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Farmers Need to Eat Healthy Too

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017

All, Food access and affordability, Food insecurity, Food waste, Health, Social responsibility

GoodFarms has been working with the County of Monterey, California to provide our team members and their families with healthier meals. The county’s food bank has a program where they work with agricultural companies to deliver healthy food at convenient times for…

We Throw Away 40% of Our Food

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017

All, Food access and affordability, Food insecurity, Food waste, Sustainability

We plant it, nurture it, harvest it, ship it, and buy it; then we throw it away. Research from Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) shows that Americans throw away $218 billion worth of food every year that we could otherwise eat. This…

Take Your Food Waste and Shove It

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017

All, Food access and affordability, Food insecurity, Food waste, Social responsibility

We should never use the term food waste again. Doug Rauch, the former president of Trader Joes and the founder of Daily Table, says that nobody wants a second helping of food waste, but nobody is for wasting food. So take the…