Get Food Smart TN Quarterly NEwsletterFall 2021 Edition
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Hi friends,
Today is officially the first day of fall! Before you know it, the holidays will be here, which among other things can bring a lot of food waste. There are lots of things that you can do to reduce this waste and make the most of the food you buy.
I am excited to bring you our fall newsletter which highlights two of the great organizations in our state working to address food waste and also shares some additional updates. Make sure to keep your eyes open for some amazing news coming in the months to come!
Thanks,
Ashley Cabrera
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With a mission to help meet student needs for food assistance, TDEC’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative offered a mini grant opportunity for higher education institutions in the spring of 2021. The purpose of the funding is to combat both student food insecurity and food waste by assisting schools with establishing food pantries. To be eligible for the grant, each applicant had to demonstrate an on-campus need for a pantry as well as how the food pantry will divert food from the waste stream by offering food from rescued food sources.
The awardees of the 2021 Campus Food Pantry Grant are two Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) institutions, TCAT Elizabethton and TCAT Jacksboro. Both institutions are working towards making their campus food pantries available to their students this Fall.
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In August, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released a report that comprises a gap analysis and detailed inventory of food waste related policies in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Through the report, NRDC hopes to equip Food Matters city partners with a comprehensive overview of their state's policy landscape and how it helps and/or hinders their food waste efforts.
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Participant Spotlight
The Society of St. Andrew
The Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) brings people together to harvest and share healthy food, reduce food waste, and build caring communities by offering nourishing food to hungry neighbors. SoSA gleans excess and unmarketable produce in farm fields and then donates that produce to organizations that feed hungry people.
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Partner Spotlight
green|spaces
Since 2007, green|spaces has been working to promote sustainability in Chattanooga and exists as a resource to the community. Green|spaces offers a number of programs, like their popular monthly lunch and learns and Empower Chattanooga, which work to increase education and awareness and promote best practices for living, working, and building green to improve Chattanooga’s environment, and economy, and social equity.
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ReFED Lunch n' Learn COVID-19 and Food Rescue
October 6, 2021 12pm CST
Learn from organizations in the Fund cohort about how they expanded and scaled their services to fight food waste and hunger, how their audacity has led to new initiatives and innovations, and how food rescue may continue to evolve in the future.
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May 10-12, 2022
Minneapolis, MN
Presented by ReFED, the Food Waste Solutions Summit is the premier food waste event of the year, bringing together food businesses, funders, solution providers, innovators, policymakers, nonprofits, and more to drive the adoption of solutions to reach our collective goal of a 50% reduction in food waste by 2030.
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Row by Row
To better support the agricultural community, SoSA is partnering with the state of Tennessee to learn how much surplus produce is in fields after harvest.
Click below for more information and to get involved.
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EPA Region 4 Materials Management Grants
This goal of this grant is to improve community resilience and sustainability through sustainable materials management. For grant details and eligibility, click on the link below.
Deadline: October 25, 2021
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Create an "Eat First Box" and fill the box with items that need to be eaten first or soon to keep them from going bad.
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