FoodMesh to lead national effort to cut household food waste
Learn more about FoodMesh's plans for the globally-recognized behaviour change campaign, Love Food Hate Waste...
04 July, 2025
Business spotlights
How IGA of BC turns its surplus food into 2 million meals of impact
IGA of BC has hit the milestone of 2 million meals donated. Meet some of the organizations using its unsold food to help the growing number of Canadians facing food insecurity....
03 July, 2025
From city store to farm: How Save-On-Foods and FoodMesh closed the urban food waste loop
Find out how Save-On-Foods is raising the bar for food recovery by finding innovative ways to ensure all unsold food—edible or not—goes to its highest and best use....
24 June, 2025
Buy-Low Foods hits milestone of 2 million meals donated!
In donating its unsold food to local charities, Buy-Low Foods is providing hunger-relief organizations with a regular and reliable supply of fresh food donations. ...
27 May, 2025
Quality Foods hits milestone of 2 million meals donated!
In donating its unsold food to local charities, Quality Foods is providing hunger-relief organizations with a regular and reliable supply of fresh food donations. ...
05 December, 2024
Georgia Main staff roll up their sleeves to support the Immigrant Link Centre Society
To mark Hunger Action Month, the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, store staff see firsthand the impact of their food donations on the community....
16 October, 2024
Local program saves almost 300,000 kg of edible food in just over a year
FoodMesh's project to build a food recovery network in the North Okanagan has seen almost 0.3 tonnes of food kept out of the landfills. Vernon Matters reports. ...
12 September, 2024
Safeway Vernon partners with FoodMesh to significantly reduce its food waste and support the community
Find out how FoodMesh has helped this store significantly reduce its organic waste output to the point of being almost "irrelevant"...
02 July, 2024
Food rescue in Surrey: ‘Just because you can’t sell it doesn’t mean it’s not good food’
Surrey Now-Leader reports on how FoodMesh connects two Fresh St. Market stores in Surrey with charities that help feed the hungry...
21 May, 2024
Spotlight on: Fraser Valley Gleaners
This outstanding organization rescues fresh produce and turns it into soup mixes to feed starving and impoverished children all around the world. Find out how they do it. ...
16 May, 2024
BC organizations donate unsold food from grocery stores
SFU's The Peak spoke to FoodMesh to share insight on the problem of food waste, and what IGA of BC and Fresh St. Market is doing about it....
15 May, 2024
FoodMesh network hits 50 million meals rescued milestone
Since FoodMesh opened its doors in 2017, the organizations we work with have diverted a staggering volume food away from waste streams, and onto the plates of people in our community who need it. ...
02 May, 2024
IGA helps FoodMesh program feed the hungry in the Okanagan
Kelowna's Castanet reports...
30 April, 2024
IGA partners with Okanagan food banks to provide meals
Kelowna Capital News reports....
25 April, 2024
Georgia Main Food Group reaches food donation milestone
B.C. company has partnered with FoodMesh to support local charities since 2020. Canadian Grocer reports. ...
25 April, 2024
IGA partners with Okanagan food banks to provide meals
Grocery stores from Penticton to Kelowna are helping those facing food insecurity. Penticton Western News reports. ...
25 April, 2024
Fresh St. Market hits milestone of 2 million meals donated!
In donating its unsold food to local charities, Fresh St. Market is providing hunger-relief organizations with a regular and reliable supply of fresh food donations. ...
23 April, 2024
FoodMesh program matching perishable food to those in need hits 3.5 million meals donated from IGA and Fresh St. Market stores in B.C.
Over 220 B.C. charities are distributing produce, meats, and dairy directly from grocers...
23 April, 2024