13. Why composting is so important and how an innovative startup is making it easy - with Lauren Clarke from Turn

Lauren Clarke is the Founder and CEO of Turn, a Dallas/Ft. Worth
based environmental startup that benefits businesses and
households while reducing their environmental impact through
composting. Lauren has a very unique and diverse background with
degrees in Violin Performance from the University of North Texas,
Strategic Communications from Columbia University, and Culinary
Arts from El Centro College! Her love for cooking and gardening
grew into a passion for composting. She realized that food waste
is a major problem and compost is such a valuable resource for
our soil and gardens, so she created an environmental services
business around it!


Lauren is also a certified Master Gardener with Texas A&M
AgriLife (Class of 2013) and a certified composting specialist
with Texas A&M AgriLife. She is educated as a compost
facility operator with the US Composting Council, and she is also
a Certified Culinarian with the American Culinary Federation.


Lauren launched Turn on Earth Day 2018 with a residential pilot
in one Dallas zip code. Their vision is to help consumers and
businesses rethink and reuse their urban natural environment. Two
years later, they’ve expanded their doorstep service to 17 Dallas
zip codes and opened over a dozen mobile drop-off stations around
the Dallas metroplex, including several in partnership with Whole
Foods Market. Turn collects organics from their members (through
a subscription-based model) and transport it to local farmers and
other partners who can responsibly recycle it.


Lauren and the Turn team also educate and consult on
sustainability practices related to the food cycle. Check out the
Turn website (https://www.turncompost.com/classes) for a list of
available classes. And if you’re looking for a fun session around
composting for your business, organization, or class, get in
touch with Lauren (even if you’re not in the Dallas area)!


In this week’s bonus episode, Lauren shares some fun and
informative stories about how she has turned (no pun intended)
her entire yard into an edible landscape and how she has embraced
chickens as important members of her family!





Turn links:


- Visit their website: www.turncompost.com


- Check them out on Instagram: @turncompost
(www.instagram.com/turncompost)


- Visit their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/turncompost


- Check out Turn’s partners, Farmers Assisting Returning
Military: www.farmingveterans.org





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