Spotlight on: North Okanagan Valley Gleaners
This outstanding organization turns unwanted vegetables into a dried vegetable soup mix for humanitarian aid and Christian missions overseas....
28 August, 2023
Business spotlights
Spotlight on: Unusually Good
Enactus Okanagan College students came up with the brilliant idea of rescuing aesthetically imperfect local apples, and turning them into nutritious apple chips to donate to schools, food banks, and developing countries....
21 August, 2023
How Save-On-Foods surpassed its food waste reduction goals and set a new standard for sustainability in the grocery industry
And supports over 3,000 hunger-relief organizations and hobby farmers in the process....
16 August, 2023
Spotlight on: Slow Bottled Sunday
This Okanagan-based business turns ugly produce destined to waste streams into delicious sauces and condiments....
02 August, 2023
Watch now! Find alternate uses for your offcuts and unsalable food
Meet 5 solution providers that can help food manufacturers and processors in Metro Vancouver keep their surplus food out of waste streams. ...
17 May, 2023
FoodMesh and Choices Markets team up to donate unsold food to British Columbians in need
New food donation program diverting edible, surplus food to community members who need it most....
04 April, 2023
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
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
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 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
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
Georgia Main donates 1 million meals to vulnerable communities in BC
Since starting work with FoodMesh in April 2020, IGA of BC and Fresh St. Market have collectively donated an enormous 1 million meals to people in need...
04 October, 2021
Daiya Foods case study
See how a collaboration between Daiya Foods and FoodMesh led to the donation of over $646,000 worth of food, the diversion of over 121,000 KG of food from the landfill and created 202,000 meals for families in need...
25 May, 2020
How Daiya Foods is preventing waste while feeding more
Lotus Light Charity Society shares how the donations they've received from Daiya Foods has impacted them...
15 January, 2020