

How One Mum’s Idea is Fighting Food Waste and Building Community – Tianda from uForage
5 snips Jul 10, 2025
Join an inspiring discussion with Tianda, a busy mum who founded an innovative app to tackle food waste and improve community food sharing. She shares how local abundance sparked her idea and the challenges of food insecurity. Discover the app's user-friendly features, including categories for wild and surplus food. Learn about her plans to expand educational resources and the importance of building resilient food networks. Tianda's journey is a heartfelt call to action for sustainable practices and community engagement.
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From Backyard Needs To uForage Idea
- Tianda grew up without gardening skills and learned to grow food later while raising four children.
- A neighbour offering a lettuce during COVID and abundant local mango trees inspired her to build uForage to connect community food sources.
Digital Links Unlock Offline Food Networks
- Local social networks can massively increase food access during shocks like floods and supply shortages.
- Building digital connections helps people move offline to swap, forage, and share food resources.
Turn App Matches Into Real Relationships
- Use apps to discover local food but then meet and share knowledge in person to strengthen resilience.
- Encourage neighbours to exchange produce, skills, and contact details to form practical food networks.