Rooted in Community: Tackling Food Waste in Our Communities

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Gale, by the way, Gale Norris said it was Gale that said she had a 1973 Z-28 when she was 16 years old.

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fast William by the way has a suggestion for the name of our kickball team the guinea pig bunters

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William.

Did you hear us coming in at all?

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She's got a lot more

important things to talk about than...

Because then you don't come in with a preconceived notion of what you're getting into here.

Right, right, good.

She's a sister.

Burned their guinea pig alive on Christmas.

First of

all, that is not true.

It was my sister's guinea pig.

She was a teacher.

And she taught in Warsaw.

Because of Christmas she brought they had a guinea pig in their classrooms teach kids you know important didn't take care of it You know so she brought it home for Christmas and we had 10 kids in our family a lot of boxes a lot of Christmas

They're in her class before they all wrote little cards for for the little the little guinea pig It's like I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

We can't wait to see you

So we had these boxes it was at night because it Christmas lasted till like midnight and my dad said okay boys I had four brothers.

He goes clean up this room

Burn all this stuff in the fireplace.

It's gotta be cleaned up for tomorrow.

Okay, dad.

So we burned everything.

So the next morning we're having this big brunch.

And we had this big brunch and somebody said, where's Benji?

Look around, where's Benji?

So we're looking, going to living room, going downstairs, looking for that box.

And then somebody said, I think my dad did check the fireplace.

And that was...

Yeah.

Oh, no.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, Benji.

Yeah.

So yeah,

it was what's the

word?

Christmas sacrifice.

Yes.

It

was a sacrifice to the God.

It sure was.

Joan of Arc all over again.

OK,

hey.

Good morning.

You.

Good morning.

Introduce yourself and all the great things that you do.

Since

20th.

Yes.

Introduce yourself.

Selena Darrell, founder and executive director of Rooted and Inc.

Which is a great organization.

Your.

Mission.

Give me your mission statement like in one or two sentences and I won't talk about all

the stuff you're doing this week.

Yeah, absolutely.

So our mission is to build a community table that nourishes and uplifts.

And so, you know, by improving access to nutritious foods, we are using it as a tool to improve health and well-being.

And that is great.

And we were talking before you came on the air that there's no reason for people to not have nutritional food in our community.

This is true.

The food is everywhere.

It's just getting it from point A to point B. We talk about that all the time, because I

mean, it's some of these grocery stores, and it's getting close to closing.

And there's the deli with all this beautiful shrimp and tea bones and whatever, whatever, whatever.

It's like, what's going to happen to that in the next hour or so?

I've always wondered about that.

Please enlighten us a little bit more about what your quest is to make sure those things don't go to waste.

Yeah, so really rooted in is the only nonprofit in our community that is aggregating food from going to waste, basically from any source.

So we have a program called the Glean team and most people say.

Chef Celina, what is the glean team?

And I say, well, gleaning is a very old practice.

It basically means you're rescuing or recovering food from any source where it would go to waste.

And so we've been identifying many sources in our community where food is going to waste.

We will come and pick it

up.

OK, I just want to jump in.

I mean, but when you say go to waste, you mean like landfill, right?

Correct, correct.

So like food that isn't being consumed, the highest percentage of food that goes to waste is in an individual's home followed by restaurants.

And so we are on a quest to prevent as much food from going to waste to feed our community.

I feel guilty about that, but it's like fruit and things, they spoil so fast.

I mean, there's such a short shelf life sometimes once you got something in your fridge, isn't it though?

Yeah, and I'm sure your solutions are not to buy so much.

Well, I mean, there's multiple solutions, but a lot of it comes down to education about best buy dates and use by dates on food.

There's no federal standards around that.

So there's a lot of confusion from the consumer standpoint around food labeling.

And there's bills at Congress right now.

They've been sitting in Congress for since 2018 to change that and make it clear for consumers.

What bill?

Why would that be an

argument?

What bill is out there that we could call our Congressperson?

What bill needs support that is in the red zone?

So basically too, in the state of California, they just passed a law last year so that you can only label foods best by or used by.

