Bountiful Basket Blog

Each year, 119 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S., almost 40% of our food supply.  (feedingamerica.org, June, 2023). Bountiful Basket Food Shelf in Chaska helps families and individuals in surrounding communities with food insecurity.  We also help to feed the pigs and chickens and not throw the food we cannot give to people in...

Both hunger and food waste are serious problems.  Food rescue helps to not only stock shelves of food pantries but is also good for our communities and the climate. Food recovery, food salvage or surplus food distribution are all terms used to describe food rescue. It is what food banks, food shelves and meal programs do to glean edible food that...

What is food insecurity?  Food insecurity is a lack of access to adequate healthy foods or enough food for an active healthy life.  There is no single root cause for hunger. Often, it is several factors coming together at once, including economic disruption such as job loss, illness, poverty, and lack of transportation with age and race are also...