United States
Video: food bank to grow hundreds of fish yearly to feed the hungry
In Pennsylvania, a local food bank is taking several pallet tanks, and converting them into a place to grow 480 fish a year and more than 2,800 pounds of greens to give to people in need. The waste from the fish will be used as fertilizer to help the greens grow. This will all take place in four lar...
Some food stamp recipients may soon lose access to farmers market benefits
Across the US, recipients of USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - sometimes referred to as food stamps - are able to get more by shopping at farmers markets, where the value of their benefits is matched or supplemented by other funds. But a technical issue with the payment proce...
Struggling Farmers Turn Excess Milk Into Cheese And Yogurt For The Hungry
Philabundance, a Pennsylvania nonprofit that turns food waste into donations is working with dairy farmers to turn excess milk into cheese and yogurt for the hungry. ...
Public colleges confront student hunger, housing needs over summer
In Massachusetts, local public colleges and universities are ramping up efforts to provide safety net programs to students over the summer break. This year, all four public colleges in Central Massachusetts have launched or plan to launch new on-campus food pantries as a stopgap measure to help stud...
Podcast: Feeding America: Solve Hunger by Reducing Food Waste
Earth911.com interviews Feeding America's Liz Baldridge, director of Sustainability and Food Waste Initiatives, and Zuani Villareal, director of communication at Feeding America, to discuss food waste....
Fighting summer hunger block by block, lunch by lunch
Just 40% of the children who receive school lunches are reached in the summer: the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger measured lunch consumption during October and July 2017. In Philadelphia public and charter schools, around 130,000 free lunches were served per day in October; in July, 5...
Local youth fights world hunger
In Michigan, Addy Battel, 15, of Cass City, started "Meating the Need for our Village Hunger" four years ago when her rural town became a food desert. She works with friends and neighbors "to provide high quality protein to low-income members of our community and the communities surrounding us, whil...
Denton Food Pantry Helps Stave Off Hunger for College Students
Even though school is out for the summer, a Denton food pantry, which helps hungry college students, is busy. Those who run the Shiloh Food Pantry on the University of North Texas campus say they’re filling what they see is a growing need....
Seniors’ food security feeds on mobility
In the United States, lack of access to transportation contributes to hunger. In Pennsylvania, the Perry County Food Bank offers food boxes and other programs for older residents....
Hungry Harvest Continues to Fight Food Waste, Hunger by Expanding into New Markets
Evan Lutz, founder and CEO of Baltimore-based Hungry Harvest, believes socially conscious business has the power to end food waste and have a real impact on the environment, community and economy. Through Hungry Harvest, a farm to doorstep produce delivery service on a mission to eliminate food wa...
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