And then there's definitions as to what that means.

Because right now there is

none.

And people are confused by that.

There's articles on that all the time.

Absolutely.

And

what does that really, really mean?

Right.

Yeah, best used

by

us.

It's more a suggestion than a real

thing, isn't it?

That's right.

That's right.

And working in the food manufacturing industry, sometimes it's just an arbitrary date that's put on

something.

Yeah.

So Chef Selena, you are a chef.

I am a chef.

And I think something else is people get a lot of information on this has been passed down from

Grandma, to your mom, to you.

And that could be not accurate as well.

But a lot of stuff that, how long can you keep food in the refrigerator too?

You know what I mean?

Those sorts of that information isn't readily, it's very confusing.

So if you come to our website, we have a lot of resources around ways you can reduce food waste.

Actually, last week was stop food waste prevention week.

Um, and so we, you know, we definitely are on the front end of educating consumers before we even get food to the land.

Okay.

Two quick questions for you here then.

Number one, what does happen at 10 o'clock at night when a store closes or whatever, whatever.

Okay.

With the stuff that wasn't sold.

And number two, when you guys do

rescue that food, where does it go?

Yeah, so there are some other food pantries in our community who are actively working to rescue food from grocery stores, not all grocery stores.

But what we do is when we rescue food, whether it's fresh produce, yogurt, cheese, sandwiches,

We either redistribute that to other food pantries in our community, or we will use that to make individually packaged meals for our Cooking for the Community program.

And then we donate those out to the community refrigerators and to two other food pantries, including Trinity Lutheran and NWTC.

And those community refrigerators are picking up.

There's a couple of those in Green Bay, right?

Yeah.

So the one that's closest to our office is at Seymour Park.

Right, right.

And so we, on a regular basis, will bring all sorts of food over

there.

Right up off of Ashland, right?

Correct.

Right at Samaritan's Heart Ministries.

Right.

But even with that effort and with, you know, I know Manna picks up at some places and I see them once in a while, there's still food that needs

to find a home versus a landfill.

Touch on what we talked about before you came on about the, that the DNR, the state is concerned about land filling with good food or food period.

Surprise they can't even farmers don't buy it for hogs or

something?

Well, I mean, there are those mechanisms, like some of the food pantries will, if they can't distribute the food, they will bring it to the pig farmers.

But there is a lot of waste that goes on farm.

and they don't have a mechanism to get it to agencies like Rooted In.

or caterers, or vending machines, or Airbnb's.

Think about how much food goes to waste when you stay at an Airbnb, you load up your fridge,

and

then you're done, and you go on your merry way.

So there's all of these areas in our community that we are thinking about, okay, is there food there, and how can we rescue it to feed people in our

community?

What happens, I got a little alter, not an altercation, I got a little.

Discussion at a at a gas station one time now.

It's about to buy my Angus burger.

Okay, and Which are really good.

I mean, but but anyway, um and the kid was taking him off the thing I saw let me just grab one of those he goes.

Nope expired So what do you mean?

Because that's you know minute after six or whatever it was I said, I'm fine.

I'll just nope can't sell it I said, what do you do?

They were costing out and it's just like are you?

This isn't logical.

I'm willing to buy this

It's fine.

If I was here 60 seconds earlier, it would be fine.

And now it's going to be thrown into the garbage.

Right.

What

happens to that stuff?

They just toss it in the garbage?

Yep.

Or like a

McDonald's or

a

Burger King or whomever.

What do they do?

They just toss it?

Yep.

Wow.

And in the kids defense.

Well, yeah, he was just falling water.

Oh, exactly.

I'm not getting out of the kid, but I'm just like, wait a minute.

The policy there, right.

And it's too bad they don't mark that down 50%.

75

you know, well, and there's then John

what about

two organizations out there maybe for Good to go is a now is a is a is an app Where like some businesses can register and then they can mark their food down 50% and still sell it.

Okay

There's those mechanisms

be a line.

Yeah, I would be there every whatever day it was I'd be like my mom at the day old bread store

Are you kidding me right?

