in our families, our neighbourhoods, and our society

EAT IT

GROW IT

SHARE IT

• Taste 10 fruits and vegetables every day• Eat local, organic and fair trade food• Share sit-down home cooked meals

• Know where your food comes from• Grow food in your community• Don’t truck it in or out--compost!

• Ensure everybody can afford good food• Invest in our children and their nutrition• Sustain our farmers and rural communities

PUT FOOD FIRST

PUT FOOD FIRST

FoodShare’s Programs

Focus on Food Youth Employment Training

Field To Table Catering, Toronto Kitchen Incubator Community Kitchens & Cooking Training

FoodLink Hotline

The Good Food Box

Urban Agriculture & Community Gardening

Student Nutrition:Salad Bars in Schools & Field to Table Schools

Healthy Babies Eat Home Cooked Food

Food Justice Advocacy

Community Food Animators’ Fresh Produce Markets

FoodShare and Brazil History:

1980-1997-- Sao Paulo-Toronto twining1991 -- Rod MacRae and Jack Lee visit Sao Paulo -- view Sacalo Markets1991 -- Mary Lou Morgan, Ursula Lipski write Field to Table Feasibility Study having read the Brazil study1993 -- Herbert De Souza -- Movement Against Hunger and For Life1997 -- Debbie Field invited to observe Conference of the America’s in Belo Horizante2000 -- Cecilia Rocha starts writing about Brazil2003 -- Ryerson course -- Zahra Parvinian and Bridget King visit Belo Horizante2004 -- Debbie Field invited as an observer of the Second National Conference on Food and Nutritional Security

Ryerson Trip 2004

A Tale of Two Cities:

Toronto and Belo Horizonte

1. Locally Subsidized Fresh Produce Programs

Sacolao Markets in Belo Horizonte

Good Food Box in Toronto

1/3 the population buys their food atSacalo Markets situated in low income neighbourhhods

Markets only sell freshfruit, vegetables, grains and beans -- the healthy buildingblocks of life

The Good Food Box:

an innovative food distribution solution

Mondays and Tuesdays Field to Table Centre’s warehouse is busy receiving produce--directly from farmers (in season) or from the Ontario Food Terminal (in the winter months).

Every Tuesday a small army of volunteers gathers to pack hundreds of Good Food Boxes

< The large organic Good Food - week of May 30, 2006

The large conventional Good Food - week of May 30, 2006

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Over 4000 boxes are delivered each month to over 180volunteer-run drop off sites throughout Toronto

Community Food AnimatorsFresh Produce MarketsWeekly fresh produce market stands in underserved communities across Toronto

2. Farmer’s Markets

Belo HorizonteToronto

3. School Meals

Belo Horizonte

Toronto

Field to Table SchoolsWhere kids can learn all about food - from farming and gardening, to cooking, composting, distribution and healthy eating!

Community Partners for

StudentNutrition

Advocating for healthy, nutritious food in schools and available to all of our children

Helping school communities to start programs of their own

The Salad Bars in Schools project

When given a choice, children do choose healthy food.

4. School and Community Gardens

Belo HorizonteToronto

CommunityGardensgrowcommunitiesas well as food

Urban Agriculture:Growing Healthy Food in the City

The Sunshine Garden

Our 6,000 sq. ft. urban market gardenIn partnership with the Centre for Addiction and

Mental Health

BeekeepingOur own brand of honey from our own hives

Composting: hundreds of kilograms of

vegetable waste are composted every week at

Field To Table Centre

5. Popular Restaurants and Catering

Restaurante Popular de Belo Horizonte

Low-Cost Meals ($1 or less),Toronto

Field To Table Catering CompanyFresh, healthy and delicious food formeetings, parties, special events…any time you want good food !

A fully equipped and Health Department certified commercial kitchen to grow your small business

Toronto Kitchen Incubator

Focus On Food:Youth Training & Employment Program

Learning and working

6. Food Information & Referral

Pricing - Basic Monthly Ration, Belo Horizonte

FoodLink Hotline,Toronto

Advocating for healthy and affordable food …

for everyone

7. Food Policy Inside Local Government

Municipal Secretariat of Supplies, Belo Horizonte

Toronto Food Policy Council

Field To Table Festival:An annual event to raise awareness about food security issues…from field to table

The world’s longest salad bar at Nathan Phillips Square

How can you get involved?

Many corporations participate in the United Way’s Days of Caring. Spend a fun day at Field to Table Centre and know that you are helping at the same time.

Volunteer, as an individual or with a group.

Similarities between Brazilian and Toronto Food Security Models:

• Not just any food -- focus on healthy food;

•Great concern about obesity and diet related illnesses;

•Interest in slow food, food culture;•Focus on home cooking;

•Looking for structural change; •Open-air markets universal and don’t’

have means test;•As concerned about agrarian sustainability as city hunger;

Working with communities to improve

access to affordable, healthy food

- from Field to Table