1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff from the Science Lab from how stuff 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: works dot com. Hey guys, and welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: This is Alison and you're listening to Stuff from the 4 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: Science Lab, and I'm Robert Lamb, science writer at how 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,479 Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Today's podcast comes to you courtesy 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: of listener pastor Robert. Pastor Robert wrote us from Western 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: New York. Pastor Robert wrote that he and his wife 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: are starting their first worm composting then a k a 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: vermicom posting, and he and his wife have found the 10 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: process of quote unquote fascinating. Pastor requested a podcast on 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: the science of com posting, something to listen to on 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: all of his long drives, which I have to wonder, 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: is he counseling people? I guess is that what a 14 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: pastor goes around doing pastoring on the side, and like 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: maybe he's a country doctor and baby think and he 16 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: drives the big rigs and like he like he chats 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: with pool like it truck stops. You know, people are 18 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: down on their luck and maybe he marries them too. Yes, 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 1: the people who are stop weddings right right, So today 20 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about composting. Are you a composter? Yes, Uh, 21 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: my wife and I are composters. We've been posting for 22 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: for well, I guess ever since we've got our house. Um, 23 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 1: so far, so good. Yeah, because you're humus. Um, well, 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: we generally eat all of it instead of put Oh 25 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: that's humus. I think it's doing pretty good. Yeah. We uh, 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: we're we're not like super like strict militant composters, um, 27 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: which I think is right off the bat. I need 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: to stress like composting is not something you should be 29 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: afraid if you just jump in and do it. You 30 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: can take a lazy, if fair approached to composting, or 31 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: you can be super uptight about it. Yeah, it's like 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: it's it's how how however you want to approach it. Basically, 33 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: you can get crazy with it or you can ease 34 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: your way into it and you know, see what fits 35 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: you know for you. But yeah, we're we're more along 36 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: the NS with yet we're following certain guidelines. Um. You know, 37 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: but I'm in researching for this podcast. I've learned some 38 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: things like whoa, I haven't been composting that I could 39 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: be composting you know, cat hair, I didn't know we 40 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: could put that in there, So don't blow it off. Spoiler. Yeah, 41 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: I'm a huge gardener, but I have to admit we 42 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: haven't composted as of yet. But part of that I 43 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 1: think it is because we're in a rental. But as 44 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: you will find out, that is no excuse because you 45 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: can compost indoors. Busted. Yeah, totally. So let's get into 46 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: some reasons why you should compost. Okay, well, obvious of course. Yeah. 47 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: The obvious is whatever you're composting is not going into 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: the garbage can. And that's nice. I mean that breaks 49 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,679 Speaker 1: down to so many levels. You're not dragging it out, 50 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: you're not wasting you know, extra garbage bags. It's not 51 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: being picked up by the garbage man. It's not contributing 52 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: to to the emissions by that garbage truck. It's not 53 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: taking up room in a in a landfill somewhere. I 54 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: mean it just the landfill is not generating x amount 55 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 1: of methane and leach it from that refuse im and 56 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,839 Speaker 1: lots of landfills don't have a ton of life left 57 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: in them. Yeah, there's not. So let's drag these puppies 58 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: out as long as we Let's let's be reasonable about it. Yeah, 59 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: why why throw away an entire orange peel when you 60 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: can just throw away the little sticker, when you can 61 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: probably even recycle a little sticker. I don't know. My 62 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: three year old likes to peel them off and stick 63 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: them in random places around the house lately in the bathroom. 64 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: How do you know where your oranges came from? Well, 65 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: she does it after we There's also the fact that 66 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: some towns have paper throw we do in um in Georgia. 