Food Waste
Keeping Food Waste Out Of Landfills
Disposing of food and organic waste in landfills not only wastes valuable nutrients and takes up precious landfill space but also creates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. We work alongside restaurants to help keep food waste out of landfills, and increase our animals diets with healthy nutritious foods.
What We Do
We’ve teamed up with several restaurants to work on keeping food waste out of landfills. We have scheduled pick up times were we pick up full pails of compostable scraps, and drop off empty clean pails. The pails are provided by Ledwich Family Farm and are lidded to follow food safe practices. If you are a restaurant looking to team up, we have all the food safe practices that you need to follow restaurant standards and should reach out in the form below! These compostable scraps are then fed to our animals, mostly the pigs. Pigs need a balanced diet of fresh foods, along with grain. A whole grain diet is very high in protein and fats which can lead to unhealthy weight gain. We have lots of other animals that benefit from these scraps. Any scraps that are unusable will be composted, putting nutrients back in the soil.
Who We Do It With
Freshii, St James St
Winnipeg, MB
Rosie’s Cafe
Inwood, MB
Compost
Any food that we can’t feed to the animals we compost. Part of the permaculture community garden project is building a large scale compost system that can help bring nutrients back into the soil. When we waste food in landfills we create a build up of harmful gasses, such as methane. Think of it as putting your leftover lunch in a ziploc bag and sealing it shut. The food will rot, but it isn’t doing anything beneficial. When we compost we are helping our natural ecosystem, feeding microorganisms that we need to survive, putting nutrients back in the soil and so much more.
Foods Safe for Pigs
These are foods that are appropriate to put into our provided pails.
Vegetables
ALL summer & winter squash
Acorn Squash
Amaranth
Arrowroot
Artichoke
Arugula
Asparagus
Banana Squash
Bamboo shoots
Beets
Belgian endive
Bell Peppers
Black Eyed Peas
Black Salsify
Bok choy
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Burdock Root
Butter Lettuce
Buttercup Squash
Butternut Squash
Cabbage & red cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery Root
Celery
Chayote Squash
Cherry Tomatoes
Chickweed
Chives
Collard greens
Corn
Cucumbers
Dandelion flower and leaves
Eggplant
Endive
Fava Beans
Fennel
Galangal Root
Green Beans
Green leaf lettuce
Green Soybeans (Edamame)
Jicama
Kale
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Lettuce
Lima Beans
Manoa
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Mustard Greens
Okra
Olives
Parsnips
Pea Pods
Peanuts (unsalted)
Peas Plantain
Pumpkin
Purple Asparagus
Radicchio
Radishes & leaves
Red clover
Red Leaf Lettuce
Romaine lettuce
Rutabagas
Shallots
Snow Peas
Sorrel
Spinach
Spring Baby Lettuce
Sugar Snap Peas
Sweet Dumpling Squash
Sweet Potatoes
Swiss chard
Turnip greens
Fruits
Apples NO SEEDS
Apricots NO PITS
Bananas & peels
Bitter Melon
lack Currants
Blackberries
Blueberries
Boysenberries
Breadfruit
Cactus Pear
Cantaloupe
Cape Gooseberries
Cherimoya
Cherries NO PITS
Clementines
Coconut
Crab Apples
Cranberries fresh or dried
Dates
Durian
Elderberries – Blue
Elderberries – Purple Feijoa
Figs
Grapefruit
Grapes, cut in half
uava
Honeydew Melon
Huckleberries
Jackfruit
Jujube
Kiwi & peels
Kumquats
Lemons
Limes
Loganberries
Lychee
Mango
Mulberries
Nectarine NO PITS
Olallie berries
Oranges
Papayas
Passion Fruit
Peaches NO PITS
Pears NO PITS
Persimmons
Pineapple
Plums NO PITS
Pomegranate
Pummelo
Quince
Raspberries
Red Banana
Red Currants
Sapodillas
Sharon Fruit
Star fruit
Strawberries
Tangerines
Thimbleberry
Watermelon & rind
Nuts & Seeds
Almonds
Cashews
Chia Seeds
Cumin Seeds
Brazil Nuts
Black Oil Sunflower Seeds
Flax Seeds (in moderation)
Grape Seeds
Hazelnuts
Hemp Hearts / Hemp Seeds
Macadamia Nuts
Papaya Seeds
Peanuts
Pecans
Pine Nuts
Pistachios
Pomegranate Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Quinoa
Sesame Seeds
Sunflower Seeds
Walnuts
Legumes
Must be cooked – NO canned beans
Alfalfa
Black Beans
Black Eyed Peas
Boston Beans
Chick Peas
Fava Beans
Field Peas
Kidney Beans
Lentils
Lima Beans
Mayocoba Beans
Mung Beans
Navy Beans
Pinto Beans
Red Beans
Split Peas