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Good Healthy Food for All!www.foodshare.net | @FoodShareTO
Angela ElzingaChengMarch 25, 2015
Vibrant Farmer’s Market/Food Access
Good Healthy Food for All!www.foodshare.net | @FoodShareTO
Good Healthy Food For AllPutting Food FirstPutting Food First
Increase access to and knowledge of vegetables and fruit & do that in such a way that
Increases a community’s control over the processes and decisions involved in a food system – from field to table
Good Healthy Food for All!www.foodshare.net | @FoodShareTO
What is Community Food Security?
Community Food Security: "A situation in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes self-reliance and social justice."Mike Hamm and Anne Bellows
Good Healthy Food for All!www.foodshare.net | @FoodShareTO
FoodShare Values
1) Universal Programs - Solutions that everyone can access – non-stigmatized
2) Built from the ground up – community leadership and assets
3) Multi –faceted – meet more than one goal
4) Partnership Based
a) Between FoodShare and local community, organizations and institutions and
b) A partnership between a mobilized community and the government.
Good Healthy Food for All!www.foodshare.net | @FoodShareTO
FoodShare’s Mobile Bus a donated WheelTrans Bus from TTC
Good Healthy Food for All!www.foodshare.net | @FoodShareTO
Through the Good Food Box, Mobile and Good Food Markets, our delivery for fresh vegetables and fruit to 250 Student Nutrition and community programs , 34% sourced
from Ontario, FoodShare’s non-profit Field to Table Community Hub sold $2,000,000 of fresh produce last year.
Good Healthy Food for All!www.foodshare.net | @FoodShareTO
Farming and Market Gardens
in the city•Bendale Technical Institute•Eastdale Collegiate•Sunshine Market Garden