Food Recovery Network at Maryville College

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Food Recovery Network at Maryville College

Fighting Scots - fighting hunger! The Maryville College chapter of the FRN is dedicated to reducing waste and feeding people in Blount County.

Food Recovery is a national Nonprofit that aims to reduce food waste on college campuses by getting young people involved in the process of donating dining hall food to those in need. Because of this food recovery aims to fight food deserts by giving those who do not have access to healthy food themselves. Maryville College aims to reduce food waste while giving back to to the community by donatin

g all leftover, usable food to local nonprofits. The Maryville College chapter of the Food Recovery Network was founded in the summer of 2015 by Brandon Denny upon returning from the national Bonner Foundation conference where a fellow Bonner shared his own experiences founding a chapter at their college. This, along with a personal connection to hunger in America, inspired Brandon to start his own chapter at Maryville. Since then the chapter has recovered over ten thousand pounds of usable food for local nonprofits to distribute to clients in need and has held multiple outreach events on campus to raise awareness of food waste and hunger in America!

03/05/2020

Food Recovery Maryville College Chapter is excited to announce that we will be hosting the nationwide Move Out for Hunger event during finals week.

As students move out of the dorms for the summer, there is forgotten food discovered in drawers and in the backs of cabinets. Instead of throwing it away, we encourage you to donate it to Food Recovery, as all the food will be donated to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for summer use.

More details will be coming your way as we get closer to the end of the semester.

To learn more, visit: https://www.foodrecoverynetwork.org/move-out-for-hunger

04/09/2018

Not just good for food storage but toy storage as well! Found a surprise in one of our bins when picking them up from Family Promise today.

08/20/2017

First haul of the season with 51.2 lbs! Happy to be back on the food waste fight!!

06/26/2017

We're on the path to a better and less wasteful future!

11/18/2016

Due to the amount of smoke outside because of the fires, the reflection piece of Hunger and Homelessness week that was originally scheduled for today at 12 outside Person's Hall has been CANCELLED. Thanks for an amazing week guys!

11/16/2016

Don't forget about the week long food drive MC students! Donation bins are in each residents hall! Commuters as well as Beeson Residents and Court Street residents bin is in the lounge next to Issac's.

10/25/2016

Food Recovery meeting today at 4 in the CCM! We'll be discussing new projects, hunger and homelessness week, and possible new recovery partners! Hope to see you all there!

09/27/2016

Fighting food waste starts with the consumer. Speak up and voice your concerns about food waste to your grocery stores and political representatives today!

08/30/2016

Food Recovery got started back up yesterday recovering 110.8 lbs for Family Promise! We are happy to be back on campus fighting food waste!

05/20/2016

Got lucky with this three headed monster of a strawberry! Recovering the unique food this summer!

05/15/2016

Congrats to our outgoing FRN president, B Denny! We are incredibly grateful for all that you've done to bring Food Recovery to Maryville. You have made such a huge impact on the community your four years here! We will miss! Drop that mic as you say goodbye to MC!

05/12/2016

Can you can it? That's question that Knoxville resident Jessica Comer answered at tonight's Pecha Kucha at the Bijou Theatre. Fighting food waste can be as easy saving leftover home grown produce and making it last all winter! We appreciate the canners in our lives!

Address

502 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy
Maryville, TN
37804

Website

http://www.foodrecoverynetwork.org/

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