I thought we got to get a little bit more creative

Yeah, you know what

I mean exactly

like I said, it's I think sometimes we're good

Well, I mean just a logical part is it might be somebody who's gonna be sleeping in that doorway tonight Who would give anything for a hamburger, okay?

So three blocks away They're taking a bunch of hamburgers and they're throwing them in the garbage.

Yeah, that's that was her point when she got

here Yeah,

it's the distribution

so we

know Jim.

No, I'm just saying that that somebody's got

a

Connect the dots and that's what you're

that's what you're trying

to do, right?

I'm still traumatized from the burning is getting pig

I apparently I

know

but yeah, we are we are actually been activated to rescue Recovered the food that's going to waste during the draft so starting next Tuesday We will be picking up all of the food perishable food that would otherwise go to waste

and get it out to agencies in our community.

And we're going to talk about, we're going to see you Wednesday because Wednesday you have a little bit of a fundraiser.

We'll talk about that when we

come

back.

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She's

a great chef, but what she does is something that's super interesting in our community and collects food that's excess that we don't want to go into.

That normally would get thrown away.

And we're talking about, of course, the draft is coming up.

Everybody knows that.

And there may be, probably will be, some excess food that these restaurants and caters are going to have.

And you're going to be responsible.

Is that the right word?

Yeah.

for picking that up and making sure it gets to the right place.

And that's gonna be people who

need it.

Or hungry.

Right.

And as you said, there's plenty of food.

That's not a problem.

Exactly.

There's plenty

of people that want that food.

That's right.

It's making that connection between the two groups where you fill in.

That's right.

Okay.

Saw a problem and figured out a solution.

Awesome.

And you're a nonprofit.

You need to be funded.

That is right.

And a lot of funds come through charity.

People like that give you money.

That's

right.

And on Thursday,

You'll be a part of a fundraising effort by Bellin, and we're gonna be there.

Bellin's clinic is, what street is that?

I mean, on Ridge Road.

On Ridge,

right.

The sports medicine clinic.

And out in front of there, they're gonna have food trucks, and the proceeds go to your organization.

I know Boys and Girls Club is going to be there.

I forgot who else was there, but people can stop there before they go into the draft and buy something and the proceeds go to you.

That's right.

So there'll be four food trucks there.

And then there's going to be an 100 by 40 foot tent.

And underneath the tent, there will be 10 local food artisans selling food and donating back to Rooted Inn.

That's awesome.

I

can ask you this.

But if you were the czar, if you could just like, they said, listen, Selena, solve this problem, what would you do that you can't quite get your tentacles in yet?

You know what I mean?

If they said solve this problem in this community, what would you do?

I mean, you're doing everything you can, but what would be the other barriers you'd knock down to make it better?

Well, John, my big dream is to build a community culinary center.

So it would be a facility that we can aggregate all of this food.

We can process it in a commercial kitchen space.

We want to put in a food as medicine teaching kitchen.

So that's where Amplify Health.

The reason why they invited us to be a part of this is we align greatly with their health priorities.

And so we want to solve this problem together with our community partners.

Um, and so having a space where we can be a resource center, um, you know, for everyone in our community, regardless of income, a

physical space,

a physical building.

Yes.

Um, we're modeling, um, that'd be up

your alley, finding something.

Yeah.

I

enjoyed raising money.

Well, that's

fantastic.

That guy yesterday, I got to talk to you about it because he's, that's why he said, I want to talk to you for a few minutes.

So, but I gave me your number.

So what would you need?

What do I need to make that

become a reality?

Well, I need to have the right partners at the table I specifically would love to have this community culinary center on the west side of Green Bay on Broadway perhaps in the new shipyard district With the Green Bay public market being here.

We could create an amazing food

area specifically in our community.

One thing that Rooted In does that no other nonprofit does is me being a chef.

I've created thousands of recipes over my career.

So we create local recipes to support local entrepreneurs.

So we use their products.

farmers donate products to me and then I create recipes using them.

