Despite the old adage, waste not want not, the average American family wastes over 250 pounds of food each year. The food waste stream includes the bagged salad that’s moldering in your crisper bin, but also produce that is rotting in fields because of supply issues.

In recognition of International Compost Awareness Week and as an extension of last year’s popular Food Cycle series, The Delaware Center for Horticulture is bringing back Jonathan Bloom by popular demand. Jonathan is a journalist, consultant and thought leader on the topic of food waste. Jonathan wrote the book American Wasteland and created the web site Wasted Food. He has spoken on food waste from New York to New Zealand and has consulted with the United Nations FAO, Harvard Law School, NRDC, General Mills, and Minneapolis Public Schools. Most recently, he helped create Food Matters, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s free educational resource. A Boston native, Jonathan now lives Durham, NC, with his wife, two sons and many, many containers for leftovers.

Link to Register: https://thedch.org/events/?eid=13844

For more information contact DCH Education Manager, Nora Melley at nmelley@thedch.org.