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Get to know: Surindra Sugrim

Meet Surindra, FoodMesh's Community Engagement Manager. Surindra works closely with our charity partners, matching them to stores participating in our Retail Food Recovery Program....

14 June, 2021

South Surrey charity keeps 158,000 kg of edible food out of landfill every year

The Surrey Now-Leader tells the story of what the Launching Pad Addiction Rehabilitation Society has been able to do with the donations they receive through the Retail Food Recovery Program...

10 June, 2021

An interview with Jessica Regan

The Lettuce Harvest Foundation speaks to our CEO and Co-Founder to discuss FoodMesh, opportunities for food systems and how they have been impacted by COVID-19....

09 June, 2021

World Food Safety Day

We all play a critical role in ensuring that food stays safe at every stage of the food chain. For World Food Safety Day 2021, here are some resources to help keep your food safe. ...

07 June, 2021

Phoenix partners with FoodMesh and Buy-Low Foods to divert food to charitable programs

Phoenix Society announces a partnership with FoodMesh that will provide a regular and reliable supply of fresh food donations from Buy-Low Foods, to help serve nutritious food to those living in recovery, poverty and homelessness....

07 June, 2021

Food is medicine

Surindra takes us behind the scenes with Cedar Feast House Catering and explores how the donations it receives from IGA helps some of Vancouver's most vulnerable communities...

21 May, 2021

Funding helps people facing food insecurity

FoodMesh has been retained to be the implementation partner for BC Food Banks' Emergency Food Purchasing Program over the next 3 years....

07 May, 2021

8 ways we can reduce food waste at home

For Stop Food Waste Day, the FoodMesh team shared some of their top tips for reducing food waste at home. ...

28 April, 2021

From plant to plate: The journey of a pepper

To mark Stop Food Waste Day 2021, Laura follows the journey a pepper takes to get to our plates and looks at where the waste typically occurs along the way...

27 April, 2021

A day with CityReach Care Society

Megan gives a sneak peek into how CityReach Care Society is responding to the 1000% growth in their food bank operations since the outbreak of COVID-19...

01 April, 2021

Food no longer suitable for human consumption finds a happy home

Meet George and Ernest, two happy recipients of some of the inedible food donations that were diverted through the Retail Food Recovery Program....

19 March, 2021

Save-On-Foods adds its newest Chilliwack location to its zero food-waste promise

Save-On-Foods’ fourth Chilliwack location is diverting 100% of its unsalable food to charitable organizations through FoodMesh's Retail Food Recovery Program....

18 March, 2021

New Chilliwack Save-On-Foods location signs on to FoodMesh partnership

The Chilliwack Progress features Save-On-Foods new Cottonwood Centre store, which has become the fourth location in Chilliwack to partner with FoodMesh...

18 March, 2021

A day with Salvation Army Boundless

Laura takes us behind the scenes at Salvation Army Boundless, and what they are able to do with the food donations they receive from Urban Fare stores across downtown Vancouver...

04 March, 2021

Richmond food recovery program smashes expectations

Collaboration between the City of Richmond and FoodMesh sees 644,800 meals created for local residents...

02 March, 2021

A day with Cloverdale Community Kitchen

Aiko takes us behind the scenes at Cloverdale Community Kitchen, which receives food donations through the Retail Food Recovery Program...

23 February, 2021

FoodMesh taking its emergency food recovery project nationwide

The Peace Arch News reports on a new project FoodMesh is leading to take on food security challenges and food waste across Canada...

11 August, 2020

Emergency food distribution platform to get food to where it is needed most

In partnership with FoodMesh, a national consortium including government and organizations from the food, technology and non-profit sectors is leading the charge to address the impacts of COVID-19 on the food supply chain in Canada....

06 August, 2020

Emergency food distribution platform underway

Through the first collaboration of its kind, a consortium of key stakeholders from the government and the food, technology, transportation and non-profit sectors are banding together to use technology to solve some of the catastrophic impacts of COVID-19....

06 August, 2020

Almost 500,000 kgs of perishable food distributed from Maple Ridge food bank facility

The Maple Ridge-Pit Meadows News shines a light on the donations the Friends In Need Food Bank has received in part by the Retail Food Recovery Program...

09 June, 2020