Rooted In Inc.

10/13/2026

🍂 Fall harvest season is here!

Rooted In Inc. was featured on Local 5 Live sharing this recipe for Local Apple & Cabbage Harvest Sauté

From making the most of seasonal ingredients to reducing food waste, we're showing how a little creativity in the kitchen can go a long way.

At Rooted In, we believe good food should nourish people, not end up in landfills.

Check out the segment and get inspired to make the most of fall's bounty!

https://www.wearegreenbay.com/local5live-recipes/rooted-in-inc-shares-ways-to-enjoy-and-preserve-fall-produce/

(WFRV)- As the weather turns cooler and fall settles in, there’s still plenty of fresh, locally grown produce to enjoy. In this segment, Selena Darrow, president of Rooted In Inc., showcases a reci…

10/08/2026

Today is Donor Advised (DAF Day). If you have a donor-advised fund, you can recommend a grant to Rooted In and put charitable dollars already set aside to work in our community.

Your support helps us recover surplus food, prepare nutritious ready-to-eat meals and strengthen food access through trusted community partners.

A recommendation today can help keep our kitchen moving and our community table growing. Contact Selena Darrow, at [email protected] for more information!

10/08/2026

A huge thank you to every Schreiber Foods volunteer who tied on an apron and joined us in the kitchen last Wed for your yearly Day of Service! 💚

Together, you helped prepare more than 300 nourishing meals to share with neighbors experiencing hunger.

This is what community looks like- showing up, working side by side, and making sure good food reaches the people who need it.

10/06/2026

Wisconsin FoodShare is changing and our community will feel it. New federal requirements expand FoodShare work requirements to adults through age 64 and some parents of children ages 14–17. For some neighbors, that could mean losing food assistance. When benefits decrease, hunger doesn’t. The need shifts to our local food system.

One important opportunity: volunteering can count toward the 80-hour monthly FoodShare work requirement for eligible participants. At Rooted In, you can volunteer while helping recover good food and transform it into nutritious meals for our community.

Need volunteer hours to meet requirements? Reach out and let us know how we can help each other

10/03/2026

Food Waste Prevention Week is wrapping up, but the reason we do this work never stops.

Every year in Wisconsin, 900,000-plus tons (edible food and inedible scraps) goes to waste while 14.5% of individuals in our own community struggle with hunger. That gap is exactly why Rooted In exists.

We recover surplus food. We transform it in our commercial kitchen into nutritious, ready-to-eat meals. We share it with our trusted food-access partners to get it to people who need it most.

It's not about doing more with less. It's about refusing to let good food go to waste when it could be nourishing someone at our table.

10/01/2026

What a summit! Last week, our CEO Selena joined Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Feeding Wisconsin and partners from across the region for the first annual Hunger Summit.

Lawmakers, community leaders, and hunger-relief advocates came together to share frontline experiences, learn from one another, and explore policy and funding solutions to meet the growing demand for food assistance.

At Rooted In Inc., we see the opportunity every day: recover good food, transform it into nourishing meals, and build connections that strengthen our community. Strong partnerships make that work possible.

Thank you for bringing us together to build a future where all people are nourished. 💚

10/01/2026

What a summit! Last week, our CEO Selena joined Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Feeding Wisconsin and partners from across the region for the first annual Hunger Summit.

Lawmakers, community leaders, and hunger-relief advocates came together to share frontline experiences, learn from one another, and explore policy and funding solutions to meet the growing demand for food assistance.

At Rooted In, we see the opportunity every day: recover good food, transform it into nourishing meals, and build connections that strengthen our community. Strong partnerships make that work possible.

Thank you for bringing us together to build a future where all people are nourished. 💚

09/30/2026

Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW), a day to recognize that reducing food loss and waste is essential to building a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system.

At Rooted In, reducing food waste happens every day.

We recover high-quality surplus food, transform it into nourishing meals, and share them through trusted community partners.

When good food goes to waste while our neighbors go hungry, we have a food system problem—and an opportunity to build a better one.

More food on tables. Less food in landfills. A healthier community.

Join us. Donate surplus food, support food recovery, or partner with Rooted In to help turn good food into nourishment for our community.

09/29/2026

Today is Hunger Action Day- the day Feeding America and communities across the country go orange for hunger relief. 🧡

It also falls right in the middle of Food Waste Prevention Week, and for us, those two causes aren't separate at all. Every meal we recover and share is both action against hunger and against waste.

Wear orange today, share why hunger action matters to you, and take one small action- volunteer, donate, or simply spread the word to ensure our neighbors have access to nutrititous food.

We are grateful to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin for their support of our programs!!