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• Food: Too Good to Waste Implementation Guide and Toolkit
• EPA – Reducing Wasted Food At Home
• OSU Extension – Home Food Safety and Preservation Program
• Eat Smart, Waste Less – and save money, too!
• Going Zero Waste – with many tip, including food
• Find recipes for the food you have on hand

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• DEQ – Strategy for Preventing the Wasting of Food
• Refed – FOOD WASTE SOLUTIONS
• Further with Food – Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions
• Creating a sustainable food future – A Menu of Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050

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• Access – 3630 Aviation Way Medford, OR (map) 541-779-6691. Provides emergency food boxes to hungry families and individuals in Jackson county through a network of over 24 food pantries
• Ashland Emergency Food Bank – (541) 488-9544, 560 Clover Lane, Ashland (map). Receives non-perishable food and garden surplus
• LOCAL FOOD PROJECTS – Food donations are picked up at your home every two months and donated to the food bank
  • Ashland Food Project (541) 488-6976
  • Talent Food Project (541) 897-4347
  • Phoenix Food Project (541) 778-1517
  • Medford Food Project (541) 210-8288
• Ashland Food Angels collect usable food daily from markets, bakers, etc., donating over 250,000 pounds of food annually, primarily to the Food Bank and community free meal programs. To donate food, help financially, or become a volunteer, contact Pamala Joy at 541-482-5330 or email ashlandf*********@**ail.com
• Uncle Food’s Diner Since its beginning in 1993, Uncle Food’s Diner has become the major feeding program for Ashland’s very poor and homeless residents. Each Tuesday, 4pm at the Ashland First Methodist Church (map), it provides a hot, nutritious meal to an average of 120 guests. Contact the Peace House office at 541 482-9625 or email in**@**acehouse.net
• Neighborhood Harvest is a grassroots organization based in Ashland Oregon, dedicated to harvesting fruit, nuts, and produce that would otherwise go to waste from yards, gardens and farms in the Rogue Valley

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For Composting, see the Compost section on What Can I Do?

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• Rogue Disposal & Recycling and Dry Creek Landfill Information (541) 779-4161, Medford.
  Transfer Station – Dry Creek 8001 Table Rock Road White City, OR 97503. (map)
• If you are served by Southern Oregon Sanitation, type the name of a waste item and they’ll tell you how to recycle or dispose of it
• Plastics: What’s Recyclable, What Becomes Trash — And Why – excellent information on recycling responsibly

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• Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered (behind a paywall)
• YouTube video on High price of food waste
• Administration’s proposal would increase hunger across the land
• See this YouTube video on food waste that is both very funny, and very pointed
• How we solve the planet’s food waste problem
• The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Their goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.

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In partnership with Oregon’s DEQ, we work with local businesses and organizations that deal with food. There is more information here and we can bring the complimentary workshop for foodservice professionals to you! For more information, or to request a workshop, email us.

In partnership with Oregon’s DEQ, we work with local businesses and organizations that deal with food. There is more information here and we are co-sponsoring a complimentary workshops for foodservice professionals, Thursday, March 14, 1 – 4pm, Jackson County Health and Human Services, 140 South Holly St, Medford, OR 97501 [map]. Register here.