Environment News

Students from the Environment Group, accompanied by Elizabeth Kenny and Kathryn Badini, ventured to the FareShare site at Morningside. It is the largest charity kitchen in the southern hemisphere. Basically, they use surplus food (they don’t like to say food waste because they’re clearly not wasting it!) and cook up a range of healthy and nutritious meals for a range of front-line charities. The meals are then transported to people in need all over Queensland – e.g. Indigenous communities, domestic violence shelters, homeless shelters, soup vans etc.). They get about 10 tonnes of food each week (food that would be wasted otherwise – close to use by date, mislabelled, waste stock, commercial issues with the size, colour or appearance etc.) and they cook about 6000 – 7000 meals a day. The chefs have to do a mystery box, like on MasterChef! They have to make meals out of what comes in and what they already have frozen, as well as cater for many different people palettes like kids to oldies and cultural differences and people in remote areas without a kitchen or much electricity. Their website is here - https://www.fareshare.net.au/about-us/.

The Environment Group is focusing on food waste next term. For our Free Dress Day in Week 4, we are doing a fundraising/staple drive for the ingredients that FareShare is always in need of - salt, canned pulses (legumes, chickpeas, lentils), canned tomatoes, and Rolled Oats.