K-12 Food Rescue: Recent Episodes
John Williamson
Follow the journey of students and adult leaders across the country to lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in their school districts.
Listen to the inspiring 13 year school food waste solution journey of Jennifer Trent, the program manager of the Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University Of Northern Iowa.
Listen to the inspiring stories of Iris Saxer and Dave Hudacsko, school food waste solution leaders in Teton Valley Idaho. Dave is the owner of RAD Curbside, who manages all waste hauling and curbside recycling in Teton Valley, and Iris has been championing food waste solutions in Teton Valley Idaho for several years.
Listen to Amy Hammes, a Recycling Specialist In Burbank California, share her story of learning about school food waste and finding successful solutions.
Listen to the Child Nutrition Director of the Umatilla School District, Rikkilyn Starlipper, as well as Food Corps member Lourdes Yparraguirre, share their inspiring journey to reduce food waste in the Umatilla School District in Oregon.
Listen to Rhode Island High School Students Bella Quiroa and Emma Pautz share their journey fighting school food waste with the Youth Composting Campaign Initiative, and several other action steps they have taken to battle school food waste.
John Gregg Elementary School student leaders know that #FoodIsNotTrash! Listen to their inspiring story, as well as the story of their 5th and 6th grade science teacher, Tally Pasiuk.
Listen to the exciting journey of finding school food waste solutions at IPS 39 William McKinley Elementary, as told by Instructional Coach Sharon Sellers and students Addyson Hall and Malaya Loredo.
Listen to Erin Dorr, a facilities management consultant for Bedford Public Schools in MA, share how she first became interested in the subject of school food waste, and the steps she took to make a difference and lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in Bedford Public Schools.
Hear the inspiring story of the founder of The Should Project, Andrew Plotkin, as he shares how he learned about wasted food in schools, and what he did to make sure 40 pounds a day of food in one school is given to a local caring agency instead of feeding landfills.
https://www.theshouldproject.org/
Fountain Valley Food Rescue is featured on the 104th episode of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast. Students Stella Rhee, Annabelle Cabaniss, and Gunnar Mason, along with the science department chair of Fountain Valley, Danielle Llewelyn, share the storyof Fountain Valley Food Rescue in Colorado.
Mark and Mallory Topoozian are siblings in Fresno California, and Mark attended Bullard High School, and Mallory currently attends Bullard High School. Mark started a school recovery program that spread to 25 schools, and Mallory started a monthly effort to provide food for food insecure families for she and her classmates to participate in. Mallory is also involved the food recovery program Mark founded at Bullard and beyond. Mark recently graduated from college, and Mallory is currently a Sophomore, and they were nice enough to take the time with me together to share their story on the 103rd episode of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast.
The Zionsville Presbyterian Church Food Pantry has partnered with the Zionsville Community Schools and K-12 Food Rescue since 2015, rescuing an estimated 315,000 pounds of food from 9 schools that is distributed 2 days a week to children and families in need in the community. Angie Campbell, Stephanie Mbathi, and Austin Ide have volunteered faithfully for many years, and in this episode, they share the many ways the K-12 Food Rescue has impacted the community, even beyond the hunger relief provided. For more information, you can learn more about the ZPC Food Pantry at the link below.
https://www.zpc.org/event/1753814-2022-11-03-zionsville-food-pantry/
In celebration of Food Rescue's 18th year, and our 100th episode of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast, John Williamson, our founder, president, and executive director, tells the Food Rescue story from 2006 to present. Discover how Food Rescue came into existence, and how and why the transition to K-12 Food Rescue with a focus on student education and leadership came to pass.
Emilie Dirck works with San Mateo Health and provides training on food waste audits and school share tables. San Mateo Health has a full section of their website dedicated to these subjects.
https://www.smchealth.org/sharetable
There are currently 11 of 300 schools in the school districts they serve involved directly with Emilie and San Mateo Health, with 4 more to be onboarded soon. That leaves 285 opportunities for growth of the program in San Mateo. Based on Emilie's observations from the share table program and food waste audits in participating schools, if the remaining 285 schools in San Mateo participated, over 7 million food items could be fed to children and families in need rather than landfills. Reach out to Emilie today to learn more about share tables and food waste audits by going to the link above.
Brittany Gage is a school food waste solution leader in Billings Public Schools in Montana with Sodexo. Montana is the 31st state featured on the K-12 Food Rescue podcast, and we are excited to bring you this story. Brittany shares about acquiring food waste tracking software from LeanPath, as well as the utilization of share tables within the school district.
