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Spotlight on: Goodly Foods

Find out how this organization is helping people and planet through their line of delicious soups and stews...

22 March, 2023

How Fresh St. Market’s partnership with Surrey-based charity is changing peoples’ lives

Since Fresh. St Market in Fleetwood Park Village partnered with VISHWA, it has helped provide approximately 50,230 meals to people as a result, some as far afield as Boston Bar....

13 March, 2023

Announcing the winners of the Grocery & Specialty Food West Upcycler Showcase draw!

Congratulations to the five upcyclers who will be showcasing their products at Canada's biggest grocery trade show...

08 March, 2023

Win the chance to showcase your upcycled food products at Grocery & Specialty Food West 2023

FoodMesh is sponsoring five BC-based food upcyclers to showcase their products at Canada's biggest grocery trade show as part of our work to reduce food waste in Metro Vancouver...

13 February, 2023

Get to know: Dheeraj Bharat Sethi

Meet Dheeraj, FoodMesh's Full Stack Developer and the newest addition to the team. ...

10 February, 2023

Years of supply chain hiccups open doors for Canadian startups

The Globe and Mail report on how FoodMesh is helping to reduce waste in the food supply chain...

08 February, 2023

Regional District of North Okanagan appoints FoodMesh to help reduce food waste in the region

FoodMesh is one of a handful of Regional District of North Okanagan 2023 spring ReTHINK Waste Grant recipients. The Vernon Morning Star reports...

06 February, 2023

Spotlight on: Luv the Grub

This impressive Metro Vancouver-based upcycler rescues second-grade produce from farms and produce markets and transforms it into an array of delicious chutneys and spreads...

23 January, 2023

Spotlight on: Chef TJ Conwi

Introducing the man behind Vancouver's first chef-run surplus food hub...

16 January, 2023

Spotlight on: Trendi

Meet the company that is using agricultural robotics to turn excess food from farms and production facilities into powders and purees...

09 January, 2023

4 steps your restaurant can take to reduce its food waste footprint

Learn about the economic, environmental and social cost of food waste, and 4 things your restaurant can do about it...

03 January, 2023

Moving meals to the masses

How FoodMesh’s Marketplace is helping Loaves & Fishes Food Bank ‘move more food, more efficiently, to a lot more people’...

12 December, 2022

Spotlight on: ReCruz Produce

Meet the organization rescuing and repurposing the produce that is left behind when it is processed to get the perfect tomato slice or lettuce shell....

05 December, 2022

Spotlight on: Susgrainable

See how Susgrainable is turning brewery by-products into healthy baking mixes and treats, in the first part of a new series that profiles innovative solutions to the food waste problem in Metro Vancouver...

21 November, 2022

IGA of BC donates 1 million meals to vulnerable people in our communities

IGA of BC has donated the equivalent of 1 million meals to 160 hunger-relief organizations since its partnership with FoodMesh began in April 2020. ...

02 November, 2022

Fresh St. Market donates 1 million meals to people in need

Since FoodMesh and Fresh St. Market joined forces in April 2020, its seven stores have collectively donated the equivalent of 1 million meals to 117 charities across the province...

11 October, 2022

How the circular economy can make the world better

In the latest issue of 'Make The World Better' magazine, which shines a light on how the circular economy is writing a new ending for waste, Jessica Regan talks about how organizations wanting to take a stand against food waste can get started....

04 October, 2022

The problem of food waste, and what FoodMesh is doing about it

Jessica Regan speaks to Stirling Faux on the Weekend Mornings show about the role FoodMesh is playing to help solve the enormous problem of food waste...

01 October, 2022

Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

Here's why fighting food waste should be at the top of your sustainability agenda...

29 September, 2022

Most Canadians worry about surging grocery bill, nearly half want help cutting waste: Survey

In this Vancouver Sun story, Jessica Regan talks about how FoodMesh is trying to change peoples' perception that unsalable food is no longer edible...

28 September, 2022