K-12 Food Rescue: A Food Waste Solution Podcast

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 to solve food waste at Kingstree HS.

Allison Finzel, Brandy Bennett, and Larry Agee share their K-12 Food Rescue and school food waste solution journey.

Hear the inspiring story of how Valpo Community schools pivoted from Share Tables to Giving Tables during the pandemic and helped solve the school food waste solution in their school district.

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 food waste solution programs during Covid 19.

Listen to Robin Young of "Here and Now" interview Food Rescue founder and food waste solution leader, 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 food waste solution program in their school, led by their teacher Christy Frazier.

Hear Vitki’s inspiring effort to end the practice of food waste in her Texas school district.

Hear the inspiring food waste solution 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, solving the food waste problem in her school!

Listen to the food waste solution 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 food waste solution 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 food waste solution 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 feedi...

Learn about Delayne’s K-12 Food Rescue food waste solution 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 food waste solution journey as a leader with students with special needs in Westfield Indiana at Food Rescue’s 10 year anniversary celebration.

Listen to the food waste solution 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 plans to continue the program once they reach Noblesville HS, and how it has spread throughout their school district.

Karen Khor shares her food waste solution 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 #no...

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 food waste solution 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 food waste solution 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 food waste solution journey to promote K-12 Food Rescue throughout Connecticut and lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement.