The Regional District of North Okanagan has provided funding to support the building of a strong food-recovery network with FoodMesh.
FoodMesh is building a food recovery network of North Okanagan-based businesses, charities, and farmers to connect those with surplus food quickly and efficiently to those in the region who need it.
Thank you to our sponsor
Joining the network is completely free.
All you need to do is complete a quick form, and we’ll take care of the rest.
When you’re part of the network, you can take advantage of the following services:
For your wholesale volumes of surplus food, our online B2B Marketplace will connect you to organizations to take that food. You can choose to sell it at a reduced cost or donate it.
Sign up if you’re a:
Food business of any kind
Hunger-relief organization
If you are a grocery retailer, we can help you significantly reduce your daily food waste by diverting the maximum volume of your unsalable food to local hunger-relief organizations and hobby farmers.
Sign up if you’re a:
Grocery retailer
Hunger-relief organization
Hobby farmer
This interactive map shows a directory of organizations in North Okanagan that are known to be participating in food recovery, by either donating their unsold food or rescuing surplus food. Click on the icon on the map to learn more about the organization.
Those labeled ‘FoodMesh verified’ are working with us, either on our Marketplace or through Managed Diversion Services. To see the impact these organizations are having, select ‘Impact Metrics’ on the left-hand menu.
We are offering five retailers free access to our managed retail food diversion service. We can help you maximize the volume of your unsold food going to people who need it most in your local community, at no cost to you.
We are also offering five hunger-relief organizations exclusive access to FoodMesh’s custom-built Donation Tracking app, so you can keep track of the volume of food you are receiving from all of your donors, to help with your reporting and grant-writing processes.
There are a lot of organizations in the North Okanagan that are doing outstanding work to keep surplus food out of waste streams. Meet some of them here:
Find out how this extraordinary charity turns rescued food into connections and support for its clientele
This outstanding organization turns unwanted vegetables into a dried vegetable soup mix for humanitarian aid and Christian missions overseas.
Enactus Okanagan College students came up with the brilliant idea of rescuing aesthetically imperfect local apples, and turning them into nutritious apple chips to donate to school
This Okanagan-based business turns ugly produce destined to waste streams into delicious sauces and condiments.
