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Turning recovered food into restaurant-quality meals for people in need

How A Better Life Foundation uses recovered food to create better lives for residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside...

22 June, 2022

Watch now! Cooking class with Theresa Contois using rescued food

It's Stop Food Waste Day - FoodMesh's favourite day of the year! To mark this important day, see how the brilliant Theresa Contois from Cedar Feast House Catering turns food she rescued from local retailers into a delicious beef bourguignon. This event is jam-packed full...

27 April, 2022

North Okanagan wants higher rates to keep commercial food waste away from landfills

Beginning next year it will cost a lot more for large grocers and food processors to bring food waste to RDNO landfills. Global News reports on how FoodMesh can help those retailers divert their unsalable food away from landfill to charities first, farmers second. ...

23 April, 2022

How Daiya is helping people and the planet, one donation at a time

This Earth Day, we are shining the spotlight on Daiya, and how their collaboration with FoodMesh is helping them support both the environment and their local communities ...

21 April, 2022

FoodMesh network now rescuing 1 million meals per month

It's official. The organizations we work with are collectively rescuing the equivalent of 1 million meals every month, through both the Retail Food Recovery Program and B2B Marketplace. ...

13 April, 2022

Loaves and Fishes/FoodMesh continue to help those in need

WestCentralOnline reports on the extraordinary impact Loaves and Fishes' work with FoodMesh has had on people in Kindersley and surrounding communities...

08 April, 2022

Do you have animals to feed?

Find out how you can get a supply of fresh food donations from your local retailer to use as animal feed (they come highly recommended by Ernest, the pot-bellied pig)...

06 April, 2022

Notice something different about our impact metrics?

We have recently updated our methodology to more closely align FoodMesh with North American standards and increase the accuracy of our impact metrics. Here's what's different. ...

05 April, 2022

Join us on April 27 to mark Stop Food Waste Day

Attend a virtual cooking class using nothing but rescued food with local acclaimed chef, Theresa Contois from Cedar Feast House Catering...

25 March, 2022

Maplewood Farm’s animals mow down on Save-On-Foods castoffs (and they love it!)

When its unsalable produce is no longer suitable for human consumption, Park & Tilford's Save-On-Foods boxes it up and shares it with local Maplewood Farm - part of its larger effort to ensure none of its unsold food ends up in the landfill. North Shore...

20 March, 2022

How Save-On-Foods is helping North Vancouver farm animals live long and healthy lives

Maplewood Farm's 76 animals now get to enjoy fresh produce from its local Save-On-Foods, thanks to this new partnership...

15 March, 2022

Fraser Valley Regional District hosting food waste bylaw webinar

The Abbotsford News reports on FoodMesh's collaboration with the regional district to help Fraser Valley-based businesses find new uses for their unsold food and compostable organics. ...

15 March, 2022

Food recovery program helps support Creston Food Bank and reduce waste

Creston Valley Advance reports on how FoodMesh's Retail Food Recovery Program has helped Creston Food Bank and Save-On-Foods save thousands of kilograms of food from the landfill...

14 March, 2022

FoodMesh and the Fraser Valley Regional District Food Recovery Network divert 2.9 million KG food away from landfill

FoodMesh has teamed up with the Fraser Valley Regional District to build a network of organizations that can safely and quickly match those with surplus food with others that need it....

08 March, 2022

Tell us how we’re doing! 

If you're working with us on the Retail Food Recovery Program, we want to hear from you! What are we doing well? What’s not working so well? Do you have suggestions for things we could be doing better?...

02 March, 2022

Meet 8 service providers that can help you put your unsold food and organics to good use

To help you prepare for the region's waste sorting by-law, join this webinar on March 17 to hear about alternate uses for your food 'waste'...

24 February, 2022

Why businesses in the Fraser Valley are being asked to “Sort It Out”

Education on the FVRD food waste bylaw starts this year with food businesses...

16 February, 2022

How donations for 25 turned into meals for 700

When the Launching Pad Addiction Rehabilitation Society started working with FoodMesh, it was to collect the food that Fresh St. Market in South Surrey was unable to sell for its 25 residents. Their collaboration has grown and is now feeding between 500 and 700 people a...

02 February, 2022

How FoodMesh is using Salesforce to help organizations waste less and feed more

Traction on Demand tells the story of how they helped us to scale our food recovery platform to build and service Canada’s largest online ecosystem of food suppliers, hunger-relief organizations and farmers....

31 January, 2022

A day with Friends in Need Food Bank

Nikki takes us behind the scenes of an organization that has rescued the equivalent of more than 1 million meals...

28 January, 2022