{"id":104598,"date":"2022-12-07T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=104598"},"modified":"2024-07-03T05:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:28:15","slug":"episode-43-reingard-rieger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/episode-43-reingard-rieger\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 43: Reingard Rieger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104599\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/RR_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/RR_banner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/aZ0hAfiZ-RR_banner-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/RR_banner.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/25240272\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Master Composter Reingard Rieger, Ph.D., breaks down composting, urban gardening and Seattle Public Utilities\u2019 Master Composter Sustainability Program managed by Tilth Alliance in this episode of Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn about Seattle Public Utilities\u2019 Master Composter Sustainability Program (managed by Tilth Alliance), which trains 30 to 35 volunteers each year to go into the community and educate others about composting, soil health, recycling, stormwater management and more. From mandatory food-waste composting to mandatory recycling, Seattle\u2019s sustainability programs have had a big payoff: From 2004-2019, the tonnage of compostable material going to the landfill was reduced by 40 percent, even while the city\u2019s population grew by 30 percent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get Reingard\u2019s professional advice to start or improve your own composting or, as she says, \u201cfarming the microbes.\u201d Hear about vermiculture (worm composting) basics, worms\u2019 preferred vegan diet and the science behind how we get worm castings. And learn about food-digester worm bins, which are easy to build and use in your own garden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reingard shares her experience in building a 10,000-square-foot backyard garden and a front-yard rain garden in Seattle and talks about her family\u2019s farming background in Austria, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tilthalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tilth Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tilthalliance.org\/our-work\/environmental-stewardship\/master-composter-sustainability-stewards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Master Composter Sustainability Steward Program<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tilthalliance.org\/resources-category\/compost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tilth Alliance\u2019s composting resources<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/utilities\/your-services\/collection-and-disposal\/food-and-yard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seattle Public Utilities food and yard waste resources<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOBBY FARMS PRESENTS: GROWING GOOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5349,"featured_media":96389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[821,11047,10943,11140],"class_list":["post-104598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-compost","tag-hobby-farms-presents-growing-good","tag-podcast","tag-reingard-rieger"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Episode 43: Reingard Rieger - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Episode 43: Growing Good with Reingard Rieger! 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