The Food Flow Kitchen awarded grant from enp-TO & TEF

Parkdale People's EconomyCommunity Food Flow

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 been awarded the grant from enp-TO and Toronto Enterprise Fund to conduct a business plan for the Food Flow Kitchen! … Read More

Calling all community chefs! Food processing workshop on July 10th

Parkdale People's EconomyCommunity Food Flow

n July 10th (Thursday), the Food Flow project is organizing a workshop for community agencies – food-related staff and volunteers – on food processing and canning! The workshop is led by the West End Food Co-op. The session will include basic processing practices as well as exchanges of ideas, plans and solutions for room temperature storage of donations and surplus … Read More

Co-op Cred Program featured in “Food Fighters” documentary

Parkdale People's EconomyCo-op Cred

Co-op Cred Program is featured in a documentary “Food Fighters”! The documentary introduces various food security initiatives in Toronto. ___________________________________________ Date: Jun 26 (Thursday) Time: 6:30pm Location: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (506 Bloor Street West) Details can be found here. ___________________________________________

A Moving Experience: Mobile food processing

Parkdale People's EconomyCommunity Food Flow

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 affordably priced processed goods like canned tomatoes, provide new access to markets for farm seconds, and create stepping stone training … Read More