This food waste saying – Start Small and Finish It All  - was taught to my daughter when she was an outdoor education instructor between 2013 and 2014 in Occidental, Calif.

Instructors learn how to teach basic food safety in one 50-minute session with the help of a video, power point presentation and word search.

Chef Weiner introduces instructors to the complicated ideas of teaching greenhouse gases associated with food’s carbon footprint.

Chef Adam Weiner challenges classes by instructing students to cook a certain food with no recipe and sometimes the wrong equipment required for execution. His response to the challenge: “Get it done.”

Chef Adam Weiner and mentor Chef Jesse Cool broaden the concept of buying local food to include selecting food that is freshly grown locally from known farms with greater biodiversity and sustainability.