Earth Day Celebration

Join us in the SODO Kitchen for Earth Day.  Bon Appetit at Starbucks will be showcasing how we use IPD – Imprefectly Delicious Produce.

Every year, vast amounts of produce go unharvested, left in the fields because they don’t meet stringent cosmetic standards for shape, size, and color. Other items might fail to make the cut for Grade A product standards later, and either get sold through secondary markets as “seconds” or simply tossed.

Wasted food is also an environmental disaster. When we waste food, we waste all the resources — the water, oil, chemicals, land, and labor — that went into growing and processing it. Food in landfills decomposes and emits methane, the greenhouse gas that’s 20 to 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Through the Imperfectly Delicious Produce program, we are able to prevent waste in the supply chain and reduce the negative impact it has on our environment while putting money back in the pockets of farmers who need it most. In 2016 alone, we saved 2 million pounds of cosmetically challenged and underappreciated fruits and vegetables.