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The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert, a holiday tradition for so many, is celebrating an amazing 30 years of performing its annual holiday extravaganza this year with three concerts at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. Concerts are Friday, December 15, and Saturday, December 16, at 8:00 p.m., and a special matinee performance on Sunday, December 17, at 3:00 p.m. You can support Food Rescue US – Fairfield County by purchasing a VIP ticket!

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• Check out the excellent Netflix docu-series, “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,” where NatGeo reporter Dan Buettner, travels around the world to discover five unique communities where people live extraordinarily long and vibrant lives. Spoiler: FOOD IS MEDICINE!
• New presidential advisory puts food at the heart of U.S. health policy.
• Mexican consumers are beginning to see warning labels on packages of food and drink warning excessive in sugars, sodium, saturated fats, trans-fats and/or calories in products.
• Local Bites: We talk to Danbury Farmers’ Market Community Collaborative’s Peggy Zamore. Peggy explains how she became the collaborative’s Director/Nutritionist, how they walk the walk not just talk the talk, gives advice on what to do when summer farmers’ markets close for the season, and more!  

The longer version

Secrets of Blue Zones

In the excellent Netflix docu-series, “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,” host, author, and NatGeo reporter Dan Buettner, travels around the world to discover five unique communities where people live extraordinarily long and vibrant lives. Spoiler: FOOD IS MEDICINE! 

DIGESTIBLE BITES

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• Almost every locally grown vegetable in Connecticut is in season right now!
• When doctors and health-care providers “prescribed” fruits and vegetables, patients lost weight and experienced significantly lowered blood pressure.
• A UConn grad built a hydroponic garden on the roof of Hartford Hospital to combat food insecurity.
• Making plant-based meals the default in hospital meals reduced food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 36% in NYC!

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Did you know that just about every locally grown vegetable in Connecticut is considered to be in season right now? Check out the Connecticut Department of Agriculture’s Crop Availability Calendar and get inspired!  Please read on for Local Bites below for a list of CT farmers’ markets that participate in the Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.

Stacey Smith, the Site Director of Food Rescue US – Northwest CT, was recently interviewed about food recovery in Northwest CT. She discusses who is affected most by...

In just under two days, Food Rescue US – Fairfield County rescued over 40,000 pounds of fresh cucumbers and distributed them throughout Fairfield County and beyond. They say “teamwork makes the dream work” and “many hands make light work” and the Great Cucumber Rescue demonstrated this in action!

Food Rescue US – South FL was recently featured as ReFED’s Food Waste Action Network member spotlight. The goal of the Member Spotlight Series is to give FWAN members a peek into the amazing work that others in the food recovery community and to connect members who could potentially benefit from a collaboration. Click here to read the full article.

We are pleased to share our 2022 Impact Report highlighting what we accomplished together last year. Our work is very hands-on and collaborative, with thousands of people choosing to participate in order to help their communities and preserve our planet. Last year, our network of sites around the country rescued 32+ million pounds of healthy, surplus food and provided 26+ million meals to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity. This is indeed a win/win for all.