Jill Riggs is the director of food service at Penn Harris Madison School Corporation. She has been leading school food waste solutions at Penn Harris since at least 2012, and the impact of 15 schools donating instead of dumping for 12 years is very inspiring, and we hope you enjoy hearing her story and the story Penn Harris Madison School Corporation.
Linda Williams started the Fishers UMC food pantry in 2007, almost the exact same time that Food Rescue was founded. In 2016, the Fishers UMC food pantry was once of the very first food pantry partners involved with K-12 Food Rescue, picking up from 7 schools in the Hamilton Southeaster School District.
Listen to the inspiring story of Indianapolis Public Schools Jonathon Jennings (IPS 109) Family and Community Liaison, Veronica Fuentes, and her effort to restore the schools' K-12 Food Rescue program after the pandemic.
We are excited to share the food waste solution journey of Cornell University Sophomore, Trisha Bhujle. When Trisha was a senior in high school in Texas, she wrote a letter to the Lewisville Independent School District regarding suggestions to reduce food waste in her school district, and we recently stumble upon that letter that she published on her Substack, calle the Sentimental Environmentalist. She has gone on to pursue her passion for both hunger relief and environmental sustainability issues while at Cornell, and we believe it's important to highlight people who take their interest in food waste and take an action step, such as a compelling letter to a school district. Trisha's letter provided a great template to follow for so many, and we are happy to share that letter on today's podcast.
https://sentimentalenvironmentalist.substack.com/p/local-food-waste-reduction-an-email
Listen to the exciting school food waste solution journey of Marie Johnson, the Student Nutrition Program Coordinator at Farmington Municipal Schools and former New Mexico Nutrition Association President, and Paula Szczepanek, the Resident District Manager with K-12 By Elior, a food service company partnering with Farmington Municipal Schools.
This marks the 30th state we have recorded an episode regarding a successful school food waste solution program. Due to some difficulty with the podcast connections in New Mexico, Paula had to call into the podcast on a cell phone, so the audio is a little rougher than normal, but we were glad to hear her and the Elior food service perspective on the partnership with Farmington Municipal Schools.
Hear the inspiring story of City Barbeque's Food Rescue Program, as told by Ronnie Berry, their Chief Administrative Officer. City Barbeque is a fast growing scratch restaurant with 70 locations nation wide.
Listen to the exciting journey of Robert Lee, the Co-Founder of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, a national food rescue organization. Robert left his job at JP Morgan in his early 20's to pursue leading the #FoodIsNotTrash movement through Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. RLC has rescued millions of pounds of food since it's foundation as a Not for Profit organization since 2015.
Hear the inspiring story of Windy Ridge gifted and talented teacher Marta Heistand, as she shares how her students led the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in 2019 at Windy Ridge through their K-12 Food Rescue Share Table and food pantry partner program.
Listen to the inspiring partnership between Noblesville Schools, The White River Christian Food Pantry, and Food Rescue. The WRCC food pantry has received an estimated 350,000 food items in the past 7 years from the Noblesville School District's K-12 Food Rescue Program according to our guest Jeff Demasie, the food pantry director.
Listen to Vicki Ballas, the Michigan State UniversityExtension Community Nutrition Instructor, discuss the' inspiring story of theMunising Public School's Mustang Food Share Program.
K-12 Food Rescue celebrates the early days of our Food Rescue efforts with this vey special episode with Mike Cookman and Jocelyn Challas. Hear how Jocelyn answered a Craigslist ad from Food Rescue for a service opportunity in Charlotte in 2008 to take surplus food from a restaurant to a food pantry regularly, and how Mike Cookman joined her team and went on to found the Food Recovery Group in Charlotte NC, which has rescued over 8 million dollars of retail food since 2010 with 36 volunteers.
Take a trip down memory lane as we reflect on the growth of Food Rescue, in the hope of perhaps exposing listeners interested in rescuing food in schools to other food rescue opportunities outside of schools. Hear the inspiring story of Athens Food Rescue founder Teresa Curtiss, and how her efforts have led to over 270,000 food items donated to caring agencies feeding children and families in need since 2014. In this episode, we discuss the rapid growth of Food Rescue organizations since 2014 when there was very little information available on the subject.
Listen to the inspiring story of how one food pantry serves their local school district by recovering their surplus food and distributing it to children and families in need in their community. #FoodIsNotTrash. The episode features Allison Lehane, Jane Merrow, and Bay James, who all play key roles in the distribution of rescued food from schools in Newbury.