67 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: There are towns that that have paper throw so you 68 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: have to pay um per garbage bag. Also, if you actually, 69 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: you know, use your compost for anything such as putting 70 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: it into your garden, I mean your your soil is 71 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: going to benefit tremendously. I mean yeah, I mean it's 72 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: important to remember the soil is not just dirt. Soil 73 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: is a living thing, you know, It's just filled with 74 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: all this life and and you're just contributing to that 75 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: when you when you feed it all this lovely compost. Yeah, 76 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: especially downe here with clay soil, have you Georgia clay soil, 77 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: It breaks it up, gives it better areas, and it 78 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: adds great nutrients, which you were pretty much just saying. 79 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: And the soil also helps to retain water once you 80 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: add Yeah, and it can really make a difference. Like 81 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: not too long ago, we like a few months ago, 82 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: we took our composts that we've been building up and 83 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: we put it all in the garden, and like everything 84 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: just like brightened up. Really, Yeah, I heard it compared 85 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: to plant steroids. Essentially if you add some of that 86 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: and then you never know what's going to grow. You're like, whoa, 87 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: avocados are growing in our yard, Like just because we 88 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: composted a bunch and we've got like I think some 89 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: cucumbers sprouted out. Some people call use volunteers, so you know, 90 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: their their weeds, but their weeds you could potentially eat. 91 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: I've read about a cantal lip sprouting in a compost 92 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: bin from Yeah, so that's that's kind of major. And 93 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: here's something that I really hadn't thought about it. It 94 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: can also decontaminate soil. Again, according to the US e P, 95 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: I have the composting process can absorb odors and treat 96 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: semi volatile and volatile organic compounds, including stuff like heating fuels, 97 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: poly aromatic hydrocarbons, and even explosives. Yeah, that's very that's 98 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: very important thing to keep in mind when you're trying 99 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: to decide to start composting, because a lot of people 100 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: are like, oh, I don't want to the smell. I'm 101 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: just gonna have a heap of garbage in my yard. 102 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: But it doesn't smell if you do it right. It 103 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: doesn't smell if you do it right, and it's actually 104 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: gonna cut down on the odors. Yeah. So let's talk 105 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: about some of the basic ingredients slush steps behind composting. Okay, 106 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: you gotta have some waste, preferably organic. Yes, if you're not, 107 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: if you don't eat food at all or shed hair, etcetera. There, 108 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: read newspaper, then clothing, yeah, clothing, so yeah. So first 109 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: step is to gather your organic waste, whatever it may be, 110 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: whether it's like the newspaper leaves, grass, fruit, vegetables, kitchen waste, anything, 111 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: grass clippings. Yeah, And then you have your two basic 112 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: categories of compost material. You have the green um and 113 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: that's high in nitrogen, the stuff that's going to be 114 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: fast to decompose um like kitchen waste. Yeah, Like like 115 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: lettuce that fell on the floor got a little too 116 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: icky to use in the salad. I've heard the green 117 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: material also referred to as quote unquote juicy juicy. Okay, yeah, 118 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: and then you have your brown compost material, and this 119 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: is the stuff that's gonna be slower to decompose, like 120 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: would It's gonna be high in carbon and it's gonna 121 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: be dry. Yeah. Like a good example of this um 122 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: would be um wine quirks. If there wouldn't wine quirks, 123 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: you can compost those. Well, what's some other stuff that 124 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: you can compost that perhaps you didn't know about? Was it? 125 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: Was there anything on this list that we're just about 126 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: to read you? Yes, you want to mention the ones 127 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: that I was not aware of? Okay? Well, the human 128 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: hair and by extension, cat here I was not aware 129 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: of because I like, if I end up like taking 130 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: the brush to the cat, we end up with these 131 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: big hunks of orange. Yeah, it's like each one the 132 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: size of a young kitten, and I've just been throwing 133 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: them in the garbage. I didn't even think about. That's terrible. No, 134 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: are you gonna go home and pull the hair from 135 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: your hair brush and go smart? Straight up? I'm just 136 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: gonna go home and just share the entire cat and compost. 