Programs To Access Fresh Food - OAFB - Buy Local, Share Local - People were donating fresh food - farms

are able to receive retail prices for their food - Limited to one farmers market for a limited time - The Milk Program - Improves diet - Milk is donated, not purchased, no incentive - Community Harvest Ontario - Eliminate waste from farmers elds - Activity 1: Farmer sets a portion of the land at the beginning - Activity 2: Volunteers harvest anything left at the eld in the end - Activity 3: Rejected cosmetically bad food to be used - Other Programs - The Stop - Pay the farmers for the food - Runs cooking classes - Not Far From The Tree - Pick fruits from local, gets volunteers to harvest - Gives 1/3rd to the original person who planted the tree - Methodology - Objective 1: Conduct Literature Scan - Objective 2: Create A Key Contact List - Objective 3: Conduct Interviews

- Themes - Theme 1: Lack of Communication - Farmers recognized that these programs are not mentioned

- Logistics Issues - Farmers: We dont have time to always do the distribution - OAFB: Transportation comes out of our budget so the farmers dont have to worry - OAFB is located in Toronto, but they never meet the farmers, as they never meet in person - OAFB: We have storage on site - Size of the Farm Issues - OAFB: Size of farm doesnt matter, as long as they have standards and can provide a range of products - Farmers: Size does matter, everything has to be sold to make a prot - Effectiveness Issues - Hard to measure

- Overall: Increased Communication Is Needed - Theme 2: Donations Model is Not Sustainable - Current Funding - Charitable - Third party funding - Consumer funded - Farmers - Community Initiatives - Volunteers - Creating and Maintaining Relationships - Unclear responsibilities in terms of logistics deters formation of relationships - Need nancial incentives - Donations tax credit in progress, 25% of value of goods donated, not protable - Purchase of machinery - Distance - OAFB ofce in the GTA - Liability and food issues - unfound, but not known - -Donation of Food Act 1994 - Relieves donor of liability - Coordination/Management - Inconsistent food donations from farmers - Harvest surpluses uctuate - Timing to prevent product spoils - Responsibilities of harvest, transport, storage - Limited labour, storage space - Determination of earliest time for donation possible - Volunteer labour is essential - Food banks have limited volunteers with limited hours - New Opportunities - Mutually benecial partnership - Financial incentives - Third party funding - Indirect revenue - long-term return - food bank clients - Experience and help - training in harvesting/storing/shipping

- Theme 3: - The Gathering - Going beyond emergency food and building into the community - Schools - Hospitals, health clinic - Geriatric Care - Involve other parties

- Government - Specic donors - Farmers Association - Conclusions - Whats Next? - Communications between farmers, food banks - Move away from charitable - Move beyond emergency food use - Food Champions to spear-head - from different goals to common benets - Short term goal : feed the population