Hear the inspiring story school food waste solution journey of Shelby Cornett, The Park City School District Sustainability Coordinator in Park City Utah.
Listen to the inspiring story of the partnership between Indianapolis Public Schools, The Martin Luther King Center, The Boulevard Place Food Pantry, and K-12 Food Rescue, as told by Matt Hayes, the Executive Director of the Boulevard Place Food Pantry.
Listen to the inspiring story of High School Freshmen Lily Wheeler and Jolee Flynn on their journey to eliminate school food waste in their school district in Natick Massachusetts.
Listen to the inspiring story of Samantha Sandhaus and Feeding Philly on their journey to end school food waste in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Listen to the inspiring story of share tables and school food pantries in 6 schools in Dekalb Central as told by Aubrey Gough, the food service director and Dekalb Central. Their share tables have rescued an estimated 378,000 food items since 2016.
Listen to Faculty Fellow Susanne Lee from the Senator George J Mitchell Center For Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine share the results of their school food waste study, as well as her passion for seeing an end to wasted food in Maine K-12 schools and beyond.
South Harrison Schools Food Service Coordinator Stephanie Zimmerman shares her story of onboarding 7 cafeterias to participate in share tables in the school district, resulting in an estimated 31,000 food items rescued in 7 cafetieres for 8 schools annually.
Hear the inspiring story of how Lee's Summit R-7 School District Nutrition Service Director Lori Danella implemented share tables in 25 schools in her district. An estimated 200,000 food items will now be rescued annually as a result of the districts commitment to lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in Lee's Summit R-7.
Hear the inspiring story of Hamden CT school teacher and Bear Path Green Team leader, Doreen Stohler, and how she inspired the students of Bear Path School to lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement.
Listen to the inspiring story of a New Hampshire Elementary School Teacher, Tara Happy, and how being frustrated watching food being wasted in the school cafeteria led to a truly empowering student leadership experience at Hollis Elementary.
Listen to the inspiring story of Hilliard Elementary intervention specialist in Ohio, Ekta Chabria, and her journey to empower her students to lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement through composting and K-12 Food Rescue.
Listen to the inspiring journey of New Hampshire K-12 Food Rescue Food Waste Solution Leader Paul Karpawich With Sustainable Transitions. This is the 26th state represented on the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast, and we are excited to share Paul's story.
Listen to the inspiring journey of K-12 Food Rescue Food Waste Solution Leader Katherine Rakowski in Wisconsin. Katherine is the Education and Agriculture Coordinator for the Bayfield School District, and she leads a composting and share table initiative in the Bayfield School District in Wisconsin.
Listen to the inspiring food waste solution journey of Cedar Walters, the Public Information Officer for the Otter Tail County Solid Waste Department in Minnesota. Cedar worked closely with Cleveland Elementary and others through a grant to develop food waste solutions and lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in Otter Tail County
Hear the inspiring K-12 Food Rescue story of Carol Phipps and the Interchurch Food Pantry of Johnson County in Indiana. They pick up over95,000 pounds of rescued food items per year, which is the equivalent of over 350,000 food items from over 20 Marion County schools in 2 school districts.
https://www.jccf.org/interchurch-food-pantry-of-johnson-county
Listen to the story of school food waste solution leader Vanessa Robertson, who is the Executive Director of Envirolution in Carson City, Nevada. In this episode, Vanessa shares about the Envirolution teacher curriculum Project Recharge, as well as the their partnership with over 100 schools around the country, including Empire Elementary in Nevada.
Listen to the inspiring journey of a life skills teacher in Pennsylvania and one of her students, as they share the story of the "share refrigerator" at Palmyra HS, that rescues over 800 food items per week.
Hear the inspiring story of Tamika Fordham, a school teacher in South Carolina, who is helping her students lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in their school district.
Listen to the inspiring story of Nick Pease and the Grace Care Center in Hamilton County Indiana and how they partnered with K-12 Food Rescue to lead the #FoodIsNotTrash Movement in Hamilton County Schools, leading to the rescuing of an estimated 500,000 food items in 7 years in Hamilton County Schools.
Hear the inspiring story of Empire Elementary and Adrienne Wiggins, a teacher with a passion to support students who are inspired to lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement!
Hear the inspiring story of Flagstaff Academy Green Team members Kassidy Brackett and Elyse Prestopnik in Longmont Colorado, and their elementary science teacher and Green Team Leader Stacy Wolff. Their Food Rescue table is teaching their fellow students and community that #FoodIsNotTrash!
