After the Harvest is celebrating nine years, and taking an opportunity to reflect on the incredible progress we’ve made together along the way.
Category: Reducing Food Waste
After the Harvest is celebrating nine years, and taking an opportunity to reflect on the incredible progress we’ve made together along the way.
If you’d like to help with food rescue operations, you can volunteer to participate in gleaning. This involves going out to farms, orchards, and other sites where fresh food is grown and harvesting it to be distributed to those in need. This helps to ensure that food that would otherwise go to waste is put to good use.
Every year, Americans throw away more than enough nutritious food to feed hungry U.S. citizen. Nearly one hundred billion pounds is wasted annually, according to the USDA. As a matter of fact, more food reaches landfills and incinerators than any other single material in municipal solid waste. Food that could nourish our citizens ends up […]
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