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Episode 113 - Horticultural Waste - watch full episode
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Joe and Patti visit Missouri Botanical Gardens to talk plastic pots  | Did you ever wonder what happens to all those plastic plant pots we put in the trash or enthusiastically send to the recycling center? Well, sadly because they're made from different plastics and often poorly labeled, many don't ever make it through recycling to become a new product.
Joe and Patti meet the folks at Missouri Botanical Garden who take in and sort over 130,000 pounds of gardening plastics annually for recycling into new products. Joe learns about some alternative garden packaging that is compostable or biodegradable, and new ones coming our way soon.
Also in this episode, Chef Nathan shows us how to turn leftover bones and old produce into your own flavorful chicken or vegetable stock. Full episode can be found here.
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Homemade Chicken Stock - recipe and video
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Make your own stock to add flavor to soups, rice, and much more!  |
Save those chicken bones! Add some floppy carrots, dented celery, sprouting onions, shriveling garlic, and parsley stems to make up your very own flavorful chicken stock.
Stock is chef's gold! It brightens up soups and marinades, is great for braising or poaching, and next time try stock instead of water when making rice and risotto!
Making your own stock gives new life to old produce before it hits the compost heap, uses ingredients you've already paid for, not to mention saves you money on store-bought stocks, and the flavor is all your own.
Video clip of the cooking segment and the full recipe can be found here.
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The Ugly Truth about Gardening - read Joe's production blog
_______________________________________________________________________ Nursery pots are made from many types of plastic that are not compatible when melted down  | For every plant we put in the ground, there's usually a pot associated with it. From those thin plastic, crinkly six-pack containers to the giant buckets that hold large shrubs and small trees, plastic pots play a ubiquitous role as the villain in an otherwise beautiful story of creating great American landscapes and gardens. The sad truth is that very, very few of those containers are ever recycled. As much as we all talk about doing more for the planet, why can't an industry whose primary purpose is to help beautify it, unite to come up with a solution to reduce the massive amount of horticultural waste that ends up in landfills every year? This is a behind-the-scenes, sometimes personal blog from my dual-role standpoint of producer and host. You can read the full post here. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy sharing it! Please feel free to leave me comments, questions and feedback on each post. |
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