Imperfect Foods will host the first-ever LA Food Waste Week, curating activations, panel discussions, workshops, and demos designed to raise awareness for the issue of food waste. From March 28-April 1, the brand will pop up at The Rose Room in Venice Beach, inviting the LA community to join in the conversation around waste and our broken food system, inspiring change at a local level to help solve a global problem.
In addition, the brand is teaming up with some of the LA area’s top restaurants—Cafe Gratitude, Plant Food + Wine, The Rose Venice, Venice Ale House, The Butcher’s Daughter Venice and Only The Wild Ones—in an effort to save 1,000 lbs of food from waste in the Los Angeles area. Throughout Food Waste Week, participating restaurants will create special waste-fighting dishes by incorporating recovered produce or grocery items from Imperfect Foods that would have otherwise gone to waste. For every meal sold at participating restaurants, Imperfect Foods will make a donation of $5 to The Hollywood Food Coalition, with an additional $2 donation from beverage partner Juneshine Kombucha for every hard kombucha purchased.
Imperfect Foods is the online grocer building a kinder, less wasteful food system, in partnership with like-minded partners Juneshine Kombucha, Who Gives A Crap, and Intelligentsia Coffee, alongside local LA restaurants. RSVP to all of the events through the Imperfect Foods LA Food Waste Week Eventbrite .
Future of Farming Panel
Join Imperfect Foods and some of their local farm partners for a conversation around the future of farming and how old techniques may become new again. Panelists include: Aaron Brookes, Jacobs Farm Del Cabo; Andy, Plenty; and Anastasia Volkova, Regrow. Find more information HERE.
Sip & Spa: Giving New Life to Coffee Grounds Workshop
The Intelligentsia brew class is the perfect entry into the world of specialty coffee. Participants will learn from an expert barista to begin the journey of mastering coffee preparation. But what about the coffee grounds that normally go to waste? We’ve got you covered. Following the brew class, join us as Chelsy Christina from Mindful Goods teaches you how to give new life to your coffee grounds by turning them into exfoliating skincare products! Find more information HERE.
How to: Secure Better Food Access
Join Imperfect Foods and Hollywood Food Coalition to learn about food apartheid and how local LA organizations are helping provide better food access to the community. Find more information HERE.
Composting 101: Tips and Tricks for the Compost Curious
Join Imperfect Foods and LA Compost for an afternoon learning how to begin your composting journey. LA Compost will walk you through the simple process of composting and how you can adapt it to your home, no matter the size. Following the conversation, guests are welcome to stay for a demo to engage with finished compost firsthand through a sifting station, where you’ll be able to sift and take-home compost created in the local community at the Safe Place for Youth Garden and Compost Hub. If you are compost-curious this is the demo for you! Find more information HERE.
Change is in Your Wallet
Join Imperfect Foods and Who Gives A Crap as they dig into one solution to climate change—our wallets. 40% of our food goes to waste. Addressing climate change can feel insurmountable when you take stock of the problem, but small purchases can add up to big changes. How are a direct-to-consumer grocery brand, sustainable toilet paper company, and plant-based creamery creating marketplace solutions to address climate change? Hear how B-Corp™ brands are embracing conscious capitalism to offer consumers easy options to make the right choice and address climate change with their purchasing power. Find more information HERE.
