Nourishment for All

A program that provides healthy food to vulnerable populations in our community.

Our Projects

Cooking for the Community
Food and gleaned local produce is made into meals or shelf stable food and donated Altrusa House, NWTC Shared Harvest, The Fridge and Trinity Lutheran Church ELCA food pantries to mitigate food waste and feed our community.

The Glean Team

Gleaning is simply the act of collecting excess fresh foods from farms, gardens, farmers markets, grocers, restaurants, state/county fairs, or any other sources in order to provide it to those in need.

Our Glean Team is a multi-prong project:
1. Identify locations and businesses to collect excess food to prevent waste.
2. Volunteers pick up food and transport to our office.
3. Volunteers help clean/sort rescued food to:
a.) Redistribute to food pantry partners
b.) Use in our healthy Cooking for the Community meals
c.) Freeze or dehydrate produce for homemade sauce making in bulk (our winter project).
4. Volunteers redistribute food to food pantry partners.

Rooted In Growing

Summer 2024- Grew produce in our own 50 x 50 community plot through the Brown County Community Gardens program for our Cooking for the Community and Glean Team projects.
Hundreds of pounds of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, herbs, tomatillos, mustard greens and peppers were harvested to feed our community.

Much of the produce has been frozen to use to make sauce later this winter with the herbs we have also dehydrated. What a delight it will be to use the sauces in our meals with produce we grew- to donate to food pantry partners.

Our Executive Director Selena Darrow who had never gardened before, spent hundreds of hours in the garden with her husband to ensure that our garden would be successful. By trying, she learned that gardening is alot of trial, error and hard work, but it is really is fun to grow your own produce.

Love to Garden? Want to grow produce to feed our community?
Join our Rooted In Gardening Committee to help us plan for 2025
Contact: Selena Darrow, selena@rootedininc.org

Food Donation Tracker

Just how much food have we donated to fight food insecurity in Greater Green Bay?
July 2023 to Oct 2024= 13,553 pounds

If you are interested in supporting our program financially, visit our donate page HERE or contact our Executive Director, Selena Darrow at: selena@rootedininc.org

Why Fighting Food Waste and Feeding our Community is Important

ReFED is a national nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss and waste by advancing data-driven solutions. With their holistic view of the food system, they are working to achieve a 50% food waste reduction in accordance with the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. They are doing it by fostering informed action – action that’s driven by solutions to specific challenges, that’s grounded in data, that’s targeted to where it can benefit the most, and that’s coordinated across multiple stakeholders and evaluated to ensure success.

Rooted In is pleased to share their resource with the Greater Green Bay community. We use their data to guide our Nourishment for All program so, collaboratively, we can solve the food waste problem and divert excess food to those who are hungry in our community.

ReFED Insights Engine

An online hub for data and solutions featuring the most comprehensive examination of food loss and waste in the United States – includes the Food Waste Monitor, Solutions Database, Solution Provider Directory, Impact Calculator, Capital Tracker, and Policy Finder.

Link to Insights Engine HERE.