Gary Oppenheimer
speaker
216 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 May
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In the United States, 62 million people are gardeners.
62 million, one out of every five Americans.
And they grow food in their backyard garden, often more than they can use or preserve or share with friends.
That resulted in a massive waste of food because the food bank system said, we can't take that.
Every food drive said jars, cans, boxes, but no fresh food.
They weren't getting healthy fresh food and it was really hurting the nation's health and well-being.
Building an information-based solution to a food problem allows me to solve the problem on a vast scale without ever touching the food.
Gary Oppenheimer is a pioneering, impact-driven social innovator and the founder of ampleharvest.org.
Through his work, he is transforming the way communities address food waste and hunger by connecting homegrown surplus with local food pantries.
We're reducing climate change, reducing hunger, reducing malnutrition on a very hyper-local basis.
Today, this small nonprofit with a staff of only four people is operating in 5,800 communities in all 50 states, plus Native American reservations.
It spans the globe like a super high school internet.
Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone.
Sure, the nonprofit's called ampleharvest.org.
Everybody thinks our food is farm to table and much of it is, but in the United States, 62 million people are gardeners.
They grow food, 62 million, one out of every five Americans.
And they grow food in their backyard garden, often more than they can use or preserve or share with friends.
That resulted in a massive waste of food because the food bank system said, we can't take that.
Every food drive said jars, cans, boxes, but no fresh food.
Yes.
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