137 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: What about cotton rags? I had no idea cotton rags. 138 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'd use cotton rags for anything. But 139 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: what do you use a cotton rag for? Like, is 140 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: it like for cleaning around the house? I guess, well 141 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: yeah that or maybe um, you know, when you're buffing 142 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: the car or something, because you know I like to 143 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: do a lot of car buffing on Saturdays, or like ma, 144 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: if you're doing a Mummy costume for Halloween, right and 145 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: you get a lot of cotton material, yeah, yeah, um, 146 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: dryer lint. You know that you can compost another one 147 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: that I have not been doing. And vacuum vacuum refuse 148 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: from your room. Most of that is pet hair, So 149 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: those two, uh us two go go together. And then 150 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: you also have probably stuff that you guys know about, 151 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: like tea bags and coffee grounds and filters, even paperboard. Um. 152 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: The que with paperboard though, is that you want to 153 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: tear it up much smaller. Don't just hawk your cereal 154 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: boxes in the compost been Yeah, we haven't been doing 155 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: the paper I g I mean we use paper recycling, 156 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: so I never even think about composting it. But uh 157 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: but definitely on the coffee grounds with the well, with 158 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: the filters, we just started the filters in the coffee 159 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: grounds and then that seems to work great. Now, how 160 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: do you feel about egshells? Do you put egg shells 161 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: in your composting pile? Um? Yeah, we do now because 162 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: like the people that we had heard say, oh, you 163 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: shouldn't do it. We're talking about like if you're growing 164 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: a food garden and we don't grow a food garden. 165 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: So and is that because they think there's a fear 166 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: of salmonilla? Yeah, yeah, that's that's what that's that's attached to. 167 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: I've heard that some people actually wash their eggshells before 168 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: adding them to the compost polly. Either that or they 169 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,599 Speaker 1: bake them. There are various methods. It's like with that 170 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: you get into the issues of like, well, am I 171 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: wasting water to wash the egg shells and I'm putting 172 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: in the compostor or the electricity or gas to fire 173 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: up the oven. I don't know. I leave those questions 174 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: to you guys. I also saw that you could compost blood, 175 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: which she's kind posting blood. No, that's you know what 176 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: that is. That's how you make um. I would not 177 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 1: do that because that's how you make homunculous. If you 178 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: look back. You know, homunculus is like a little like 179 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: a medieval magic in the occult. This is the idea 180 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: that you would make this little like grotesque, little humanoid, 181 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: and you'd have to use ingredients that are a lot 182 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: like compost like, like there'd be like some manure in there, 183 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: and you know, some other stuff and and then like 184 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: you would throw in some blood or some other bodily 185 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 1: fluid so to save that for your unculus. Yeah, yeah, 186 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: composting blood. You're just gonna get homunculi all over the place, 187 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: you asked me. I mean, I'm just saying beware, Hey, 188 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: what's the name of that Jewish um sort of figures. Yeah, 189 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 1: that's what I was saying the whole time. Most composting 190 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: efforts are going to be going free. That's that's more 191 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 1: of a high magic, I think. So so with some 192 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: of the stuff that you shouldn't com post, I think 193 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: you guys probably know this. But your dog's business, for example, Yeah, 194 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 1: which is kind of a bummer, especially if you have 195 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: a dog, because what else to do with all of 196 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: that business except but why wouldn't somebody throw the dog's 197 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 1: business in there? Because Pathogen's right, Yeah, but yeah, it 198 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: would be so easy if you could, right, would be great. Also, 199 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: one's own business should not go in there. And you know, granted, 200 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: every now and then you're like, oh man, the bathrooms occupied. 201 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: Can I just go out and take a dump in 202 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: the compost heat? No, you can't. That won't work at all. 203 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: Not I haven't done that. But you know, right then 204 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: you have stuff like mayo and peanut butter use cat litter. 