By CBC News, April 24, 2016
Video done to celebrate 25th anniversary of Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council
Three Grade 12 students from Clavet passionate about food turned their experience on the farm into a music video to battle food waste in the province.
In the video dubbed Don’t Waste It Cause We Grow It, Kaitlyn Dilsner, Taryn Heidebrecht, and Lauren Palmer made a music video to the tune of an LMFAO song with wonderful results.
“We’re all farm kids. We’re all raised on farms,” Heidebrecht told CBC Radio’s Saskatchewan Weekend. “Part of our choice of our song was that [it] could reach a younger audience without sounding preachy.”
The three students produced the video after they got a call to action from the Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the council asked students from all across the province to make a 30-second video about preventing food waste.
“Since we’re all from a rural community, we have really seen first-hand how food waste affects everybody — not only the consumer,” Palmer said. “We know how much work goes into growing and raising food. So that really spoke to us to make a video for this issue.”
It appears their first-hand experience paid off, as the video won them first place in the Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Councils short video competition.
“To win first place in something like this is really amazing because it reaches more people,” Heidebrecht said. “To get the message out, I think that’s really important.”
It’s a message Dilsner said she doesn’t take for granted.
“Since we’ve raised them, we know how much work is put into the animals,” she said. “We get up every morning and feed them, and in the spring time watch them be born and stuff,” she said.