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Good Food Box: Sustainable Nutrition - LEARN2
The Field-to-Table program is a not-for-profit healthy food delivery system for Toronto’s low-income citizens, operated by FoodShare since 1992. It's a smart wholistic approach to food distribution that is community-based and market-driven in a way that supports local farmers.
Here's how the Good Food Box project works:
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Here's how the Good Food Box project works:
- Every month 4,000 boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables are delivered through 200 volunteer-run neighborhood drop-offs in Metro Toronto.
- It's essentially a large buying club based on many of the same principles and aspirations as Japan's Seikatsu Club, the United States' Share Box and Brazil's Citizen's Action Against Hunger and Poverty and for Life.
- The food is purchased at the Ontario Food Terminal (the outlet for most imported and local produce coming into Ontario) and directly from local farmers when possible.
- Boxes are packed by volunteers twice monthly, then delivered to any neighborhood location in Toronto that has 10 or more individuals or families who want to buy the box.
- Volunteer coordinators collect money in advance of delivery, call in orders, then make sure that customers get their boxes.
The advance order system minimizes waste, and coincides with the income cycles of people on social assistance (orders and payment are made when money is available, food arrives when supplies and money are scarce).
Box contents are standardized, though items vary with each delivery depending on what is in season or a good deal at the time.
A top priority in planning the GFB is ensuring that the produce is very fresh and of the best quality, with a good balance of staples and items that are unusual, challenging or perceived as a luxury (e.g., organic foods).
A newsletter included in the box contains educational material on food preparation, nutrition and food issues.
Take Action:
- Learn more about the Good Food Box program run by FoodShare.
- Check out Food Security websites, list servs and e-bulletins.
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Comment by A.V.Koshy on April 19, 2010 at 6:15pm
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vote for yourself jean so others know what you think this post reflects as your skill
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Comment by Ameya Warde on May 7, 2010 at 8:11pm
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Thanks for this info! I had never heard of this before. What a great idea! :)
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