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Castanet reports on how Osoyoos Food Bank is utilizing food recovery from local businesses and farms to make use of 'ugly but edible food'

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

Preventable food waste accounts for a significant amount of greenhouse gas production. These tips are intended to help us reduce our food waste at home.

Once in landfill, food waste breaks down and emits greenhouse gases, including not only carbon dioxide (CO2) but methane (CH4) – a gas 25 times more potent than CO2.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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