Hear the story of a White Plains School District parent in New York, Anna Giordano, and her journey to find solutions to school food waste.
Hear the story of the birth of the "share fridge" at Palmyra High School in Pennsylvania from the perspective of Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher and school food waste solution leader Jodi Stafford.
Hear the inspiring school food waste solution journey of the Malakoff Independent School District through the eyes of their Superintendent Don Layton. Learn about the steps needed to establish a Share Table or Share Refrigerator in Texas schools and beyond!
Hear Oregon School Food Waste Solution Student Leader Mia Aberle share her journey of establishing a composting program at Clackamas High School, and how it is leading to discussions about rescuing some of the nutritious unopened and unpeeled food items from the trays of students that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill from school lunches.
Laurel Bates is the Waste Reduction Education Coordinator in Clackamas County in Oregon. Hear how Laurel connected with an inspiring high school student in Clackamas County who was very interested in the subject of school food waste and finding a a solution, and what happened what happened next.
Here the inspiring story of the impact of the Center Grove K-12 Food Rescue program in the lives families in need served by the Impact Center in Greenwood Indiana. Pastor Steve Saunders shares data and stories from a food bank point of view that indicates the importance of expanding the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in schools across America.
Listen to Katherine Bruns, West Hartford's Recycling Coordinator, share her journey to start food scrap programs in the West Hartford School District, as well as her observations about unopened and unpeeled food items from the trays of students that could be rescued in the future.
Hear the inspiring story of how Center Grove Schools have rescued over 600,000 food items over 7 years and donated them to the Impact Center in their community who feeds over 200 families each week. All 600,000 plus food items would have ended up in a landfill if it were not for their K-12 Food Rescue program. #FoodIsNotTrash
Hear the inspiring story of school food waste solution leader Joe Richardson, the Director of Mountainside Education and Enrichment and Lunch Out of Landfills. Joe has actively engaged youth in Frederick Maryland and beyond to lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in the U.S.
Hear the inspiring story of Regina Hawkins, a school teacher in Chicago Illinois who noticed nutritious food being wasted and did something about it! The Southside Occupational Academy K-12 Food Rescue share table rescues 200 items a week at the Southside Occupational Academy and makes sure children and families in need are fed those nutritious food items instead of a landfill. #FoodIsNotTrash.
Hear the inspiring story of Laura Oxner, Director of a program called RePurpose with "A simple Gesture" in Greensboro North Carolina. Laura has been involved in rescuing food for 9 years, where she started as a Regional Director with Rock and Wrap it Up, which developed “snack wrap” food recovery programs in North Carolina schools, where there are now 34 schools involved.
Listen to the story of how a Macomber Primary Teacher Ms. Theresa Pacheco started a K-12 Food Rescue program in 2 different schools in Westport Massachusetts. Ms. Pacheco is currently a health and wellness teacher at the Westport elementary school, where she started a second K-12 Food Rescue program in the Westport school district. Hear from 2 Westport Elementary students, Abby Carr and Eleanor Melo, how K-12 Food Rescue is making a difference in their community, and why they rescue food each week from their school.
Hear the inspiring story of Compostology, founded by high school students Angelina Xu and Advika Agarwal in Maryland. In this episode, Angelina and Advika share about receiving a $48,000 grant from the World Wildlife Fund, and how they are using a student led post card campaign to seek funding for composting programs in schools through legislation. (SB124)
Hear the inspiring story Mia Boohoff, a New Jersey High School student who noticed a lot of food being wasted in her elementary school when she was 8 years old.
Listen to the inspiring story of Steve Gudorf, a retired food service administrator from the Indianapolis Public Schools, and how his team of volunteers gets rescued school food to children and families in need via the Martin Luther King Center in Indianapolis and other caring agencies to insure surplus food in IPS feeds families and not landfills.
Listen to the inspiring story of 6 Indianapolis Public Schools connecting with the Martin Luther King Center in Indianapolis to insure surplus food in IPS feeds families and not landfills. Lacrisha Hollins and Sarah Ferguson share how rescued food impacts the Martin Luther King Center, and the families that are served by the Center.
Hear the inspiring story of Shrusti Amula, a high school student in Rockville Maryland who started a composting program that led to three, then seven, and soon to be 10 schools in her school district composting their food waste instead of sending it to an incinerator emitting harmful methane gas into the environment. Her interest in composting led her to discover K-12 Food Rescue online, and she is doing everything in her power to spread the program throughout her school district and the state of Maryland.
