Kimberly's Adventures

I dedicate my posting of this video to friends at Anna in Minneapolis, everyone who lived in the Grand Aspirations house since Joey and Andrew, and the greater community of dumpster divers I know or have yet to meet.

Here at the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store there is a bin in which produce that has reached an expedited deterioration (broken chard leaves, bruised avocados, severely browning bananas) is placed and marked down to half price. If it does not sell, at the end of the day it is thrown in the pig feed bucket and us apprentices bring it to the pigs who enjoy the bounty of our human waste stream. 

The caption reads:

Around 40 percent of the food we produce in the U.S. gets tossed; but that’s not to say a lot of it isn’t still edible. Here’s the story of a father who feeds his family with perfectly good finds from dumpsters behind Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods (and admits that most of his newborn baby’s molecules probably originate from dumpster food). Join us as we dumpster dive with him and make breakfast from the treasures we find: