271: Fighting Food Waste and Growing Fast, With Ben Chesler of Imperfect Foods
Ben Simon showed up at his college classmate Ben Chesler’s door with a giant, ugly sweet potato, plopped it down in front of him, and declared, “This is the future.” Chesler believed him.
Simon had visited multiple farms in California, and discovered that 20% of the state’s produce was being thrown…
Ben Chesler, Co-Founder of Imperfect Foods
Ben Chesler has been a social entrepreneur since before he really knew what the words meant. He just liked solving problems. While in high school he co-founded a non-profit that went on to raise $100,000+ to combat the child sex trade. In college, he started the Food Recovery Network to bridge th…
Episode 014: Save $ and the Planet with Imperfect Produce w/ guest Evan Hazelett
Imperfect Produce tackles one of America’s biggest sources of food waste: the farm, where 20% of fresh fruits and vegetables are thrown away because of minor cosmetic deficiencies.
ABOUT IMPERFECT PRODUCE:
Imperfect was started by three national leaders in food waste. The Bens — Ben Chesler and …
Ben Simon & Evan Hazelett
TRANSCIPT
Speaker 1:Method to the madness is next.
Speaker 2:You are listening to method to the madness, a biweekly public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators I have in the studio with me today, [00:00:30] Ben Simon, the CEO and cofounder of imperfect and Evan Hayslett…
"Can We Innovate Our Way Out of Global Hunger, Part 2"
A twenty pound sweet potato may not sound like a life-changing piece of produce, but it was for Ben Chesler. He, along with Ben Simon, launched Imperfect Foods, which takes ugly, misshapen, or weird looking fruits and veggies that would go to waste - and delivers them to your home. Over the last…
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