And so when you go to our website, you'll find recipes for all sorts of salads and entrees, but linked to as many local ingredients as possible.

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Farm for vets.

Oh, I know.

I know Jacob.

Yeah, he's donated color greens to me.

Isn't Jake awesome?

Yes, he's amazing.

But

it's like you guys are cut from the same cloth.

We

are.

It's what you're trying to do.

We absolutely are.

That's beautiful.

I

have to say this, and I have to give you guys little kudos, because I love the fact that we bring in individuals like Selena and Jacob.

And somehow there's already kind of a connection.

And if there's not, the connections are being made.

Absolutely.

Yeah, this is

awesome.

And you had my good friend DeLorean Walls on a couple of weeks ago.

We are both graduates of the Food Leaders Lab.

He's

awesome.

He's actually going to

be on with us next week

because

they've got the fundraiser going on for St.

Norbert College, the food drive next week,

too.

Excellent.

Fantastic.

Yep.

We're pals.

You know what's cool is there are some people here and young people.

I mean, like yourself, you know what I mean?

who well I mean you know there's there was the old stodgy green bay at one time that you know what I mean Jim all the politicians were 70 they're all whatever you know what I mean they're and it's like there's a different generation of people now that have said you know like yourself and like Jake and and and DeLorean and all these people it's like you know what we're gonna kind of forge our own community here

And I think it's awesome what you guys do.

It is amazing what's going on around community building.

There is a new app that just launched last week called Local.

Bob Dalton came here to Green Bay to launch the app.

He is the founder of Satcloth and Ashes.

But it's literally a completely new platform versus Facebook, Instagram, and all these other social media where you get in your feeds, you're getting all this stuff you don't really want to see.

Local is all about building community and connecting with other people in your community to get things done.

That's how you get it done.

It really is.

I

want to talk more

down the road about this, about the building type thing.

So rootedinink.org.

That is correct.

Or you are at Selena at rootedinink.org.

That's right.

We've got a texture for you, Selena.

Are you connecting with local Airbnb hosts to take people's leftover food as donations?

Yes, we are.

OK.

Thank you,

Colin.

That's a real opportunity.

And

it is.

There's

a lot of opportunities out there.

I'm

glad

you got your feelers out on all that, because that's great what you're doing.

And you are really the only nonprofit that's working this hard on this, right?

We are.

We are.

All

right.

I think

it's awesome.

I want to

learn more about this, too.

I think what I'm hearing

is what you're going

to do.

And I love the area.

I mean, Broadway, Shipyard.

I mean, it's

got to be unique.

And this is unique.

If I was one of your guys that went around and picked up stuff and saved from a quick trip or something, would it be OK if I just had something on the way?

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What are

you saying?

I

mean,

the first.

Well, it wouldn't be going away.

No.

This is when he's asking, can the first drop off be his house?

Thanks for doing this.

We'll see you at the draft.

I don't like

it anymore.

At Bellin.

All right.

We'll

see you.

Wonderful.

What you're

doing.

Thank you for taking the time to come in here

and spread the word.

You bet.

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Now, once again, here's Mino and the Mayor, John Mino and Jim

Schmidt.

Hey,

welcome back.

Mino the Mayor here.

Great segment.

Nicely done.

Selena Darrow rooted in ink.

This is something we talked about all the time, and she is actually doing something about it.

Where food, wonderful, delicious, healthy, good food gets thrown away, which is a sin.

I think it is a sin.

I

might go to hell for that.

No, that's the one thing I won't go to hell for,

wasting food.

Especially when it's hungry people.

That's what really makes it a

crime.

Okay, no, okay.

So I'm gonna ask you this because you deal with this the other day I was over by the library or excuse me.

I was over by the post office on Monroe And the lady comes up to me and asked for money.

Okay, and it was a really cold windy day like it's always been the last six months here and She had a blanket around it's like and I didn't have any cash.

I mean, I don't carry cash,

right?

And I felt bad but it's like does that person need to eat?

If I'd given her something, would that have been her meal for the day or was it a little bit of a scam type thing?

