Goals  To create a hub for all of our information and resources for Maine’s food system. Methodology  Food Rescue MAINE’s website was created in the Spring of 2021. In its beginning stages, the website was simply a page explaining the basics of food recycling and was linked to a QR code in preparation for our […]

Goals To educate and engage Maine communities in the common goal of improving their community food systems. To prevent, recover, and recycle food waste. Methodology  In order to best create educational materials for a community, we must first understand what their goals are. To do this, a meeting is set up to discuss their goals […]

Food Rescue MAINE has collaborated with teachers across Maine both to create and compile educational material for young students. We currently have material available for preschool and ages k-5. We will soon add the high school food system curriculum to our website as well. Goals To create a fun and engaging elementary curriculum vetted by […]

Goals  To reduce school food waste, volume, and cost. To improve nutrition intake. Methodology  Worked with the Maine Department of Education nutrition director and faculty team to identify the most effective food waste and nutrition interventions. Researched best practices for elementary school food waste reduction. Recruited and selected four (4) participating Maine elementary schools for […]

Goals To connect surplus food that is available with local people that need it. Methodology  University of New England (UNE) Dining, powered by Parkhurst, donated their surplus food. Through volunteers from UNE’s Hunger Committee, this surplus food was then delivered to the Bon Appetit Community Meal Program. Throughout this process, the volunteers used a software […]

Goals  To reduce the waste of good, edible food in Maine communities. To Feed more Mainers in support of Ending Hunger in Maine by 2030. To test a potential statewide Maine Food Rescue system (no wasted food) to locally connect all “available food” (Donors) with all “food needs” (Feeding Sites). Strategy  To dramatically grow the […]

Project Goals To determine what foods were creating the most kitchen and plate waste in their facility. To reduce the money they were spending both on purchasing food and disposing of food that is not eaten, by developing a better knowledge of their waste. To develop strategies in the kitchen and with the residents in […]

After finishing our pilot with the reentry facility in Windham, we patterned with the DOC again to track food waste at the Maine State Prison and Bolduc Correctional Facility. Instead of one facility with 50 residents, we jumped to two tracking and measuring food waste for two facilities with a total of around 830 residents. […]

We partnered with the Maine Department of Corrections to conduct a food waste tracking and measuring study at the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston, Maine. This study completed out 2022/23 pilot with the four major MDOC facilities (including Maine State Prison, Bolduc, and the Women’s Reentry Center).   The Mountain View food waste study […]

The Maine Home Food Waste Challenge was a four-week online household food waste reduction “competition” which launched on January 9th, 2023. Maine residents and communities statewide were asked to track, measure, and reduce their weekly food waste in order to save money and help prevent climate change. Using social media, newspapers, TV, and community outreach, […]