Get Food Smart TN Quarterly NEwsletterWinter 2021 Edition
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Hi friends,
I can't believe there are just a week left in 2021! Where did the time go? Like many organizations looking forward to a fresh start in 2022, we are ramping up for our inaugural Food Waste Awareness Week, which will be April 4-9, 2022! This will be a week full of daily virtual engagement and educational opportunities, ending with several in-person events across the state. These events will feature food waste awareness educational activities such as local breweries using discarded bread for a custom brew, local chefs hosting live food waste cooking demos, food drive donations at each event location, plus local resources and organizations engaged in addressing food waste.
See below for more information about how to get involved!
Thanks,
Ashley Cabrera
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The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Office of Policy and Sustainable Practice is hosting Tennessee’s first Food Waste Awareness Week, April 4-9, 2022.
We are looking for partners to help us promote the awareness week through social media and news outlets. We will provide you with a toolkit with communication templates, sample social media posts, food memes, and more!
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The EPA released a new report, "From Farm to Kitchen: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. Food Waste (Part 1)". This report reveals the climate and environmental impacts of producing, processing, distributing, and retailing food that is ultimately wasted, and projects the environmental benefits of meeting the U.S. goal to prevent 50 percent of food waste by 2030.
Look out for Part 2 of the report, which will be released in Spring 2022.
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Participant Spotlight
Nourish Knoxville
What started as Market Square Farmers’ Market in 2004, expanded into the non-profit, Nourish Knoxville, which was created to take on projects in the Knoxville food shed that expand local food efforts. Nourish Knoxville was officially incorporated in 2013 after Market Director Charlotte Tolley convened a group of local-food loving people to become the first board of directors. From there they published the first East Tennessee Local Food Guide, opened their first Winter Farmers’ Market, and to this day works to cultivate healthy communities by supporting relationships between local farmers, producers, and the public.
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Partner Spotlight
Chattanooga Food Center
A vibrant, well-nourished Chattanooga. That is the vision behind Chattanooga Food Center. How do they hope to do that? By increasing access to locally grown foods, providing nutrition education, and inspiring engagement in regional agriculture. The need in the community and the passion behind executive director and founder Holly Martin is what brought this organization to life. “The real need was to bring the entire community back to understanding their connections to food,” says Martin. And despite the pandemic, Holly and her board opened Chattanooga Food Center in late 2019 in the historic St. Andrews Center.
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2022 Pick TN Conference
February 17-19, 2022
This conference provides educational programming and networking in a collaborative environment which fosters growth to sustain agriculture.
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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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Farm to School Grant Program
These grants support planning, developing, and implementing farm to school programs.
Deadline: January 10,2022
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Research to Reduce Consumer Food Waste in the United States
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science toAchieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research todevelop, apply, and test innovative and creative community-engaged approachesto reduce household food waste in the United States.
Deadline: February 9,2022
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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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Glazed Ham Loaf with Mustard
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When preparing for a large gathering, plan ahead to prevent from cooking too much food. Use the Guest-imator from Save The Food to help you decide how much food to buy and prepare.
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