Pleasantview Elementary STEM teacher in Zionsville Indiana, Amy Brandau, shares her story of resuming K-12 Food Rescue after Covid, and continuing the legacy started by Jill McCune in her building.
Listen to the school food waste journey of Jessica Shelly, Director of Student Dining Service at Cincinnati Public Schools, and her incredible leadership to implement share tables in all 67 Cincinnati public schools, resulting in over 580,000 food items rescued annually in Cincinnati Public Schools. Be inspired!
Hear the inspiring story of South Bay Sustainable Community founder Tina Matthias, and how a community composting endeavor evolved to include a vibrant student led K-12 Food Rescue project in multiple schools in her district.
Hear the inspiring story of a Helen Morgan Elementary teacher in New Jersey, Morgan Bleakley, as she shares how an 8 year old student came to her with an idea for their school to stop food wasting food in Sparta New Jersey, and the impact that followed.
Jon Meinert is the director of Food Rescue and Transportation Second Helpings in Indianapolis. Hear how the logistics between Second Helpings and 11 Washington Township schools in Indianapolis have led to over half a million food items preserved since 2017 to feed children and families in need, and over 67,000 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents prevented from entering into the environment.
In 2021, Illinois passed historic school food waste solution legislation through SB805. The legislation stated that school districts SHALL establish a plan in their wellness policy to address unused food within their school districts. Representative Greenwood co-sponsored the bill in Illinois, and she shares her thoughts about the bill and the importance of school food waste solutions in this episode of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast.
Hear how Jennifer Anderson spearheaded the effort to have a school food waste solution turned into law in West Virginia.
Hear the inspiring story of how West Virginia Delegate Chad Lovejoy discovered the school food waste issue, and how he partnered with other advocates to craft HB4478, which led to many West Virginia schools adopting K-12 Food Rescue practices, but specifically breakfast and lunch share tables.
Hear Amanda’s story about what piqued her interest in school food waste and how she went from knowing very little about the subject to being fully prepared to make a presentation to her school in 2 weeks.
Listen to Sara Sellitti’s inspiring journey as a K-12 Food Rescue leader in Dobbs Ferry New York. Sara discusses the success and challenges of starting a school garden, composting, and K-12 Food Rescue program in New York.
Hear the inspiring story of Kari Gassman and her journey to develop a K-12 Food Rescue program in her school district after witnessing several school lunch periods one afternoon.
Hear the inspiring story of how Leah McMichael learned about food waste in her school and put together a plan involving students in the solution.
Hear Jill McCune’s inspiring story of teaching kindergarten children about the value of food as a teacher in Zionsville Indiana leading a K-12 Food Rescue program since 2016.
Hear how 4 students, Ari, Emma, Megan, and Amaya, and their teacher Mrs. Anjali Das, worked together to start a K-12 Food Rescue program in their school district in Upper Arlington Ohio.
Hear the inspiring story of Audra Shock, who was instrumental in starting a K-12 Food Rescue program in Hamilton Heights School District as well as The Noblesville School District. Audra also helped establish a Fueled for School program in Noblesville, insuring every student would have food over the weekend with a backpack program that sends food home with students who might need it.
Hear the inspiring story of Anjali Das, a school teacher in Upper Arlington Ohio who became inspired to solve the food waste issue in her school by empowering 9 students to impact their community and world through K-12 Food Rescue.
Hear Dr. Ghita Carroll’s inspiring story they started in 2005 to reduce waste in the Boulder Valley School District. Dr. Carroll is the Sustainability Coordinator in the BVSD. Mary Rochelle also shares her experiences since joining the BVSD as a manager in the nutrition services department at BVSD!
Hear the Impact of K-12 Food Rescue in the Avon school district in Indiana from 30 year military veteran David Rieger, who is the director the Lutheran Church food pantry in Avon, and Emily Cates, the Director of Nutrition at Avon Schools.
Hear Linda Temme’s journey as a social worker and K-12 Food Rescue Leader at Shortridge HS in the Indianapolis Public School District. Learn also about the Million Meal Day of Service where Shortridge HS students donated 28,000 meals in one day to local food pantries.
Hear Sydney Dressler’s inspiring story about re-starting Daniel Webster’s K-12 Food Rescue after a year long induced Covid 19 shut down. Daniel Webster rescues over 30,000 food items per year through their K-12 Food Rescue program.
Listen to the inspiring story of Mohamed Patel, K-12 Food Rescue leader and teacher at Cypress high school in the Orlando Florida area.
