Food Flow Newsletter #1

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he Food Flow project’s first newsletter has been published! The newsletter, Food Flow Findings, is published and delivered to you (sign up here!) on a monthly basis to report updates and progress our pilot project development such as Community Food Processing, Community Freezer, and Access to Farm Surplus! It also features a profile of community food agencies in Toronto to … Read More

Just released! – Community Food Flow Final Reseach Report

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The Community Food Flow (CFF) project is a community food assessment that explores assets and challenges of food distribution and food procurement in the community food sector, with particular focus on west-central neighbourhoods. The CFF project is a collaborative project led by PARC along with diverse stakeholders in Toronto’s community food sector. The CFF project built a strong research partnership … Read More

Updates from Community Food Flow project

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The Community Food Flow (CFF) project is a community food assessment that explores assets and challenges of food distribution and food procurement in the community food sector. The CFF project is a partnership project led by the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC) and in close collaboraiton with  the Community Food Procurement project led by Toronto Public Health’s Food Strategy team. … Read More

Report back from June 26 PFN meeting

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The Parkdale Food Network held its third meeting on June 26 2013 at the Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre and brought together over 30 participants from a wide range of  collaborators from local social service agencies, city staff, housing providers, and community members. The PFN meeting was convened as an opportunity for collective reflection on the PFN’s efforts for the past year … Read More

Strategic planning for Community Food Flow project

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As in the previous post, PARC, as a lead of the collaborative, has been awarded with Ontario Trillium Foundation grant for Community Food Flow project to conduct a community food assessment study with a focus on food distribution and to incubate pilot projects to create more effective and sustainable flows of healthy food to all communities. What is unique about … Read More

Community Food Flow project funded by OTF

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We are thrilled to announce that PARC, as a lead organization of a collaborative grant, was awarded the grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to conduct a two-year community food assessment study “Community Food Flow” – how food gets to Toronto’s neighbourhoods, particularly to populations with food access challenges – and to incubate pilot projects to create more effective and sustainable flows … Read More