Mmm. Don't throw this away. Don't throw it away! Whatever you do, do not throw your food
scraps away. If you put these food scraps into the garbage, they're going to end up in the landfill.
I have a better idea. I'm Carly, and I'm going to show you two ways you can
repurpose your food scraps. One: you can use your scraps to regrow them into more food. Two:
you can use those scraps to make indoor compost. It's easy and fun. Let's do it!
Okay, let's get started. I'm here with lettuce and green onion and celery. These
are the easiest vegetables to regrow from scraps. They aren't scraps yet, but they will be. Do some
research around your favorite vegetables. See if they can be regrown from scraps. But
I'm going to show you how it works with this stuff, because it's truly, I swear, so easy.
First up, celery. So you're going to want to cut it about two inches from the base, like this.
I'm gonna put this aside for snacks. And I'm gonna take this and make more
celery from it. You take a bowl, put in about two inches of water.
Place the bottom of the celery, bottom down, into the bowl. Put the whole thing into direct
sunlight.Change the water every couple of days, otherwise the whole situation will rot. Gross.
And wait for your celery to sprout. When you see those roots starting to form, you can transfer
the whole thing into soil and it'll just keep on growing until you've got all the celery you want.
Let's do green onion next! So cut from the bottom about two inches. Let's say one, let's say two.
Now this is going to be used in a very secret and special recipe for later.
And this is going to be used to birth more green onion. So go ahead and drop that into a cup,
like so. Put this into direct sunlight. Change the water every couple of days,
same as with the celery, otherwise it will be rotten. Gross. And just wait for more green
onion to magically appear. Well, it's not magic, it's science. It's nature. And it's delicious.
Last up, we have lettuce. It's very similar to the celery and the green onion. You cut
it right about there. You're going to add about two inches of water.
Drop it in, like so. Okay, so the whole thing same as before. Direct sunlight,
change the water every couple of days, and after about a week and a half you will see
a stunning new piece of lettuce emerge right from the center of this old scrap.
And there you have it! Three vegetables easily grown into new vegetables. It's free food!
Are you feeling guilty that you're not composting at home? You should. Because it's really easy.
I'm just kidding, do whatever you want, but it honestly is very easy. So what even
is composting? Let's start with the definition: composting is the act of mixing organic materials
into nutrient-filled soil, as they decompose over time. To get started, you're going to need a bin.
We're gonna do a indoor cold compost, so pretty much any small container from around
the house will work for this. You're just going to want to make sure that
you have a lid with evenly spaced holes at the top. That is going to allow your compost
to breathe. That's going to help with that decomposition. Let's talk about our compost
recipe. This one was passed down to me by my grandmother. Alright, you'll start with soil,
that's going to cover the first quarter of your bin. So I'll put that in in a second. And then
from there you want the rest of the recipe to be 50% green materials and 50% brown materials. And
another way of thinking about green materials is stuff like this. So we've got some orange peels,
bread crust, vegetable scraps, these are coffee grounds in the filter. The filter can go in too,
although the filter would technically be a brown material, which would include newspaper,
cardboard, wood scraps, that kind of thing. So all of this is going to go into your bin, again,
with the soil first and then we're going to start mixing everything up
Yes, messy.
Okay, now I'm gonna mix it up. [fast forward sounds]
Okay, everything's all mixed up. And remember, it's good to break things apart into smaller
pieces. That'll just help it decompose faster. You're going to want to make sure that this
stays moist and damp to the touch, and you can do that by spraying in water a couple times a week.
That's the stuff! And that's it! You are on your way to nutrient-rich soil
that you can grow things in. Decomposition! Fun!
[cheering] That's a scrap!
Uh oh, another scrap coming [laughs].