As part of HuffPosts Reclaim project, HuffPost Taste will focus the entire month of July on simple ways you can reduce food waste in your own home.

Summer is a time of great harvest, but it often feels impossible to eat the abundance of fresh produce before it goes bad. And then theres the scraps. The amount of watermelon rind left behind alone is enough to fill an entire trash can in a matter of days (btw, you can and should be pickling that ), not to mention corn husks and cobs from backyard grill outs (theres also some good stuff you can do with that!).