Two years in the making, Second Harvest Inland Northwest recently unveiled an initiative aimed at sourcing way more food, while ensuring absolutely none of it goes to waste. The name of the program underscores its goal: Zilch, as in zero waste. The two-part program involves getting more food into the…
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Estimates of how much food is wasted annually in America vary widely, but 100 billion pounds is a nice round number that sums up the situation pretty well. Feeding America would like to see more of that 100 billion pounds go toward addressing food insecurity. To that end, it just…
Last fall, The Farmlink Project pulled off its largest food recovery by a factor of ten when it rescued 13.5 million pounds of apples from about a dozen farms in West Virginia that otherwise would have gone to waste. The recovery, considered by many to be the largest in U.S.…
At Hatch for Hunger, there’s no question whether the chicken or the egg came first. It was definitely the egg. The Indiana-based nonprofit, founded in 2015, is committed to becoming the nation’s most reliable source of animal protein to America’s food banks. In late 2023, it announced the milestone of…
There’s no doubt most food banks are spending more money to purchase food these days, though there are a handful outliers that spend virtually nothing on food. During Covid, almost all food banks began purchasing more food when donated goods were tough to come by, and government funding and donated…
A series of small changes has enabled Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County to whittle away waste in its operations, making it the first food bank in the world to be certified for its sustainability efforts. The food bank has received a TRUE certification for zero waste, signifying that…
In 2019, when Food Bank News first reported on Feeding America’s MealConnect, the app was being used by 22 food banks and had helped rescue 1.5 billion pounds of food over five years. Now, virtually all of Feeding America’s 200 food banks are using the app, and it helped rescue…
Food banks have plenty of experience accepting donated food that arrives in a jumble, or is close to expiring, or is not so healthy. Now it’s becoming easier to get highly desirable food that is convenient, nutritious, and even arrives at the warehouse in an organized manner. Technology firms specializing…
The idea of rescuing surplus produce from farms and bringing it to food banks is not a new one, but it usually happens on a local level. The Farmlink Project is taking the practice national. Started in 2020 by a group of college students, Farmlink has activated a nationwide network…