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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

The Launching Pad Addiction Rehabilitation Society's partnership with FoodMesh has grown from feeding 25 residents to 700 community members. Find out how. ...

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

How Metro Vancouver keeps food out of the landfill

The problem of food waste and what Metro Vancouver is doing to keep it out of the landfill...

17 January, 2022

A small store with a big impact

How Buy-Low Foods in Boyle, AB turned things around for its local food bank...

12 January, 2022

1 million meals donated to people in need across BC, AB and SK

The Buy-Low Foods, Nesters Market, AG Foods and Meinhardt Fine Foods stores we work with have collectively rescued more than 1 million meals since they started working with FoodMesh in May 2021. ...

05 January, 2022

7 tips for reducing festive food waste

A disproportionate amount of food is wasted at the best of times, but over the holiday season, that number increases by around 25%. Use these tips to reduce your festive food waste footprint this year....

21 December, 2021

Melfort Food Bank hoping to reach more people in wider area

This Saskatchewan-based food bank is seeing a sharp decline in the volume of food people are donating to them. Their partnership with FoodMesh has helped to increase their access to food donations, but they are in need of more. NorthEastNow reports...

14 December, 2021

Get to know: James Rowe

Meet James, FoodMesh's Head of Product. When he's not developing new product and service solutions to address customer problems, you may find him camping or enjoying some Japanese food....

13 December, 2021

Water the wilt away 🥬

Perk up your wilted leafy greens by soaking them in a bowl of cold water...

08 December, 2021

Get to know: Megan Czerpak

Meet Megan, FoodMesh's Head of Communications. When she's not sharing stories about the impact of the amazing organizations FoodMesh works with, you'll probably find her dancing in the kitchen with her kids or trying to paint (another piece of) rescued furniture bright turquoise. ...

03 December, 2021

Matching unsold food with organizations that are hungry for it

Find out how the Emergency Food Distribution Network, which was led by FoodMesh, has helped increase the number of rescued meals going to feed Canada's hungry and food insecure ...

01 December, 2021

Food banks across B.C. co-ordinate to cover needs as flooding strains supply chain

CBC reports on how Richmond Food Bank's partnership with FoodMesh has enabled it to increase its perishable food offerings from 30% to 70%...

30 November, 2021