Eat Your Heartland Out - Food Waste Reduction Across the Midwest

Food Waste Reduction Across the Midwest

05/05/23 • 42 min

Today's show is all about food waste reduction efforts across the Midwest.

Our first guest, Jennifer Trent, is the Food, Beverage, and Organics Program Manager at the Iowa Waste Reduction Center, and has been involved in the field of food waste and sustainability practices for over a decade. Then we speak with Tony Staubach, the food Waste Diversion Coordinator at the Hamilton County Solid Waste District in Ohio. We hear how they conduct the community outreach necessary for a successful food waste program, how the policy landscape is changing around food waste, and much more.

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Today's show is all about food waste reduction efforts across the Midwest.

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BIPOC Leaders in Midwestern Agriculture

Meet Malcom Evans and Yusuf Bin-Rella, two inspiring guests whose life’s work is focused on using the power of agriculture and food for positive transformation. They also happen to capture the growing presence of BIPOC leaders in the Midwestern ag space. Malcom Evans, Director of Farming at Urban Growers Collective in Chicago, shares how being exposed to farming as a kid changed his life’s path and how he is using his passion for agriculture to impact Chicago’s inner city communities today. Then, we travel from Illinois to Wisconsin where chef and co founder of Trade Roots Farms, Yusuf Bin-Rella is changing the food and farming landscape. Yusuf ‘s mission is to engage BIPOC communities in all that he does, from cooking to gardening.

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This episode of Eat Your Heartland Out spotlights chief stewards who are upping the food game aboard Great Lakes freighters. We meet two chefs who combine culinary creativity with a personal touch to create tasty menus for hard working freighter crews.

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Learn more about this story by reading the GLN article here. Watch the companion GLN TV segment here.

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