Our work
A system that wastes less
We ask farms about surplus, and we argue for change.
A food system that wastes less is the point of all of this. Asking farms about surplus produce is one half of the work and advocacy is the other.
8.8 million tonnes of edible food is wasted in Canada every year. Second Harvest and Value Chain Management International, 2024. That is not a shortage of food. It is a system that treats edible produce as waste at the point where it stops being convenient.
We work on both ends of that. Every yes a chapter hands to a food bank can keep produce out of the waste stream, and every figure we publish makes the case that the loss happens long before anyone’s kitchen.
Waste is a decision.
The work
Ask, introduce, record. This section covers how a chapter works week to week, the produce farms cannot sell, where chapters can work, and the goals behind the work.
Our work
Three verbs
What we do comes down to three things done properly: ask farms whether they have produce they cannot sell, introduce every yes to a food bank or food rescue organization that collects it, and argue in public for a system that stops producing the surplus in the first place.
What we do
The produce
Surplus produce is edible food that will not reach a buyer: a contract that fell through, fruit the wrong size for a shelf, or a harvest heavier than the market wanted.
Surplus produce
