World Hunger Day and SkipTheDishes Donation to Mealshare World Hunger Day is May 28 and Mealshare and food delivery service, SkipTheDishes, are once again joining forces for the second annual Food For Thought campaign. The campaign’s purpose is to bring more awareness to the problem of food insecurity across Canada. A Food For Thought resource package…
Tag: Food Security
Grain Donates a Ton of Chickpeas Vancouver Food Networks
May 1-9 is Chickpeas Fest in Vancouver – Vancouver Food Networks Celebrate Year of the Pulses Grain, a farmer-direct, socially and sustainably focused dry goods business recently donated 2,000 of chickpeas to Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks. These visually imperfect, but otherwise completely consumable legumes couldn’t be sold through Grain’s regular channels, so the company wanted to…
TRANSFORMING FOOD WASTE WITH “UGLY DUCKLING” DINNER
#NOFOODWASTED: ACCLAIMED LOCAVORE CHEF DAVID GUNAWAN AIMS TO TRANSFORM FOOD WASTE, PERCEPTIONS WITH “UGLY DUCKLING” DINNERS Five-Course Menu Calls Attention to Sustainability Issues, “Trash Cooking” Concept by Showcasing Dishes Featuring Usually Overlooked, Often Discarded Offcuts and Outcasts Royal Dinette Chef/Owner David Gunawan’s waste-not, want-not culinary values come into focus this fall with a duo of Ugly Duckling…
A Better Life Foundation Funds Raised Go To End Hunger
Kudos to all that participated in the 24-hour famine to promote awareness and raise funds for food security in the DTES. On December 19th at 6pm over twenty stellar individual reported to Save On Meats and remained “lock in” until 6am. A full night of workshops were held to help solve food security issues in the community. While the…
Trick or Eat for Canadian Food Security
What is food security? No, it is not being sure your chocolate bars are hidden from your spouse, or being food safe and making sure food is served without contamination, i.e. safely. Food security is defined by the World Food Summit as being achieved “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious…
Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival Connects Communities October 5-19, 2014
Art, Culture, Food and Sustainability – Making Connections, Building Relationships From October 5 until October 19, 2014 Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival focuses on making connections in your communities through a series of events focused on food from foraging to preservation and everything in between. This city-wide festival includes everything from food inspired art exhibits to local…
Community Voice on Food Issues in Hastings Sunrise: A Dialogue in Action
FREE EVENT – Community Voice on Food Issues in Hastings Sunrise: A Dialogue in Action Hastings-Sunrise Community Food Network Location: Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, 2425 Oxford Street Date: Tuesday, October 7 (5-8pm) FREE TICKETS – Dinner and Childminding provided! Onsite the Tacofino Food Truck preparing dinner mostly from recovered food. Description: A town hall style gathering with a panel…