205 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:27,719 Speaker 1: Don't be doing that, Robert dairy products, and well the 206 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: ironic things. The cat just goes out and uses the 207 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: restroom all over the yard anyway, so it's in effect 208 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: she's composting. Great meat. You shouldn't come post meat, which 209 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: this one, this one comes into play like if if 210 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: you're like us and you have like several different bins 211 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: where different things need to be composted or recycled or 212 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: or garbage and uh, and you try and label them, 213 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: and then you have people over and like then they 214 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: have no idea where anything goes. And then like after 215 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: everyone goes home, you're like picking like raw meat out 216 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: of your compost. Yeah, so yeah, don't compost your meat. 217 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: Don't don't compost dairy products like yogurt, can't compost that 218 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,719 Speaker 1: not so much. Do you know that? I had a 219 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,319 Speaker 1: friend who dated the sky once who didn't believe in 220 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: throwing things away in the garbage can, and he just 221 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: he would just throw stuff away on the would just 222 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: throw stuff on the ground. What And then eventually maybe 223 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: like once a month or something, you know, they would 224 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: they would do a sweep. But he didn't really in 225 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: the house. Yeah, in the house, I'm not kidding. Oh 226 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: did he go into like open one of those chains 227 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: of restaurants where you throw the peanut shells on the floor. 228 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: It seems like the same basic principle. Yeah, I was 229 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: just thinking of that, Like banana peels just on the ground, 230 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: that's an instant calamity. Yeah, So what else do you 231 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: need besides your organic material? We went way off tang 232 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: just but we will get you back to the composting process. People. Um, Well, 233 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: on a very simple level, you just need some sort 234 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: of generally, you need some sort of receptacle for in 235 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: house camp posting, unless you you know, because if you 236 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: peel banana, you don't want to be like, oh I 237 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: gotta go walk out to the heap. Well, you can 238 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: get a composting croc yeah, Like it's like a little 239 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 1: cookie jar, right, yeah, yeah, that's what we have. Just 240 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: it's like it's nothing fancy. It just looks like a 241 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: little cookie jar. But woe to the child who reaches 242 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 1: in there expecting an oat mill uh, the old mill 243 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: raisin cookie. I've had my eye on a composting croc 244 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 1: from crate and barrel. It looks very nice and it 245 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: comes with a filter, so no odors. It's a little 246 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: bit more complex than your average cookie jar. It's kind 247 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: of a sweet system. And again you can I think 248 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: you can put maybe up to a week's worth of 249 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,719 Speaker 1: food waste in there and then save yourself all those 250 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: trips out to whatever dark corner of the yard you 251 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 1: have your you've been in. I have a I have 252 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: a friend, um Becky Streepy is her name, and she's 253 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 1: always trying out like new uh composting options, and for 254 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: a while there she was going through uh like different 255 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: You have different little composting bins for the kitchen, and 256 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: I think some of them work really well, like one 257 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: or two really did not work and had some odor problems. 258 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: So you know, find what works. Shop around. Yeah, there 259 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 1: are a lot of options. We'll cover some of those, 260 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: Like one had a little spigot on the bottom where 261 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: you could like drain compost water out or something. I 262 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 1: don't know, I think they call it t. Yeah, some 263 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: of them have the T you want to drink. So 264 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 1: you're gonna need some soil too, right, Yeah, that's and 265 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: you're gonna so if you have like even like a 266 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: little bit of a yard or something, that's probably gonna 267 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: help out a lot. And the soil is beneficial because 268 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: it has all those lovely microorganisms that make their home there, 269 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: and they'll help to break down those particles. You can 270 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: even add finish that humus I read and that comes 271 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 1: jam packed with micro orgs already available. Oh yeah, it's 272 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,599 Speaker 1: like um um yeah. Yeah. We actually use some of 273 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: that on on our compost at one point. It just 274 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: like speeds up the process. You're also gonna want water, 275 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: of course, um aim for you know moist composts. You know, 276 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: don't soak it, don't just turn the hose on it. 277 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: UM two. Wet is bad because it can stifle the 278 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 1: airflow and that cuts down on the process. Um and 279 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: they end up with it smelling. Yeah. Speaking of the air, um, 280 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna want to stir your compost pile and depending 281 