take action for Earth Month
Today, 47 million people are experiencing hunger in the United States, while 74 million tons of perfectly good food goes to landfills. This month, we invite you to take action with FRN to combat hunger and climate change.
Check out these fun, virtual opportunities and join the fight!
Make every month earth month
Food Recovery Network started as a group of four students at the University of Maryland. Now, our student-led chapters are recovering food on over 200 campuses in 46 states and Washington D.C., and our nationwide network has recovered more than 22.9 million pounds of food and prevented more than 7419 metric tons of CO2 emissions to date.
Become a monthly donor and sustain our programs all year long so that we can feed more people faster.
food waste prevention week
FRN will kick off Earth Month by celebrating Food Waste Prevention Week, April 7-13! Join the week’s webinars or search for more ways to get involved here. Learn more
Help Grow our network
Since July, FRN has welcomed 30 new student chapters on college and university campuses into our network! Help us keep that momentum going by encouraging your friends and family members to start a chapter at their school. Your referral means everything!
Recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ familial ties to these lands
Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Ok. designed this map of Native American tribes before first contact with Europeans. You can learn more about Aaron and purchase his maps here.
No matter who we are, how we grew up or where we live, the Earth and the nature that surrounds us is our family. While many of us have embraced Earth Day, or even Earth Month, as a way to celebrate our life-giving planet, it is important to know that the roots of celebration go much farther back. The numerous Indigenous Peoples living in the US have a sacred connection to the Earth dating back thousands of years. We all have the opportunity to listen to their teachings, and to be in community with others whose relationships with the Earth differ from our own. Food Recovery Network thanks the many Indigenous Peoples for their continued stewardship of the Earth and gives thanks to them for allowing us to learn from them and show us ways to reconnect to the Earth in ways we may not have been taught. Read Executive Director Regina’s blog post to learn more.
“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share”