Fighting waste and feeding those in need during Covid-19

Brut America

As thousands of Americans go hungry, farmers are forced to throw away the produce they can't sell to shuttered restaurants. The Farm to Food Banks project bridges that gap.

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00:00For me, personally,

00:28this seems like a situation that we couldn't wait for somebody else to fix.

00:34People were hungry immediately. They needed food now.

00:38The food was perishing. It was there now.

00:42And we have to do what we can.

00:45We're all being asked right now to do more than we ever have before,

00:49and we have to come together to try to make things the best that we can.

00:58I relied on some people that I know in my network.

01:08And a good friend of mine owns a sewer transportation company.

01:12It's a trucking company based in Salt Lake City.

01:14And there were potatoes in Idaho, cranny farms in Idaho.

01:18So I called Mark and I said, if I find a place to take the potatoes,

01:22a place that needs it, can you help me move them?

01:25And without hesitation, he said yes.

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02:02We've had PPE donated by generous individuals to help our cause.

02:08Masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, et cetera.

02:12We've had students at Fordham Prep School in the Bronx come,

02:18use the donated funds that they had for their Build the Bronx Club,

02:22and rent U-Haul trucks so they can help with that part of the logistics.

02:27There are numerous, numerous candles that are being lit.

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02:50Lots of people are saying, oh, we could use this in Texas.

02:53We could do this here.

02:55You know, longer term, what we would like to do is open source.

02:59What we're doing.

03:00And we hope people copy this.

03:03We hope people take initiative.

03:05And there are going to be people out there with even better ideas,

03:08better connections to make, and for the benefit of all of us.

03:14That would be amazing if people saw us,

03:16and they decided to do something in their own community,

03:19because the need is so great everywhere.

03:21This is the time to do whatever you can.

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