The food waste issue is huge, and one way to reduce it is to buy your food from the growers directly, through farmer's markets, roadside farm stalls, and delivery through Community Supported Agriculture. Spray free or certified organic, and buy from your local cooperative food market for other items. The coop I belonged to in Portland allowed volunteers access to their out of date food kept in the coolers: for every 2 hours you worked, you could visit the produce or dairy cooler and take what you needed. Perfect.
On Jul 31, 2015 Diane Emerson wrote:
The food waste issue is huge, and one way to reduce it is to buy your food from the growers directly, through farmer's markets, roadside farm stalls, and delivery through Community Supported Agriculture. Spray free or certified organic, and buy from your local cooperative food market for other items. The coop I belonged to in Portland allowed volunteers access to their out of date food kept in the coolers: for every 2 hours you worked, you could visit the produce or dairy cooler and take what you needed. Perfect.