Totally Wasted: Reassessing Your Waste Stream

In a wasteful, fast paced, quick service culture, what can we all do to divert food and materials from the waste stream that end up in a landfill? It all starts in the kitchen and ends in community efforts to repurpose food. Hear from an expert chef, a social entrepreneur, a regenerative farmer, and waste stream experts as we explore ways to limit food waste while making a difference in our community and for the environment.

Moderator

Julia Simon
Chef/Owner – Nourish

Chef Julia fell in love with food while living and studying art in New York City. Constantly broke as an art student, she often innovated creative vegan dishes in her tiny apartment’s kitchen after being inspired by the vibrant culinary scene in the city. When she and partner Erik moved to Charlotte in 2009, she found work quickly as a vegan/vegetarian/farm to table-focused personal chef. Flash forward to 2012, she met then-business partner Laura Neff, who put a fulfillment system to Chef Julia’s culinary creations – and Nourish was born. In 2014,

Nourish now ships over 1000 servings of vegan, organic, healthy fare a week to homes and offices all over the county and southeast United States, is heavily involved in the regional vegan community, and sponsors Charlotte Vegfest, of which Chef Julia is board president.

Panelists:
Walker Spruill / The Green Assistant
Kristopher Steele / Crown Town Compost
Eric Mathis / Miracle Grounds Network
Shawn Jadrnicek / Wild Hope Farm
James Yoder / Not Just Coffee
Kim Aprill / Feeding Charlotte