The first step to making homemade juice is to wash and prep all your ingredients. If you’re using organic ingredients, there is no need to peel vegetables with thin skins (like cucumber, beets, and ginger). But if you aren’t using organic vegetables, I recommend peeling them. For thick skins like lemons, you’ll want to slice off the peel. Chop all ingredients into small enough ingredients that they will go through the juicer easily.

Turn on the juicer and push through all of your ingredients. Once everything goes through, you will have fresh juice come out of one end and dry pulp from the other which you can add to your compost.