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Grants available for BC schools to foster food literacy in their school communities

Over the past number of years there has been a significant growth of interest in and support for healthy eating and food literacy activities in schools communities across BC. This includes initiatives around nutrition education, school gardens, cooking activities, Farm to School salad bars and much more. Food literacy is defined as having the knowledge, […]

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Think, Eat, Vote Campaign

Food Secure Canada and its partners are organizing Eat Think Vote to make food an election issue and engage citizens and candidates about creating a national food policy. They invite all Canadians to sign a petition asking for a national food policy.  The Eat Think Vote campaign will be asking for: zero hunger in Canada (food insecurity affects nearly 4 […]

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FoodPrint Challenge Results

Over the course of the challenge, participants wasted a total of 64 kilograms of food, with a daily household average of 302grams.  This is equivalent to throwing out three or four perfectly good apples every day.  Participants commented that they were not aware of how much food they waste. In Canada, an average family of four […]

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Salmon in the Kitchen

If you love eating salmon but aren’t too sure about preparing it yourself, then you should sign up for the Salmon in the Kitchen workshops that Living Oceans is hosting this summer in Vancouver. You’ll get a hands-on opportunity to cook, fillet and can fresh salmon under the guidance of expert chefs. All the salmon […]

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Food Rescue: What We’ve Learned & Where We’re Going

On June 4, the Scaling Up Food Rescue Project’s Rubina Jamal and Scott Rowe held a working conference to present and then discuss findings that they gleaned over the past 12 months. The audience was welcomed by the District’s Mayor Richard Walton and took advantage of this open forum to ask questions and come up […]

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Food Rescue Project Shares Stories

On June 4th the Table Matters’ Scaling Up Food Rescue Project hosted an event with 50 participants at the District of North Vancouver to share what they had learned over the past year.  The event set the stage for ongoing dialogue between food industry providers, Community Service Organizations, Elected Officials and others who share a common […]

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District of West Vancouver- Hen Bylaw Process

Please provide your input to the West Vancouver survey. Until 2008, the District of West Vancouver allowed the keeping of backyard chickens (hens only). Since 2008, the keeping of backyard chickens has been prohibited. At a recent Council Meeting, some members of the community made a request to keep chickens (hens only) in their backyards. […]

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Food Waste Reduction a Global Issue

While fighting hunger and reducing food waste are goals shared by many developing countries, Tanzania is taking steps unlike any other to address its waste and spoilage problems, as Rachel Cernansky writes in The New York Times’s Fixes column. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/04/whats-working-tanzania-harvest-corn_n_7204050.html  

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Food Rescue News

Reaching out to the community, Rubina and Scott took part in a “Hope Filled” Saturday afternoon at St. Clement’s Church on April 11. The North Vancouver Anglican and Lutheran Churches Spirituality and Eco-Social Justice working group organized four sessions over four months at four different churches to better understand the impact of land, energy, water […]

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North Shore Food Connections

Working in tandem is the key to success, proving once again that the end product can turn out to be many times greater than the sum of each part. A relay organized by the Scaling Up Food Rescue Project and involving 4 teams on Feb 11 synchronized their efforts and produced a satisfying lunch for […]