Like they talk about that's going on where people get hired to like ask me and then they get a small percentage

and the other

people.

What's the deal with that?

I need you, former mayor of Green Bay, finger on the pulse of the community, working with homeless, working with whatever, whatever.

What's the status of the people that you see?

with signs and asking for things.

I'm certainly not, I don't want to be cold-hearted and whatever, whatever.

But is that a little bit of a scam where those people aren't really getting the money?

And we talk about that at work, right?

Because especially when there's room in the inn, right?

And it's, first, there's a couple things, Johnny.

Salvation Army serves lunch every day.

We serve dinner every day.

They can go to a place, get warm and have a good meal.

When they're sitting there with

Because

there is always somebody at Walmart East, okay, far and un-main, and there's always somebody and they am just gonna be honest.

They always have the same, no matter which part of town you go in, they will have the exact same sign.

We've approached those people.

I personally, I don't work in case management.

So we've had people approach those people and some of them, you're not gonna believe this.

They're content doing that.

They're okay with that.

We're like, look,

I mean, they're working for somebody.

No, no, no.

I'm just saying there are signs.

I'll say the same

thing.

Yeah.

And they're all a piece of cardboard and he'll say anything will help.

I don't I don't know that detail.

All I'm saying is that we've asked these people like, look, we can help you.

Right.

I mean, if this person was really in need, I'd be more than half without giving

him money, though.

We're like, we can help you come to our place and we got case management.

We can and they they refuse that help, which is sad.

I mean we have people in our place and you've met some of them that we're sleeping outside on a slide So the animals didn't get to them a year and a half ago and now they're working and they got

their own

apartment So it can happen, but they they have to want it they have to want that more than you do I mean they really really have to want that life and some people at this point in time they don't I don't know what the answer is to that but like that lady you ran into at the post office.

I'm

I should probably shouldn't say this on the air.

I don't give money.

I mean, my wife does, I don't.

I'm like, look, there's resources in this town and you need to take advantage of them.

We have a lot of nonprofits in this city.

I mean, think about the people

that are showing last two

years.

There's help out there, but to give $5, $10 to someone with the sign, I don't think that's the answer.

I just don't.

Especially when you look at...

all the 501c3s we've had through this place.

It's amazing.

We're talking about Mana for Life and of course there's Salvation Army, there's New Community, there's just a lot of places.

I feel bad when I see them.

I'm not gonna take that away from them, but

they have been

approached by people.

But is somebody else putting money in their own pockets for their own whatever and using these people to make money?

Right.

I don't know

that because there was a guy I'm trying to think where it was exactly was in Green Bay And he was this was like last summer and he was sitting in a lounge chair type thing or yeah, you know What do you take to the beach type thing?

All right sitting there reading a book

and assigned homeless vet, please help.

And he had two coolers that were stuffed with stuff.

And I stopped.

And I said, where were you?

You know, thanks for your service.

Where are you?

And he was real shady.

I don't even like to talk about it.

I thought, oh, you're scam.

You're a scam.

He's sitting there in this chair, and people are bringing up loaves of bread.

Thank you for your service thing.

And he was scamming.

He was using the whole veteran aspect, scamming people.

I hate that so much.

That's sad.

Yeah, but and they turn around they count their money like a book.

Yeah People you see that's the people in Green Bay are so nice.

Oh my god.

I give this guy ten bucks or five I just I don't know.

There's resources out there Yes, and you know, I of course drive

And

there are certain places that you know there are certain places,

right?

And I think they go back there because people give them money to write we talked about that

But there was a person at the when you take the exit off of like Webster and you come down past Heritage Hill Okay, and then you come down to Riverside Drive basically Like last summer there was somebody almost every day a different person Standing where people are stops I yeah with the same sign.

Can I like man your post?

Yes

And again, I will do anything possible to help anybody in need.

But if somebody's scamming people out of the word, where somebody's getting penalized for the goodness of their heart, wanting to help somebody and somebody's just lining their pockets with it and lying or doing a fake military type thing.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

But our case managers have said, you know, get in the car, which I think is risky, but

they would never do that.

