If food waste was a country

[MissB]

1. Lots of interesting solutions there

I’ve always thought that food waste at home is where we fight but it’s good to see folks really try to tackle the issue closer to the distribution point.

I don’t try to use melon peels or stems from herbs. I have chickens; they get a lot of things like that. I also do Bokashi, so I take care of everything but bones. Bokashi goes into my big compost bins when it’s ready- heats up the pile and makes finished compost faster.

Many of my recent efforts include trying to grow more here so that I don’t have to buy stuff, but that’s obviously not entirely possible to avoid.

I grow so many herbs that the stems are kinda “meh” for me. I just processed some parsley that was ready to be harvested. Started the plant from seed last year, used it all summer and part of the winter and it is trying to finish its life cycle. So I washed it, dried it a bit and clipped it mostly from the stems, throwing the leaves in the dehydrator. Stems went into the hens bucket with some more destined for the Bokashi bucket. Could I dry them? Freeze them? Yes, but I don’t need the stems. Technically that’s food waste. But I see it as returning the nutrients back to the soil where I grew it.