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: on how upset you are about your composting or how 282 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: how much you really wanted to come post fast, you're 283 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: gonna get out there and stir it up, or maybe 284 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: you have an automated compost pile where you know, kind 285 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: of rotates it for you. Those spinning ones, Yeah, those 286 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: spinning ones are awesome looking. Ours is more like there's 287 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: a lump of stuff in the backyard and you need 288 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: to get in there with a rate and start hitting it. 289 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, you're gonna want to have an optimal carbon 290 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: to nitrogen ratio, and everything I found said it would 291 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: be about thirty to one. I've seen it lower to 292 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: maybe twenty one. But um, yeah, we're this is an 293 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: area of composting where I'm I'm not quite advanced enough 294 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: to where we're doing any math on it. And you're 295 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: gonna want to heat too. You have to keep it 296 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: hot enough, as some one source that recommended a hundred 297 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: thirty one degrees fahrenheit for three days to destroy weed 298 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: seeds and plant pathogens. It's good if it's hot, right, 299 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: because that means that things are happening. The microbes are 300 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: reap do sing, they're getting excited. Stuff's decomposing. And you 301 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: can buy a compost thermometer if you're so inclined to 302 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: check the temperature of your compost to make sure it's 303 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: you know, generating the heat if you can't tell right that. 304 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: This is also why Minders stands. There's some industrial composting 305 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: hum machines and they actually like heat everything up, which 306 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: speeds things along. Yeah. Into our composters come with an 307 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: electrical heating unit. Oh cool, Yeah, pretty cool. So yeah, 308 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: there's this little thing called hot composting, which isn't as 309 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: sexy as it sounds, which is so pretty cool. Um. 310 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: According to a tree hugger, hot composting occurs when compost 311 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: stays above ninety degrees fahrenheit. Um. And so when this happens, 312 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: you get a more active process um getting out. You're 313 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: stirring the organic ways. Yeah. Um. So you need to 314 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: make sure that you have your composting been in a 315 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: sunny spot for this, um. And that's why you will 316 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: generally find the composting bins are black or green because 317 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: you want them to absorb that solar energy not deflected. Right. So, 318 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: cool composting happens that anything attempts below eighty sixgrees fahrenheit 319 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: according to tree Hugger, And it's more the lazy man's 320 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: composting technique. If you can't get out there every day, 321 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: no big deal, that's fine, but just don't expect your 322 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: finished product to come out there. Yeah, and again the 323 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: stress stress it again, like don't just compost, you know, 324 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: just just just do it and let your involvement level, 325 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: you know, be whatever becomes comfortable, I should go. But 326 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: it was curious as to if it had any effects 327 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: on people's health. And the one thing I did find 328 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: was that, of course a compost pile is going to 329 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: have a pretty high population of various molds and fungi, 330 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: and so that can cause allergies and some people that 331 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: are prone to them. So if there is somebody in 332 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: your household that has such allergies, have them or a 333 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: mask or better yet, do it yourself and don't make 334 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: them do it. But then again, you do have sealed system, 335 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: so perhaps that would be more of the answer. We 336 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: have had occasional scavengers show up. The only like twice 337 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: I can remember. One was when we threw some pizza 338 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: crust in there, and it was like huge pizza crust 339 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: and like we saw squirrel. It was Squirrelsstanza. No, the 340 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: squirrels were like raiding the compost for the big, gigantic 341 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: pizza crust deal, Like it's the pizza crust was as 342 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: big as the squirrel. It was just running along with it. 343 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: Um And then this was weird though. At one point 344 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: we had like done like a we've just gotten this 345 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,959 Speaker 1: new grill, right, and we were doing like a veggie 346 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: grill thing. There's no meat involved at this point, like 347 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: new grill, just veggies right, grilled up these veggies. And 348 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: you know, we were we were already composting, and so 349 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,719 Speaker 1: the refuse went to the compost. We had a possum 350 