(KERO) — If you need some fertilizer for your plants just give them the extra scraps for your food!
According to research from UC Riverside, fermented food waste could be used to deliver beneficial bacteria to food plants.
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They also found that beneficial microbes on crops "increased dramatically" when the food waste was added to plant-growing systems in a greenhouse.
Studies show the fermented food waste appears to help plants resist pathogens and could reduce carbon emissions from farming.
