The Shocking Truth About Produce Waste In America & Fixing The Broken Food Supply Chain Ft. Melissa Ackerman of Planet Harvest
The Bossticks
Dear Media
4.4 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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#948: Join us as we sit down with Melissa Ackerman – Founder & CEO of Planet Harvest, a mission-driven, for-profit company focused on moving more fresh produce from farms to families. Planet Harvest turns excess & available produce into purpose-built food solutions that reduce waste, strengthen farm economics, & deliver measurable impact. In this episode, Melissa shared the significant produce waste in the U.S., how Planet Harvest is working to reshape supply chains by purchasing excess produce, creating impact-driven food boxes, & why embracing "imperfect" produce is essential to supporting farmers & reducing food waste.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.7 | She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. |
| 0:07.5 | Fantastic. |
| 0:08.5 | And he's a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:10.8 | A very smart cookie. |
| 0:12.2 | And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. |
| 0:16.3 | Get ready for some major realness. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. |
| 0:21.8 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:24.7 | Melissa Ackerman is the founder and CEO of Planet Harvest, a profit for purchase company |
| 0:30.9 | redefining how the country sources, distributes, and consumes fresh produce. |
| 0:36.6 | So on this episode, we learned all about Whole Harvest, |
| 0:39.8 | a model that delivers scalable, sustainable solutions to reduce food waste, |
| 0:44.3 | support the farmers, and increase access to nourishing produce. |
| 0:48.1 | I found this episode fascinating. |
| 0:50.5 | With that, let's welcome Melissa of Planet Harvest to the show. |
| 0:54.8 | This is the skinny confidential, him and her. |
| 0:59.4 | Melissa, what would shock everyone about the produce in America? |
| 1:05.1 | I think a lot of people don't even know where their produce comes from. |
| 1:07.7 | They don't realize that it's not from a local farmer or from somebody that's |
| 1:11.2 | really close to them. It's grown 60% of our lettuce is grown in California, about an hour from |
| 1:17.0 | San Francisco. And I think the second thing that would shock them is also how much produce is left in the |
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