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: show up in the middle of the night. You knock 351 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: on the door. No, no, But the thing is he 352 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: didn't even mess with the composting. He was there was 353 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: like a tiny little grape tomato in the bottom of 354 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: the of the grill, and the possum was like was 355 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: furiously trying to get into the grill to get that 356 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: little tomato instead of going into the composting. So I 357 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: don't know what that's about. My dog was us to 358 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: get into our girl team? How about the composting? Does 359 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: the does the animal mess with the because dogs are 360 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: a little more like, yeah, I'll eat a rotten tomato, 361 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: where cats don't care about that kind of thing. Yeah, 362 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: dogs would. My dog would definitely be interested in the 363 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: compost pile. So let's take a look at a compost 364 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: food web. Let's get into a little the sance behind it. 365 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: I was really astounded when I looked at this chart 366 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: of all the things that live in there, because I just, 367 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: I guess I never looked at it too closely. I 368 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: see flies on it, you know, but I don't go 369 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: rooting around in there for you know, nematodes On the 370 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: bottom level of your food web, you're gonna have your 371 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: organic residues. That's just your waist, you're gonna hawk in there. Yeah. 372 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 1: And then you're gonna have your first level consumers. You know, 373 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: these are the guys that get in there early and 374 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 1: eat the organic waste. So this includes fungi, bacteria, uh, snails, 375 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: nematod's stuff like my seats too. Yeah. And what are 376 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: the sawbugs, salbugs, salabugs, yeah, flies, beetle myths, white worms, 377 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: all sorts of good stuff. So those are those from 378 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: the first level. And then you have a second level 379 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: consumers right, nifeat on those guys. And this includes protozoa, nematodes, 380 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: mold mites, spring tails. Is that your favorite one? Where's 381 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: your favorite one that you had pointed out? Didn't she 382 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: like the pseudo scorpion? I did like the studio scorpion. 383 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: Is the studio scorpion filled fit into this whole scenario? Um? Well, 384 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: it kind of looks like a cross between a scorpion 385 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: and a flea. And he's like one to two millimeters 386 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: long apparently, So what does that make he is a Oh, 387 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: he's a second and third level consumer, So what does 388 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: that mean? That means he eats the such things as 389 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: the protozoa and the nematodes. So you have a whole 390 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: ecosystem right there in your compost heat. Yeah, Like people 391 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: talk about, oh, you know, I don't know about getting 392 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,919 Speaker 1: a pet, um, I don't know about getting composting. If 393 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 1: you get composting, you get pets, millions of them. There's 394 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: even each other. There's even a carl rove beetle. Oh no, no, no, 395 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: it's just a yeah. But other third level consumers include 396 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: live centipedes, ground beetles, ants and you know ants feast 397 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: on all sorts of this stuff, but you know, any 398 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: of these lower invertebrates. So we've already kind of hammered 399 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: at you that you should just compost. And by hammering, 400 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: I'm I'm hammering at myself too, because I already have 401 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: admitted that I do not compost, but I will be 402 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: composting pretty much the second egg at home, I think. 403 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: So there are all sorts of bin types, whether you 404 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: live in New York City or whether you live out 405 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: in the hills of western New York. So there's a 406 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: small scale. There's those composting crops that we talked about, 407 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: but those really aren't completing the whole composting process. And 408 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: we're kind of like a base camp for a compost mountain, right. 