Category: Food

Kitchen composting made easy

11/17/2019

Swing by Roche Brothers in Wellesley on Saturday, November 23rd from 10am-2pm to learn about kitchen composting and the Wellesley RDF's Food Waste Program. Volunteers from Sustainable Wellesley will be on hand to demo the process and answer all of your questions. In addition, from 1pm on Leslie Richman zero-waste lifestyle coach will also be there to answer additional questions you might have about plastic-reduced and plastic-free grocery shopping and more!

Skip the Straw

7/8/2019

Wellesley Skips the Straw

Why the buzz? The average straw is sipped for only 20 minutes but it can take over 200 years to break down. Straws are very lightweight and often wind up in our oceans and on our beaches where they are a danger to marine life. Plastics never biodegrade — they just break into smaller and smaller pieces.

Sustainable Wellesley is encouraging local restaurants to be part of the #SkipTheStraw Initiative and we need your help asking local managers to re-evaluate their use of plastic straws.

This is not a pipe dream! The city of Seattle is now straw-less and some local restaurants have already switched so swing by and say thanks to the folks at CocoBeet, The Local, and Quebrada Bakery. If you know of more please email us.

Food Recovery at Wellesley Middle School

6/10/2019

Matt Delaney Food Services Manager, Wellesley Public School. Champion of Food Recover Program

The plan to launch the food recovery trial at the Middle School came from the Wellesley Reduce, Reuse, Recycle working group and the Wellesley Green Schools committee during a meeting on Feb 26th. At that meeting, Matt Delaney, the Food Services Director of the Wellesley Schools for Whitson’s Culinary Group, recounted a food recovery program that was in place at Disney World when he was employed there.

Wellesley Middle School has implemented a system that allows them to collect unused food and bring it to a local food pantry. The program involves bagging and freezing excess food and redistributing it.

Shout out to Land's Sake Farm

6/1/2019

Land's Sake Farm image.

Just down the street is Land’s Sake Farm, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has been connecting people to their local ecology in Weston, MA since 1980. Their focus is tri-fold: environmental education programs, food donation programs, and sustainable land management. Education programs run year-round and are for people of all ages, ranging from tomato canning workshops to week-long summer camps to maple sugaring, and after-school programs. These community-building programs are focused on connecting people to each other, as well as to the land around them.

Only a few spots left! Compost your Food Waste

5/7/2019

Composting Starter kit

Stop throwing away all of your food waste. Instead, EASILY turn it into bio gas and compost. The Town Of Wellesley will actually do it for you! There are only a few spots available left in the Town’s Food Waste Program.

Get your free starter kit (paid for by DEP grants) by clicking here. It includes a counter top bucket, compostable bag liners, and a container for transporting your food waste to the RDF.

What's in your wine?

2/13/2019

What's really in your wine?

Many of us care about the what we eat and how our food is sourced, but have you considered what is in your wine?

Wellesley resident, mom, chef and the friendly face at the Wellesley Farmers’ Market pick up spot for Farmers’ to You, Janine Malone, wondered the same. After doing some research, she learned and loved the idea of drinking clean-crafted wine that is organic or biodynamic, vegan and bottled consciously, with no chemicals or added sugar. She now sells a variety of these wines, all from small family vineyards that hand picked their grapes.

Contact her for more information. These are the wines folks have tasted at two recent Sustainable Wellesley events – Taste the Future; and Conversation with The Candidates and Community Dinner.

Cheers!

In the market for a new oven? Taste the future...

1/31/2019

Sustainable Wellesy Chef

Earlier this month a full house gathered for the Sustainable Wellesley's Taste the Future event at Jarvis Appliances where we sampled delicious food and clean wine, watched cooking demos on an induction stove, and learned more about the ways to move off of dangerous gas appliances.

Huge thanks to Wellesley Public Media for covering the event. For those that missed it or want to learn more watch it here

Planning an Event?

10/8/2018

Smart Event Guide

No matter if it is big or small; for fun, work, or school, Wellesley Green Schools has you covered with this updated Smart Event Guide 2018. Save time, money and resources. Check it out, and share it; you will be glad you did.

Kitchen composting made easy

Skip the Straw

Food Recovery at Wellesley Middle School

Shout out to Land's Sake Farm

Only a few spots left! Compost your Food Waste

What's in your wine?

In the market for a new oven? Taste the future...

Planning an Event?

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