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1 The Art of Spring-Cleaning 2 3 Pet Hero Stories
How Does Social Media Affect Family Law Cases? 3 Navigate Family Law Challenges Unique to Military Personnel Sesame Garlic Ramen 4 Shattering Myths About Growing Food From Food Waste
Can You Grow Food From Kitchen Scraps? SEPARATING FACT FROM MYTH
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 to plant outside.
FRESH HERBS 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-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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