Comments on: Food Waste: Why Is So Much Food Wasted, part 3 (video)

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Cooking Up A Story: Monastery Mustard | SustainableTraditions.com — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:13:42 +0000

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By: Eleanor Hoh (WokStar)

Eleanor Hoh (WokStar) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:32:57 +0000

Great to see you covering this topic. I grew up in Asia and my parents went through a war, so we were brought up NEVER to waste food. When I prep veggies for a class, I even use the ends for my salad or soups. I cannot bear to see food wasted, it’s a sin. I know people in Key West who live solely from food thrown out at a major supermarket! I am more vigilant about not buying too much, if veggies get a little wilty, I use them in soups, stews. I used to compost EVERYTHING and our garden had the best ‘feed’, grew huge and quickly.

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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:58:57 +0000

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By: On CBS and Carrots | Cooking Up a Story

On CBS and Carrots | Cooking Up a Story — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:17:33 +0000

[...] November 18, 2010 Mainstream media made a visit to Jonathan Bloom’s home recently to talk to him about America’s habits of wasting food. Bloom’s recently published book, American Wasteland, focuses on this subject – a subject that will certainly be talked about even more after seeing the CBS video. It was amazing to see how much food was wasted from this “normal American family”…unused bread, milk and eggs past their expiration date, half of a pasture-fed cow, and more. There are many things everyone could do to waste less food. Bloom lists out 5 easy suggestions in this video. [...]

By: Bruce F

Bruce F — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:53:20 +0000

First, let me say thank you for the great content. I love the interviews!

I like to pass on an elegant solution that my friend Nance Klehm is working on.

The food waste from a large homeless shelter in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood is vermicomposted by the residents as part of the shelter’s educational mission. The resulting earthworm castings are used to propagate plants for use in and around the building. They do this in two large greenhouses.

The greenhouses grow soil, food and people! Each greenhouse is 2,500’sq. The Greenhouses opened Oct. 15, 2007. Two to four program individuals work in the greenhouses. They are trained in seed and plant propagation, insect management, vermicomposting, pruning and basic horticultural skills.
We grow soil through VERMICOMPOSTING which means ‘composting with worms’.
There are currently approximately 500,000 – Eisenia fetida (Red Wrigglers) worms in 30 boxes. (We started with 100,000 worms.)
They live in bedding made up from shredded newspapers gathered from the over night guests and mixed with used coffee grounds.
The cafeteria on average turns out 500lbs of food a week. We match the cafeteria waste with what the worms can eat (approx. 300-500 lbs/week). The worm castings are used to grow ornamental plants for the building and vegetables that are used in the cafeteria.
The Greenhouses of Hope close the loop!: Food – Waste – Soil – Food.

Our small group of Rooftop growers helped them build Sub-Irrigated Planters a couple of weeks ago.

A great program that should be used as a model in other institutions.

Close the loop!

By: » How we can stop wasting so much food Bonnie’s Sustainable Blog: All about sustainable farming

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:20:23 +0000

[...] Basic blogservations Jonathan Bloom, author of the Wasted Food blog, offers advice on the website Cooking Up a Story about how we can stop wasting so much food. For those of you particularly interested in the Urban [...]