Matriark Foods

Creating Access From Excess

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About This Episode

Anna Hammond is the Founder and CEO of Matriark Foods, a social and environmental impact food business that upcycles farm surplus and fresh-cut remnants into healthy, shelf-stable vegetable products for institutional foodservice.  Matriark is building a circular food future, creating products that solve for inefficiencies in the supply chain while combating climate change and providing greater access to healthy food—at scale.

Matriark has been part of the Food Systems 6 accelerator program, the Huhtamaki Global Circular Economy Accelerator program, the Foodbuy Accelerator program for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses, and in 2022, won the peer-selected investment for the Kroger Zero Waste Zero Hunger Accelerator program powered by VilCap.

Before Matriark, Hammond spent 25 years as a nonprofit leader, most recently as ED for The Sylvia Center, where she developed and implemented an evidence-based food and nutrition education programs for teens and families in NYC public housing community centers. She and her team grew the program from 300 to more than 25,000 students, reducing health disparities in underserved communities and empowering the next generation to lead healthier lives.  Hammond is a board member of the Upcycled Food Association, and serves as an advisor to Heroic Food, a nonprofit that trains military veterans for careers in sustainable farming and food entrepreneurship.