stem with whole leaves. Trim the end of the stem and submerge the cut end in water. After a week, if the cutting has roots, you can plant it in a pot. So, salvaging food scraps to grow more food isn’t cost- to plant outside. FRESH HERBS effective outside of potatoes and herbs. But composting and propagating new fruit trees can potentially lead to valuable results from the remnants of your produce.
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