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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis, Bad Manners

Grat article of stuff I have done for years. Moon used to dig a hole in the garden and plop in the scraps. Before winter a bigger hole and keep it going. Keep going w/ good stuff! Also at some point could you please do an index that cross references all your books recipes?

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That's a great idea! I need that too lol

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Go to eat your books.com... all indexed for you!

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis, Bad Manners

Aargh, dang autocorrect 🤬 It’s eatyourbooks.com

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i didn't know about this. so cool!

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis

Mom no moon oops but everyone got the idea anyway.

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis

Thank you for this! Very important topic. There's a great app (i think also in the states) called too good to go that allows you to buy older vegetables/produce/meat from stores. still good, just not what the typical consumer wants.

we also have a movement here called "kook je koelkast leeg" which translates to "cook your fridge empty."

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ohhh i love that. cook your fridge empty is a great motto for life

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis

I’ve just finished installing a Subpod in one of my planters with a gang of worms living in there to eat all my waste food bits. It reckons that when fully up and running they will get through 10-30 litre of waste a week?! Which seems insane. I don’t think we will have enough scraps for that!

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ohhhh i saw they were having a sale and was bummed I don't have a spot for one at my place yet. update us on how it's going in a couple months.

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You could do your own thing on a smaller scale.

This guys Instagram is great for zero waste tips

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cp0RNygI8LG/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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Great article! I save all my kitchen scraps for the freezer, too! The vegetable stock you make with them is packed with flavour and costs you nothing: a win win situation! I feel a responsible adult every time I make it!

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right? its so easy and makes you feel like a clever grown-up.

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis

Red composting worms…they eat everything faster—and make the world’s best potting soil…not big enough for fishing, though…not that anyone here would do that…but if your peeps fish and find out you have worms, well—they’re too small, really.. but they sure do eat…and multiply..

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Bad Manners

This is awesome! I made it my resolution this year to work on food waste. I have been relistening to the podcast again and I've been looking forward to that episode where you guys talk about your composting bin in your garden. I want to set something up because I have a lot of plants and this seems like an easy fix for soil problems.

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the one I linked in the article is the one at the office. it's great

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis

Awesome!! I also got inspired by the last book with the zombie garden! It's been a great way to save on green onions and they just keep growing back.

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the zombie garden was one of my favorite spread in the book!

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis

having a sheep farm pretty much solves any leftovers dilemma... i have a scraps container right by the kitchen sink for food scraps that get tossed to the sheep daily. anything i think they wouldn't want to eat (e.g. coffee grounds, eggshells)gets composted. granted, farm life is freaking *hard work* (as my howling aching body can attest at the end of each day!) but it's a lot easier to deal with food scraps when you live on a farm.

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how many heads of sheep do you have? they're the cutest lil garbage disposals ever I bet

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis

we have around 200 right now, not counting the adorable new Lambies. to see some of those, take a look at "dave & maryann nielson travel photography" on facebook!

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis

Another great read! I’m a proponent of throwing anything you think you’re not gonna finish in the freezer. We always have way too many leftovers, and people are often surprised by the amount of food that’s still just as good a month later when you don’t feel like cooking. Just googling “can this thing be frozen?” Changed my life.

Has anyone tried those overpriced little kitchen composters (Lomi, etc.)? We are trying to buy a house this year, and I’m appalled at the number of neighborhoods where composting is AGAINST THE HOA RULES?! Like... what? I’d prefer to not live in a place where I’m going to be fined for trying to help the earth, but also looking into all options now since the majority of the HOA’s in the area are insane.

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i love freezing random food! I fucking hate HOA's. no composting??? I'd riot lol

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You inspire me to be even better at good-steward practices! I'm starting my composting now. Even though I live in an urban apartment, I do have access to a small composting bin the site manager uses that I've not bothered to use in the past. Today, I'm setting up a waste bowl when I cook and starting a compost container that's always available. Thank you!

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yes! you've got this. after a couple of weeks, you won't even have to think about it and you'll feel so proud every time you dump your scraps in the compost. so glad i could help.

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I live in an apartment complex--sorry, community--and was so excited when a green can showed up one day a couple year back. Unfortunately there wasn't any kind of education about it, so people were tossing in their old pizza boxes and whatnot, and then the landscapers started stuffing it full every week with leaves and other clippings, which fine, except that it's a very small portion of what they're still hauling away anyway! I messaged the property management and for the past few weeks it has remained empty so I'm cautiously optimistic that the residents can start dumping scraps again. Why is this so hard, people?!

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All it takes is one person expressing a preference and sometimes apartments listen. I've been the *slightly* annoying person in my complex before to make sure us renters had a green bin to use. Keep up the good fight!

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I had not even heard of the compost law, and it’s certainly not in affect in Northern California! I can’t even find places to drop off compost!

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ughhh, the pr on this law has been terrible and they are rolling it out so slowly that people have no idea. a great concept with terrible execution

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it's crazy how good sweet potatoes are in smoothies. why knew?

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Oh I've definitely polished off 3 loaves of that Costco bread in a week back in the day. When they put it out all warm? I used to basically run to my car to eat it

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