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Havens Harvest urges regional food-recovery hubs to cut waste, feed families
Summary
A guest presentation at the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments (NVCOG) meeting urged municipalities to treat edible food recovery as infrastructure rather than charity and requested local support for hubs, vehicles and funding.
Laurie Martin, guest speaker for Havens Harvest, told the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments on Oct. 24 that municipalities should treat edible food recovery as public infrastructure rather than charity.
Martin said Havens Harvest and partners recover and redistribute donated food to nonprofits and community groups across the region and asked regional officials to consider funding food-recovery hubs, vehicles and related staffing. “I want to start by reframing how we think about excess food. And in the past, it has been considered charity work, but in fact, it's around public infrastructure,” Martin said.
Why it matters: Martin and a co-presenter described both social and environmental benefits of expanded food…
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