Day 5 – Re-grow your vegetables with Nicole Smith

This post is a part of the “15 Days of Green Tips for 15 years of Keep Carroll Beautiful” Virtual Birthday Celebration. Every day between April 8 and April 22, a member of KCB Board, Staff, or the public, will share their favorite tips on how to Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle!

Nicole Smith is a Carroll County native. She works at Walker Meats, a company her father started, and is a Board Secretary for Keep Carroll Beautiful. Living off of the Carrollton Square, Nicole and her family enjoy being able to walk everywhere, be it dinner, the book store, or a park or the Carrollton Greenbelt!

Nicole is sharing one of her favorite tips on easy and free gardening – grow your trash!

https://www.facebook.com/keepcarrollbeautiful/videos/1047006922347815/

There are many vegetables that will “regrow” from discarded parts:

• Celery (root)
• Scallions (root or whole bottom)
• Onions (root)
• Ginger (root)
• Potatoes and Sweet potatoes (cut off a piece with a spud)
• Pineapple (from top)
• Bok Choi and other Asian greens (root)
• Lettuces, cabbage, and collards (root)
• Basil, parsley, dill (by rooting stems)
• Peppers, tomatoes, winter squash (from seeds)
• Avocadoes (pit)

A little patience will take you a long way:

How to make a painted leaf mobile:

• Step 1: go on a nature walk and collect leaves of different sizes. Find a stick to tie them all to.
• Step 2: paint the leaves! Be sure to paint the fronts and backs.
• Step 3: allow time for the paint to dry. Cut strings of different lengths.
• Step 4: tie one end of the strings to each leaf, tie the other end to the stick.
• Step 5: cut a long string, tie one end to each side of the stick so that you can hang up your work of art!

Check how and what to regrow from scraps:

🌱 Regrowing different types of vegetable and fruit: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/reduce-food-waste-regrow-from-scraps/
🌱 How hard is it to regrow your food? https://www.buzzfeed.com/arielknutson/vegetables-that-magically-regrow-themselves