Category Archives: Community Food Flow

The Food Flow project is a two-year project supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. As we are approaching to the end of this project cycle, we have started to reflect on what we have accomplished since the beginning of 2013. … Continue reading →

Come join us for the third Food Flow Workshop on healthy meal planning and cooking at FoodShare! This workshop will focus on creating healthy meals that are delicious and appealing for groups, and can be prepared on a tight budget. … Continue reading →

We are thrilled to release a short discussion paper on “Aggregated Food Procurement in Toronto”! This discussion paper builds on all the Food Flow research and projects so far, and examines next steps and opportunities for how the community food … Continue reading →

The 2013 Toronto Public Health and Food Flow research indicated the need for the Food Flow Facility, a social enterprise that will provide commercial scale food processing for agencies. It will also incorporate other services such as a community freezer, … Continue reading →

The Food Flow project with the West End Food Co-op held a thoroughly successful food canning workshop for community agencies this month. We roasted up a boatload of tomatoes, made them into sauce, produced tomato stock on the side and … Continue reading →

Food Flow is exploring an urban community freezer for meat. The project would provide the infrastructure to pool the resources of local social service agencies for bulk purchases of meat at volume discounts. The meat would be kept in freezer … Continue reading →

Developing the Food Flow Kitchen – a social enterprise that provides commercial food processing services for community agencies and other food-based social enterprises – is one of the key recommendations from the Food Flow research. The Food Flow team has … Continue reading →

Coming to your neighbourhood, canning at your doorstep…the Food Flow Kitchen might be a mobile food processing kitchen. The Food Flow Kitchen is a social enterprise that will provide commercial scale processing for community agencies; it will increase access to … Continue reading →

It has been one year since the Food Flow project started in early 2013 with the strategic planning session with key stakeholders in the community food sector. The first year focused on the extensive community food needs assessment study that … Continue reading →