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K-12 Food Rescue: A Food Waste Solution Podcast

John Williamson

Follow the journey of students and adult leaders across the country to lead the #FoodIsNotTrash movement in their school districts as they seek food waste solutions.

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00:21:22

Colorado State Representative and School Food Waste...

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2025/09/25

Lisa Feret is a state representative in Colorado. She recently co-sponsored HB25-1059, a bill that encouraged schools to participate in school food waste solutions, and strengthened legal protections for food donations in Colorado.

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00:20:23

Food Finders Rescues 2 Million Pounds of School Food...

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2025/09/12

Diana Lara is the Executive Director of Food Finders, a Food Rescue organization in California . Food Finders has rescued 2 million pounds of school food from 2020-2025 from 120 schools in Southern California. Food Finders has rescued food from schools since at least 2016, when they were rescuing food from 30 schools at that time. Enjoy hearing about their decade long journey rescuing school food in episode 159 of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast.

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00:27:17

Upland California School Food Waste Solution Leader...

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2025/09/05

Cassidy Boardman is the Nutrition Service Director and Upland Unified School District in California. Through food waste audits in their 14 schools, the district discovered what was being wasted, and implemented changes that have led to a tremendous reduction in food waste. Listen to episode 157 of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast to hear more of the story!

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00:19:58

Utah Representative Tyler Clancy: School Food Waste...

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2025/09/04

Representative Tyler Clancy in Utah spent 3 years working on HB100, a bill that aimed to reduce food waste in schools, increase seat time for students at lunch, and lower the cost for students participating in the National School Lunch Program. Listen to his journey in episode 158 of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast.

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00:26:45

K-12 Food Rescue Student Leader Peter Kellogg in...

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2025/08/28

Listen to Peter Kellogg’s volunteer journey supporting the food share table initiative at David Fairchild Elementary. Peter is a senior at the University of Miamistudying Ecosystem Science Policy, and has volunteered at David Fairchild Elementary, a school that has been involved with implementing share tables in partnership with the Miami Dade County Council PTA and Florida Green Schools.https://greenu.miami.edu/eco-agency/index.html

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00:33:17

K-12 Food Rescue Student Leaders Sabrina and...

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2025/06/24

Sabrina and Valentina Navarra share their Food Rescue journey from Elementary to High School.

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00:25:32

Virginia School Food Waste National Student Leader...

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2025/06/19

High School Senior Elliot Pomper shares his journey establishing "Fruitful", an initiative focused on recovering perfectly good fruit from the trays of students that they choose not to eat for any reason and donating it to a local food pantry.

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00:28:58

Megan Holler K-12 Food Rescue Food Waste Solution...

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2025/06/19

Toward Zero Waste's Megan Holler shares her journey of bringing share tables to Wake County Public Schools in North Carolina.https://towardzerowaste.org/share-program/https://www.wral.com/news/education/more-wake-schools-turning-wasted-food-into-snacks-for-students-june-2025/

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00:18:13

Pittsfield HS Peace Jam Club in MA School Food Waste...

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2025/06/16

Listen to the Peace Jam Club at Pittsfield HS in Massachusetts share their school food waste solutions in partnership with Mary Summers' Tommy's Composting.

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00:16:10

Beaverton Oregon K-12 Food Rescue Leaders Lauren...

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2025/06/04

Listen to the inspiring story of the Green Team at McKay Elementary in Beaverton Oregon, featuring Lauren Kelly, parent leader of the Green Team, and Emma Byrd, a 10 year old student member of the Green Team at McKay Elementary.

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00:24:48

Bakersfield California School Food Waste Solution...

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2025/05/06

In our 150th Episode, Josh Rogers, Director of Nutrition Services in Greenfield Union School District in California, shares how a partnership with Waste Hunger Not Food has led to over 800,000 pounds of food being rescued since 2018.

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00:24:04

Ohio K-12 Food Rescue & School Food Waste Solution...

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2025/05/02

In this episode, Camille Licate, founder of Kids for Positive Change, shares her exciting journey from a working commercial actor in Los Angeles California to founding Kids for Positive Change in Ohio. Camille has helped establish food share tables in Ashtabula Area City Schools, and actively promotes student leadership in running the food share tables.

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00:12:29

Wisconsin K-12 Food Rescue Food Waste Solution...

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2025/04/24

This episode features Carin Keyes, the partnership coordinator at Manz Elementary in Eau Claire Area School District in Wisconsin, as well as Manz Elementary students Emmett Johnson and Bryant Sorenson. All three have helped set up “no thank you” tables and composting initiatives at Manz Elementary.

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00:29:10

Texas School Food Waste and K-12 Food Rescue Leader...

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2025/04/23

In this episode 147, Seth Williams, the Environmental Programs Facilitator for the Frisco IndependentSchool District in Texas, shares the journey of the Frisco ISD to reduce school food waste in their district.

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00:14:13

Michigan K-12 Food Rescue School Food Waste Solution...

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2025/04/21

In this episode, Lexi Gross, a senior at Otsego High School in Michigan and Julie Guthrie, the Otsego High School food service director, share their journey establishing share tablesat Otsego High School.

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00:18:04

Minnesota K-12 Food Rescue School Food Waste Solution...

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2025/04/21

In this episode, Wendy Peterson, South Washington County Schools Director of Student Nutrition in Minnesota, shares about the partnership between Washington County Schools and Basic Needs, a local not for profit feeding children and families in need in the community. Working together, they rescue nutritious school food that is unopened and unwanted from the trays of students that they choose not to eat on a given day. The program feeds families instead of landfills!

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00:18:22

Fairfield CT School Food Waste Solution Leader Haley...

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2025/04/09

In this episode, Haley Schulman shares her journey about learning about food waste in her time in the hotel industry, to becoming a co-site director for Fairfield Food Rescue US, where she helps manage 34 partnerships with individual schools to rescue their surplus food.

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00:22:11

Princeton New Jersey Student Food Waste Solution...

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2025/04/09

In this episode, Princeton HS students Alexandra Sandt andSara Shahab Diaz share their journey to rescue school food waste from New Jersey landfills and compost it instead.

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00:22:39

New Richmond Wisconsin School K-12 Food Rescue Leader...

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2025/04/09

In this episode, current supervisor of school nutrition in TheNew Richmond School District in Wisconsin, and former president of the Wisconsin School Nutrition Association, Bobbie Guyette, shares her story of learning about food waste in Minnesota at the very beginning of her career, to implementing share tables and school food waste solutions in New Richmond. “We want healthy kids, not healthy trashcans” is one of her favorite quotes. To learn more about share tables in New Richmond schools,

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00:33:57

Princeton NJ School Food Waste Solution Leaders Meg...

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2025/04/01

In Episode 140, Meg Lembo, Director of Outreach of Share My Meals in Princeton NJ, and Shannon Barlow, Food Systems Literacy Coordinator at Princeton Public Schools, share about their partnership rescuing surplus meals in PrincetonPublic Schools. If you are interested in learning more about their partnership in New Jersey, contact Meg at meg@sharemymeals.org or Shannon at shannonbarlow@princetonk12.org

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