The Quirky Pear Blog

Top cause of household food waste

Ever considered how much waste is being generated by your leftovers? ...

17 August, 2021

Brown bananas don’t need to be binned 🍌

Household food waste accounts for a significant portion of food loss and waste in Canada. These tips are intended to help us all find new ways to reduce food waste at home. ...

11 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

Get to know: Eric Douglas

Meet Eric, FoodMesh's Business Analyst. Eric collects and collates data that helps FoodMesh make informed business decisions and ensure that we are doing the most we can to serve the needs of our customers....

09 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

A small program addressing a big problem

The story of how the Wholesale Food Purchasing Program was born, and the problem it is trying to solve...

21 July, 2021

Get to know: Aiko Uda

Meet Aiko, FoodMesh's Program Launch Coordinator. Aiko is responsible for coordinating Retail Food Recovery Program launches at participating retailers. ...

30 June, 2021

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