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Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice inNo-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks youll need togrow and re-propagate produce from food waste. Youll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow.
Youll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors andmaintaining your re-grown plants.Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing.
Edibles big and small, quick to grow and those that take a big longer, are included, so you can pick and choose which projects to take on. A few of themany plants profiledinclude:
Green onions
Tomatoes
Melons
Avocadoes
Potatoes
Carrots
Cut back on your food waste, cultivate your own food easily, and maybe even share gardening with a new generation, all with the advice fromNo-Waste Kitchen Gardening.
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Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
KATIE ELZER-PETERS
O ur culture is one that evolved from a lifestyle of thrift and reuse from the pioneer days and the years of the world wars to one of convenience and consumerism in the post-war years, and the result has been a lot of wastecans, bottles, plastic bags, and so forth. But for several years now, the pendulum has been swinging back toward more conscientiousness. The political and social movement toward zero-waste living is now decidedly with us, as seen in magazine articles, books, and political debatenot to mention the people quietly living it. These days, some people are so extremely efficient at this that they produce less than one bag of trash per year.
Thats not necessarily realistic for most of us.
But it is realistic for most of us to look at our daily lives and see where we can recycle, reuse and also regrowthe main subject of this book.
Once you get started, living a low-waste or no-waste lifestyle can become almost like a game, but a game with tangible results. More and more, consumers young and old are entering into a no-waste lifestyle for a variety of reasons and out of a variety of personal perspectives. Some people arrive here out of a green attitude and a need to protect the planet, while for others it is an intense need for self-sufficiency and a wish to be prepared for any eventuality.
Whatever the motivation, those wishing to practice a no-waste lifestyle have many practical ways to get started.
No-waste consumers are always looking for ways to cut down on trash, save water, and green up their home and garden. There are multiple ways to do this. First, when youre shopping, look for items in containers that can be recycled or reused. When possible, buy in bulk and buy produce that isnt wrapped at all. Keep yard waste (leaves, twigs, weeds, grass clippings) out of the landfill by creating your own compost pile or check into potential municipal compost programs.
A little ingenuity will reveal lots of small ways to conserve and reuse water that will add up to big environmental savings. Install rain barrels at your downspouts and use them to water your container gardens and raised beds. Keep a 5-gallon bucket handy in each shower to collect runoff while youre waiting for the water to heat up. You can use that to water houseplants. Let water you use to boil pasta and vegetables cool down after cooking, then use it to water plants outside.
Its possible to regrow lots of your kitchen scraps, such as carrots, onions, and lettuce. Youll save time and money, and have a little fun too!
We often think about gardening as being a green activity, but gardening can actually generate a lot of waste: new plants in plastic containers, commercial mulch, and fertilizers are all sources of waste. The first place to start with no-waste gardening is to reuse all of the biomass (yard clippings) produced in your yard. From twigs to weeds to clippings to last seasons annuals, your yard produces a lot of organic material. Instead of sending it away, chip it up to use as mulch, or build a compost pile and use it to improve your soil.
Instead of buying new plants in plastic containers every year, learn how to grow your own from seed. Participate in plant exchanges where everyone brings plants to swap with one another. Old pots, yogurt cups, and Tupperware containers with missing lids are all viable options for plant sharing. Before you throw anything away, think about how you might be able to reuse it. Filing cabinets, old wheelbarrows, and old furniture make fun and funky container gardens. Old tools can be used to make interesting trellises or stakes.
Finally, no-waste living means cooking what you need and eating what you cook, but it also means squeezing every last bit of life out of your ingredient list. If you pay attention when you cook with fruits and vegetables, youll see that you end up with a sizable pile of produce that would normally end up in the compost heap.
Not so fast! Were now approaching the ultimate form of no-waste living. You can actually regrow a lot of those kitchen scraps rather than composting them. Talk about taking no-waste living to the extreme!
This is what youre here fora lifestyle in which even the scrap food material you might compost can be reused in some way. After you read this book, you will never look at a grocery store, farmers market, or recipe the same way again. Each time you pick up a fruit or vegetable, your first thought will be, I wonder if I can regrow this?
When we cook, we frequently discard plant parts that we mightjust mightput to further purpose. You can throw the scraps leftover from making a soup or a salad in the compost pile, but you might also be able to use many of those scraps to regrow almost a whole garden, right from your kitchen counter or a small piece of your yard.
And there are lots of reasons to do just that.
Save money. Will regrowing everything really reduce your grocery bill? It depends on what you eat and how dedicated you are to regrowing. Some head lettuce, for example, can be regrown. If it costs $4 a head at the grocery store and you can regrow at least one additional whole head of leaves, thats $4 you didnt have in your pocket before.
Fresh herbs add so much flavor to meals, but they are also pricey. Thankfully, theyre also pretty easy to grow from the bits and pieces you buy at the farmers market.
Keep fresh ingredients on hand. With a well-stocked pantry, you can easily whip up something tasty for dinner without going to market. However, the finishing touches (herbs and greens, mostly) taste much better when fresh. You dont have to settle for dried when you have a nice row of little cuttings growing on your windowsill.
Reduce kitchen waste. We hope that youre already composting. If youre not, you can learn a little bit about that in are flushing almost no waste down a garbage disposal and are sending minimal amounts of refuse to the landfill.
Control your food source. Recent years have seen a rise in food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli infections, from foods previously thought to be perfectly safe, such as lettuce. This is usually traced to fertilizers spread over commercial food production fields and handling of produce during harvest. Such risks disappear entirely when you are regrowing your own edibles on your countertop or in your own garden, where you can control exactly what goes on them.
Save money on garden plants. Some kitchen leftovers you root can then be planted out in the garden to grow into full-fledged, harvestable plants. The more plants you root from leftovers, the fewer transplants you will have to buy for spring planting.
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