Join us in cutting food waste This Food Waste Action Week the statistics on food waste continue to be staggering despite some 71 per cent of Australians being motivated to reduce their own food waste. For example, one third of all the world’s food is still wasted. That’s enough to Read more…
People struggling to put food on the table will be enjoying salmon and other fish delicacies after a COVID-positive customer at the Prahran Market forced traders to shut for cleaning. An incredible 400kg of fresh fish including salmon, kingfish, prawns, scallops, squid, and mussels was donated to FareShare by Periwinkle Read more…
Big Christmas gatherings risk big Christmas food waste but FareShare chef Dion Kemsley is in a unique position to offer solutions. “I’ve been a chef all my life,” says Dion, who was employed at Caulfield Racecourse before his work dried up in Melbourne’s lockdown. “I was told people have got Read more…
For many of us Christmas lunch is one of the most nutritious meals of the year and a festive highlight. But it’s also the time when we spend the most and waste the most. This Christmas, Australians will discard more than one quarter of the food they buy, much of Read more…
Kellie inspects the Foodbank Queensland warehouse which will supply us with ingredients and distribute our cooked meals FareShare’s exciting new Brisbane venture to create nutritious meals for Queenslanders is rapidly taking shape. We now have the keys to our new Morningside facility– a former serum laboratory – close to Foodbank Read more…
Kellie contemplates the possibilities of creating nutritious meals in the Sunshine State where Foodbank rescues 40 tonnes of food a day FareShare is expanding to Queensland to dramatically increase the number of free ready-to-eat meals available for Australians in need. As Australia’s biggest charity kitchen, we have signed an agreement Read more…
It’s going to be a long night in the FareShare warehouse sorting six vans of rescued food from the Fine Food Australia expo. Well done to Pat for leading the massive mission & our crew of volunteers for picking up everything from beautiful beef to fabulous flour. FareShare undertook our Read more…