“I do sometimes kill plants with my experiments, because some stuff doesn’t work and I over-stress the plants. “I give away a lot of seedlings,” he says. “Everyone knows that food comes from seeds,” he says, “but we throw away so many of them.”Īdamjan’s apartment is a veritable jungle of plants at all stages of life. Many of his videos explain how to regrow peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, lemons, oranges, avocados, pineapples, dragon fruit, and other edible plants from discarded seeds. If it has seeds, you can generate plants –and food–from it, says Adamjan. One fertilizer Adamjan swears by is banana water. “I purposely live in a place with no garden because it forces me to learn how to grow things in apartments, so I can learn from the experience and share that,” he says. Sometimes it takes weeks to discover solutions, but he doesn’t stop until he figures it out. His apartment is filled with seedlings and houseplants. Then, he experiments and experiments more with how to process the material and extract these nutrients. He spends hours researching the nutrients hiding inside all these things we typically throw out. Worth noting: Adamjan starts each hack by using organic produce that contains no chemicals. Many of Adamjan’s hacks are about rescuing these materials from the garbage bin, and then boiling, soaking, grinding and combining them into fertilizers and plant food. Organic material like cucumber skin, pineapple rinds, banana and citrus peels, and even used tea bags are packed with nutrients that plants crave like potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen, calcium, and magnesium. “So much of the food we discard has untapped potential.” ‘Why do we do this when we have so many magical ingredients in our garbage bins?” says Adamjan. Gardeners spend a lot of money on chemical fertilizers. All I want to do is find ways to simplify everyday life, help people, have fun, and do cool things.” 5 Must-Watch Sustainability Hacks Make Natural Fertilizers From Food Scraps And when people get excited, they get inspired to make a change. “You get excited about something, then people get excited along with you. “When you’re passionate about something, it shows,”Adamjan says. (Volume #3 of Don’t Throw It Out comes out this month.) Each project comes with a QR code that readers can scan to take them straight to the video in case they need a burst of energy for inspiration. Don’t Throw It Outand Don’t Throw It Out 2 pull all his ingenious hacks onto the printed page with more details than he can provide in a 60-second video. That’s why he has also published two books about his hacks. “Some people find them a bit overwhelming,” he says with a chuckle. I find the energy he brings to his short-format videos to be utterly charming and addictive, but Adamjan knows they are not for everyone. “I never set out to be a sustainability expert, I just wanted to make cool videos about stuff I was into.”Īs a lover of gardening, food, and all things sustainability, Adamjan’s mantra of “don’t throw it out” is right in my wheelhouse. “I noticed I was preaching about not throwing stuff out,” says Adamjan. The videos Adamjan produces focus on repurposing, regrowing, recycling, and upcycling things in your house in non-toxic, organic, healthy ways.Īdamjan, who recently took home the 2022 Sustainability Influencer of the Year Award, is sometimes surprised by the career path he is following. In the three years since he uploaded the scallion video, Adamjan, known on socials as creative_explained, has amassed more than 15 million followers across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Some call him “Plant Jesus” and he doesn’t mind a bit. to see if he could make a living by sharing them with the world. He decided to pursue his love of plants and gardening hacks. I made a 15-second video, posted it on TikTok, then forgot about it and went about my day.” The next day, the video had been viewed more than 100,00 times. “I wondered if people knew that you could regrow them. “I hadn’t made any videos in months, and as I was chopping some green onions for lunch,” he says. Like many people, Adamjan was going stir crazy with little to do. In March 2020, 33-year old filmmaker Armen Adamjan, was stranded at his parents’ house in Providence, Rhode Island, for two months during a Covid lockdown. Write to her at all started with the butt end of a scallion. Outside’s Head of Sustainability, Kristin Hostetter, explores small lifestyle tweaks that can make a big impact. Doing right by the planet can make you happier, healthier, and-yes-wealthier.
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