No,

they do that.

They drive them.

I wouldn't do that.

And.

Most of them are women.

They just

I wouldn't

do it.

Yeah, I'll take it on.

Yeah, they do.

Wow.

I'm like, wow.

I don't think I would do that.

But yeah, I don't know.

I don't know the right stuff to say.

We got a text here.

Kickball team name as homage to John's grandmother, Nona's revenge.

Bonus points if the team shirts are prison strikes.

I like

that.

Nancy,

I like

that.

Definitely.

They went for the uniform.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know what would also be cool with that?

Maybe we can get like a distillery or a brewery to do a Nona's revenge.

Right.

Right beer or

liquor.

That would be that would be that would be

our

fundraiser.

Right.

A moonshine.

Yeah.

Oh my goodness.

We have enough distilleries on board.

OK.

OK.

All of our people involved in our top contact top craft pick.

Who wants to do it?

Who wants to do it?

And don't forget, your last chance to vote on that for the top one is tomorrow at 5 p.m.

Then the contest is over.

Next week, we'll announce which of the top craft drafters actually came through as the top craft pick.

And one person who voted along this whole time, these 10 or 12 weeks, will walk away with $250 in gift cards from these businesses.

Beautiful.

You know what I want to do though?

We've made a vow.

We're gonna visit every single one and I'm gonna buy some swag like a shirt or whatever because they all have unbelievably cool logos and everything That's such a big part of it these days.

It seems like which is awesome I'm gonna get t-shirts from every one of those places and I'm gonna wear them all summer because I want to promote all the people that took part in our contest

Yeah, that's I'm gonna go to their events.

You know, they talked about the music.

I want to do when we go there

We'll stop in, but there's just some cool things going on at some of these outdoor events.

Got texts here.

Remember, in Minos listeners, you guys named the Blizzard we did.

Also, I named Kiwani the Storm.

You said that.

And I wrote their theme song, their fight song.

Yeah, I don't think that ever got confirmed, but yeah, you did say that.

I got confirmed.

No, I don't think that story was ever confirmed.

Mino and the Mayor's moonshine.

Moonshine's

not bad.

That's a cool name because we don't use that anymore.

I

like I like Nona's revenge.

Nona's revenge is not bad at

all.

We gotta do this.

We gotta do this.

Which of our distilleries would like to take part in this?

I'll give you half the profit.

I

don't think you have any problem with that.

I'm gonna give you half the profit.

Don't give it away so fast.

What?

Please, half the profit.

We gotta

fund the

team.

We gotta buy uniforms.

We're gonna have to go out after you know and celebrate our victories.

We've I don't know there's gotta be an entry cost to this I mean it's gonna cost us a couple grand to get this thing off the ground in it.

I don't I don't know I don't spend money No, all

right, so when is this league kickoff?

I don't know.

I didn't know that was a nice little pun

When does the league kick off?

Oh, yeah, I don't know I didn't know anything about it till you guys mentioned it today or Todd mentioned it that it's this could be at the stadium district I wonder if it's gonna be on that astro turf field.

That'd be fun.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not even kidding.

I'm putting a team together Artificial hip or not Achilles issues or not actually you know where you gotta have on the team though mark hueson In case something goes down with me.

Oh, I don't know if he's gonna play even just our trainer or he'll be the trainer something yeah

Oh, yeah, he'll be the trainer because my Achilles, my bone spur.

Yes.

My artificial hip.

No,

he'll be,

you know, I got a lot of bleep going on.

And then the that chef that was just on, she can maybe like for like practice and

stuff.

She can bring us stuff from

absolutely quick trip.

No question.

Absolutely.

Fast boys.

Stuff expires in an hour.

I will get our

guests.

Okay.

I just want to say something Have you ever had anything in your fridge and you think mmm, and you maybe smell it or any of okay here?

So I've been there, okay?

But what I do then is I just microwave it and I think that kills everything.

Mm-hmm.

Doesn't it?

Mm-hmm.

No,

why wouldn't it

if it smells even

nuts?

Nope, it's gone