City of New Haven Announces Food Reclamation, Redistribution Summit

From the City of New Haven:

The City of New Haven and its Community Services Administration (CSA) will host on Monday, June 27 a Food Reclamation and Redistribution Summit with a goal of connecting farmers, grocers, restaurants and distributors to food service agencies.

Monday’s summit is part of an ongoing, comprehensive CSA strategy to address food and nutrition issues citywide. It will focus on the current state of food reclamation in New Haven, potential barriers and challenges to change as well as suggestions for a better system using surplus food to reduce hunger.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Eric Handler, co-founder of the Waste Not Orange County Coalition, which is a public/private partnership created to reduce hunger and solid waste by facilitating the donation of wholesome surplus food.

Dr. Handler also helped develop a mobile app that can be used to connect food pantries that collect food for the hungry with those restaurants, caterers, private parties and other outlets that have excess food they don’t want to go to waste.

Monday’s Food Reclamation and Redistribution Summit will be held in the Curran Community Center, Room N100, at Gateway Community College, located at 20 Church St., from 2-5 p.m.

Dr. Handler’s address is scheduled for 2 p.m. A press availability with Dr. Handler is scheduled for 3 p.m. Food policy and social services reporters are encouraged to cover this potentially groundbreaking event.

Further information is available through the city website.

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