Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
Updated October 15, 2022
Food Collective projects and research are focused on transitioning from a charity to an empowerment model. This includes advocating for system and policy changes that address the root causes of food insecurity.
The 2013 Vital Signs Advisory Committee prioritized three issue areas from the report: Food Security, Learning and Transportation. Working groups were formed to define priorities and projects in these three areas.
The Vital Signs Food Security working group partnered with Hastings-Prince Edward Public Health (HPEPH) to initiate a community garden project in Prince Edward County (Picton's Delhi Park).
The pilot project works with established programs that have been successful in making fresh local food more accessible to all in the community such as Fresh for All, Food to Share and Food Not Bombs.
Food Systems and Community Leadership - Funding from Community Foundations of Canada and Loblaw’s Companies Limited augmented a Stage One Collective Impact grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) and funds from a private local donor to carry out the first phase of long-term Food Security Collective Impact project.
Vision: every person in PEC has the means to consistently access and consume nutritious, affordable food.
The Food Collective was formed to collaborate around the strategies in the Theory of Change.
Focused on:
Building community awareness and engagement
Developing skills and knowledge
Improving access
The Food Collective opened The County Food Depot as a short-term project to ride alongside the Food Banks during Covid-19. The supplementary, ‘no cost’ food program supplied 2,930 food hampers from April 17, 2020 and through June 25, 2021. Food Depot volunteers donated almost 3,000 hours over a 63 week period.
Procurement and distribution of fresh, affordable food linked to local suppliers https://www.facebook.com/pecfresh/
The three-month project supported the Food Collective’s annual plan and aimed to: increase food collective member engagement, increase best practice knowledge in engaging food insecure residents in food programming and income support programs, and begin long-term planning for food programs.
A significant outcome of the initial phase in 2018 was articulation of a Food Security Theory of Change.
Vision: every person in PEC has the means to consistently access and consume nutritious, affordable food
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