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
Retail Food Recovery Program
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
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
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
Tracking food waste key to food security in Sea to Sky
Pique News Magazine reports on how food recovery has skyrocketed at Nesters Market since the store implemented FoodMesh's food waste tracking....
28 November, 2021
Loaves and Fishes/FoodMesh Helping Keep Bellies Full in West Central
WestCentralOnline reports on the extraordinary impact Loaves and Fishes' work with FoodMesh has had on people in Kindersley and surrounding communities...
12 November, 2021
How Save-On-Foods helps the Richmond Food Bank get a supply of fresh food donations
Richmond News reports on what supermarkets in Richmond do with the food they can no longer sell...
27 October, 2021
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
Georgia Main’s journey to zero waste
As Georgia Main Food Group reaches an incredible milestone in its food recovery story, we reflect on how the program came to be in the first place...
04 October, 2021
Using ‘ugly but edible’ food
Castanet reports on how Osoyoos Food Bank is utilizing food recovery from local businesses and farms to make use of 'ugly but edible food'...
27 August, 2021
Osoyoos Food Bank joins sustainable program
The Times Chronicle reports on how Osoyoos Food Bank is utilizing the Retail Food Recovery Program to access a regular supply of 'ugly but edible' food...
26 August, 2021
Okanagan grocery stores give to local charities
BC Local News reports on how IGA Stores of BC and Fresh St. Market are diverting 100% of their edible but unsaleable food away from landfills through the Retail Food Recovery Program...
19 August, 2021
Okanagan grocery stores give to local charities
The Kelowna Capital News reports on how IGA Stores of BC and Fresh St. Market are diverting 100% of their edible but unsaleable food away from landfills through the Retail Food Recovery Program...
19 August, 2021
Two B.C.-based grocery chains partner with FoodMesh to ensure no food in its stores go to waste
Fresh St. Market and IGA Stores of BC stores are diverting 100% of its edible but unsaleable perishable food to the vulnerable in communities across B.C....
19 August, 2021
Okanagan grocery stores give to local charities
The Vernon Morning Star reports on how IGA Stores of BC and Fresh St. Market are diverting 100% of their edible but unsaleable food away from landfills through the Retail Food Recovery Program...
19 August, 2021
Webinar: How to get regular food donations for your charitable program
Join the next Donation Recipient Onboarding Webinar to find out how you can benefit from the Retail Food Recovery Program and the essential information your organization needs to get started. Every Wednesday at 1:15pm PST...
10 August, 2021
Richmond Food Bank’s food recovery story
Follows the journey of a box of strawberries that have been donated by a store on our Retail Food Recovery Program, all the way to the hands of a client...
02 August, 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
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