Our work
Working with farms
How a chapter finds a farm and asks one question.
Working with farms is most of what a chapter does. Nothing happens until a grower has said yes, so that conversation is where the effort goes.
A chapter starts by building the list: every commercial farm business in the area HQ assigns it, with its published business contact. Pairs draft each email from the template, and the Outreach Editor reads every one before it is sent. The message is short and asks one question. A Follow-up Clerk sends the single follow-up on day 14 and closes the record.
When a grower says yes, the chapter gives the farm the published contact of an organization that collects, free, with its own vehicle, and the farm arranges the pickup directly. The Records and Hours Clerk records the outcome.
A yes is logged.
Our work
Ask, introduce, record. The section sets out all three, how a chapter is organized, and how areas are assigned. Start there if you want the whole picture.
Our work
The work
Three things, in order: ask Canadian farms one question, hand every yes to a food bank or food rescue organization that collects it, and argue in public for a food system that stops treating edible food as waste.
What we do
Surplus produce
Grade-outs, overstocked produce, a harvest heavier than the market wanted, fruit the wrong shape for a shelf. An estimated 13% of the fruits and vegetables grown in Canada go unharvested or are discarded after harvest, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Surplus produce
