OUR MISSION

FeedTahoe mission is to rescue food, feed people, and protect the planet. We aim to ensure that all surplus, delicious food in our community doesn’t go to landfill, but gets to families in our community that need it most.

We prevent perfectly good food from entering the waste stream by redirecting it to those who are experiencing food insecurity.

Thanks to our volunteer drivers — our Food Rescue Heroes —  we are able to recover and redistribute perfectly healthy food directly to people who need it.

FeedTahoe is a direct program of the Marcella Foundation.

We are planning to support food rescue missions in South Lake Tahoe and the surrounding areas.

Why We Do It

FeedTahoe was founded as a direct response to the disconnect between food waste, hunger, and environmental sustainability. We waste up to 40% of our food globally (translating to over 1.3 billion tons annually), while 1 in 7 people go hungry every day. According to ReFed, if we recovered about half (46 billion pounds) of the food being wasted, we could feed every hungry person in the United States 3 meals a day, every day.

Not to mention, food waste is an environmental problem. Food production uses 10% of the energy budget, 50% of the land and 80% of all freshwater consumed in the United States. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, over 97% of food waste generated ends up in a landfill.