Listen to the inspiring story of Dahlia, Scarlett, and Sonia Basmadjian, the founders of 3 sisters Food Rescue inNew York in Episode 176 of The K-12 Food Rescue Podcast.

Utah State Representative Tiara Auxier shares her experience learning about the effect of unrealistic seat times during school lunches and her experience trying to implement changes in Utah schools related to the implementation of the national school lunch program. Representative Auxier's goal is to improve student nutrition and education via the increased consumption of the healthy food students are provided each day through a common sense review of data that reveals the best practices that lead to maximum benefits for students participating in the national school lunch program.

Students at Marion Cross School in Vermont conducted interviews related to the EPA’s  Food Recovery Hierarchy, which from most preferrable to least preferable includes Source Reduction, feeding hungry people, feeding animals, industrial uses, composting, and landfills.   These K-12 Food Rescue student leaders interviewed Kelsey Head with Cedar Circle Farms regarding Source Reduction, Cherry Sullivan with Willing Hands regarding feeding people, Marc Aquilla regarding  Feeding Animals, Cat Buxton with The Upper Valley Super Compost Project regarding composting, and Andy Scherer with the Greater Upper Valley Solid Management Waste District  regarding food waste sent to landfills. 

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Kathy Nguyen is the Green Star Schools Program Manager of Eco-Cycle in Boulder, Colorado. Listen to her journey providing school food waste solutions in Episode 173 of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast.

Sara Freeland is the nutrition service site manager at Sheridan High School in Sheridan Indiana. Sheridan nutrition services is involved in reducing school food waste with multiple strategies, including a refrigerator that can be accessed by students who are hungry during the day.

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Rogue Bailey started noticing the high amount of food waste at Bioscience High School, and she conducted a food waste audit with support from the staff and students at the HS, which showed 17,000 pounds of food could be prevented from entering a landfill with a few changes. Listen to her story in Episode 171 of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast.

Audrey Pak is a senior at Stargate HS in Colorado. Listen to her inspiring story about bringing share tables and composting initiatives to her high school in episode 170 of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast!

Lucie Leblois is the co-founder of The DC Food Project, a Washington DC based not for profit facilitating both share tables and in house food pantries in Washington DC schools.

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Anne Rosenthal, is the Farm to School Specialist in the FoodServices Department at Baltimore City Public Schools in Baltimore Maryland.

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Kate Urbank is the site director of Food Rescue US in Washington DC.  Food Rescue US – DC has kept over 12 million pounds of healthy excess food out of landfills, redirecting it to the food insecure.  Food Rescue US - DC also works with both public and private schools to rescue food in DC schools.

Enjoy Episode 167 of the K-12 Food Rescue Podcast.