409 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: And then you have your indoor kitchen composter, and like 410 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 1: I said, these have got their act pretty together. They 411 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: have filters, you can get composting bags, they come with 412 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: electric keating perhaps um, and you can even add handy 413 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: microorganisms to help stuff along. Wow, those are remarkable. I 414 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: really wasn't familiar with much. Are how expensive. They're probably 415 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,959 Speaker 1: more than a cookie jar, probably more. Um. Yeah, then 416 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: you just have you have outdoor you know, simple low 417 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: tech pile wood bends, you know, you know basically just 418 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: like the ones we have are basically consist of like 419 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: it's like six steaks in the ground and then there's 420 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: like a kind of a fabric, like it's almost like 421 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: a tent without a top, cylindrical and you just dump 422 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: the stuff in there, and then when you're when you're done, 423 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: you can just remove the cylinder and you have the 424 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: big pile of composts package. I really want that the 425 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: pig composting bin that I afforded to. Did you say that? 426 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that the really pig composter. Yeah, it's 427 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: pretty awesome. We sat on People Powered Machines dot com. 428 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 1: It was sweet, but it's kind of pricey. Yeah. It's 429 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: basically like a big barrel, right, Yeah, but it was 430 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: divided into sections for each of the cycles of composting, 431 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: and you feed your organic waste into the snout and 432 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: it comes out at the pigs bottom. Oh wow, so 433 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: you learn kids can learn a little bit about how 434 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: composting works and how pigs work. Yeah, And there's some 435 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: really cool ones that look like you know, amusement park 436 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: rides or like alien spaceships. Um, there's like the ones 437 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: that have like a frame where you just like spin 438 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: the barrel on it. Like those are great, Like I 439 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: end those, um. But then there's somewhere it's like it's 440 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: like a ball made out of different pieces. And oh 441 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: it's you can you can buy like the Cadillact of 442 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: composting bins, or you can just go with something really 443 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: simple and low cost. It's the really wherever you feel comfortable. 444 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 1: And there's also worm com posting. We haven't mentioned that yet. 445 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty cool. This is a great alternative for 446 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: people who don't actually have that yard. If you're like 447 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: in an apartment and maybe all you have is a 448 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: like a little uh little balcony area or um. Right, 449 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: so don't put a nice, nice chair out there, nice 450 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: flower pop. You're not going to sit out there anyway. 451 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: I mean, how you know right there, tiny, just put 452 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: your compost or out there. Put it in your laundry um. 453 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: Although I'm guessing if you live in a tiny apartment 454 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: you may not have a laundry room. Yeah, put in 455 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: your bathroom. Yeah it's the bathroom. The worms live in 456 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,959 Speaker 1: the bathroom exactly. Yeah, so candle worms. This was one 457 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: of the models I saw. It was maybe it was 458 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: over a hundred dollars, and then the worms extra worms 459 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: for fifty five dollars for a thousand. Wow, you can't 460 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 1: just go down to the bait store, and you probably could. Yeah, 461 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: but the benefits of worm composting. You get those awesome 462 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: worm castings, which your plants and the soil love. You 463 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: get liquid worm fertilizer, and I read one reviewer actually 464 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: called the liquid fertilizer organic plant steroids. It's one of 465 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: the best things you can do for your garden. So 466 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: when it comes to composting, the residents of San Francisco 467 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: are ahead of the pack um as a jarone Jessica 468 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: Toothman goes into in a two thous article. According to 469 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: San Francisco environment dot Org, hundreds of thousands of residents 470 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: and over three thousand restaurants and other businesses send over 471 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 1: four hundred tons of food, scraps and other compostable materials 472 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: each day to recolloges Jepson Prairie Composting Facility by San Francisco. Um, 473 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: what's the end result? The end result is yet used 474 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: to produce the organic food and wine that San Francisco 475 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: is famous for serving. So if you have any composting 476 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 1: stories you'd like to share, send us some email at 477 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 1: science Stuff that has to first dot com. Yeah, and 478 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: if you're in if this podcast inspires you to start, 479 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: let us know how it goes. Um and while you're 480 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: at it, you can always drop by the website and 481 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: uh search up any number of of composting recycling topics. Yeah, 482 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,199 Speaker 1: lots of green topics covered on the site. And uh 483 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: oh yeah, and we have a Twitter and a Facebook account. 484 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: Now we shared you Yeah, stuff from the science lab 485 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 1: yeah or just lab stuff. Do a search on either 486 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: of those terms and that will lead you right to us. 487 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: So that's all we got. Thanks for listening, guys. 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