2023-10-04
To date, 100km Foods Market customers have donated $2,500 in support of FoodShare Toronto — thank you so much for supporting this incredible organization!
Supporting FoodShare Toronto means supporting community-led food initiatives and working alongside communities most affected by poverty and food insecurity: Black and Indigenous people, people of colour, people with disabilities, and folks living on a low income. Everyone deserves access to affordable, fresh, nutritious food.
Each year, over 200,000 people benefit from FoodShare programs and initiatives. This includes:
🎒School Grown: A farming project in collaboration with several schools throughout Toronto, which provides opportunities for youth employment as well as entrepreneurship training for young folks invested in urban agriculture. Last year, the School Grown team grew and harvested 35,000 lbs of organic herbs, fruits and vegetables.
🍎Early Years Food Basics: Hands-on workshops for parents and caregivers of babies, toddlers and preschoolers to learn skills and build the confidence needed to make nutritious food at home, including information about when and how to introduce new foods, using equipment for making food from scratch, and food safety basics.
🔪Chefs@Home: A free, virtual cooking opportunity for Black, Indigenous people, or people of colour (BIPOC) youth and their families. A box of ingredients is delivered ahead of time, free of charge, and a professional chef teaches young cooks how to prepare delicious, culturally relevant meals in their own kitchens.
Alongside grassroots program delivery, FoodShare advocates for long-term solutions that can dismantle the causes of poverty and food insecurity at the root — creating spaces and systems that support and centre folks who have been historically left out of solution-making, and to demand accountability from those in positions of power.
Together with local leaders and community groups that inform and direct our work — as well as supporters like our 100km Foods community — we are moving towards a vision of a Toronto where everyone can feed themselves, their loved ones and their communities with dignity and joy.
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