Listen to the inspiring K-12 Food Rescue journey of JanakiKutty Vipin, Biology teacher at Kingstree HS in South Carolina, and how she was able to apply for and receive a grant of $1,500 to start the Share Table program at Kingstree HS.
Hear the inspiring story of how Valpo Community schools pivoted from Share Tables to Giving Tables during the pandemic.
Hear Cathy’s inspiring journey with K-12 Food Rescue partner Helping Hands Ending Hunger. In this episode, Cathy discusses how many participating schools continued their food rescue programs during Covid 19.
Listen to Robin Young of Here and Now interview Food Rescue founder and president John Williamson and Connecticut student leader Nick Iannone to learn about how students deal with states with more restrictive school food donation donation guidelines than the USDA.
Listen to Western Intermediate Students discuss how they work together with students involved in Life Skills courses to lead the K-12 Food Rescue program in their school, led by their teacher Christy Frazier.
Hear Vitki’s inspiring effort to end the practice of wasting food in her Texas school district.
Hear the inspiring story of how three high school students at Solon High School founded Project Leftovers, an organization committed to preserving unopened and unpeeled food from the trays of students that was previously unnecessarily being thrown away.
Ruhi Shirodkar shares her K-12 Food Rescue journey in Minnesota. Be inspired by one student who overcame adversity to make a positive impact in her community and state by fighting food waste in her school.
Hear the story of young Tennessee K-12 Food Rescue food waste fighters and their teacher Karen McIntyre.
Listen to Riya’s inspiring story of connecting surplus food in her Chicago school to a local caring agency each day!
Listen to the story of how one school nutrition service director, Lindsey Hill, in one school district changed the world! Hear how custodian David Ward and former Food Rescue chapter president Brooke Carrell presented the problem and provided the solution to surplus school food that was sadly ending up in landfills instead of being fed to families through food pantries.
Hear Elaine Fiore’s powerful story about policy development, systemic change, and organizational foundation related to establishing Share Tables and K-12 Food Rescue polices in Broward County Florida, other counties in Florida, and the nation.
Hear the inspiring story of how Rhonda Mace in Chittenden VT played a large role in Vermont becoming the second state in the US after Indiana to have their government state departments write guidelines for Share Tables and recovering food in schools in 2016. Hear the power of advocacy and learn how your state government can play a role in schools becoming more comfortable feeding families instead of landfills with unopened and unpeeled food from e trays of students that they choose not to eat. #FoodIsNotTrash.
Learn about Delayne’s K-12 Food Rescue journey at CapRock Elementary in the Forth Worth Texas area.
Hear Lili Coleman with Second Helpings and Michele Dewan with Hilton Head Elementary share their journey to end school food waste in South Carolina.
Danyele shares her K-12 Food Rescue journey as a leader with students with special needs in Westfield Indiana at Food Rescue’s 10 year anniversary celebration.
Listen to the story of three students who have gone on to sustain a K-12 Food Rescue program not only in their Elementary but now in their Middle School. Hear their palms to continue the program once they reach Noblesville HS, and how it has spread throughout their school district.
Karen Khor shares her efforts as a parent volunteer in the Mamaroneck school district to develop a K-12 Food Rescue program in Mamaroneck.
Hanna shares how a HS project her Sophomore year led to her becoming K-12 Food Rescue’s National Director of Student leadership for 2 years. Her journey also includes a transition from program implementation to advocate for policy change, as North Carolina’s school food waste guidelines have temporarily ended her vision to have all schools in NC adopt food recovery policies. Be inspired by her #nofoodwaste story!
Tanis Fox tells her Inspiring story of being a food waste fighting champion through Table of Grace Ministries in Pennsylvania. Tanis Learned about food waste through her daughter, and she immediately googled Food Rescue and the rest is history.
Hear the inspiring story of 2 school food waste champions in Georgia and how they are expanding Helping Hands Ending Hunger beyond Georgia. HHEH has initiated over 60 school food recovery programs and partnered with Georgia’s Department of Education and Department of Health. #FoodIsNotTrash
Be inspired by Shawn’s a story of how he started a Share Table at Hoover Elementary in Livonia Michigan through an Eco Schools USA project. #FoodIsNotTrash
Hear Janet Whited’s K-12 Food Rescue journey, and be inspired by the over 500,000 pounds of food she has been able to rescue in the San Diego Unified School District while leading the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in San Diego.
Jennifer Janus shares her inspiring journey to promote K-12 Food Rescue throughout Connecticut and lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement.
Josh shares his story about founding ReProduce 81, and shares details about the progress the state of Washington is making on school food recovery.