in our families, our neighbourhoods, and our society

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PUT FOOD FIRST
in our families, our neighbourhoods, and our
society

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

EAT IT
GROW IT

• Know where your food comes from
• Grow food in your community
• Dont 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

SHARE IT
PUT FOOD FIRST
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FoodShares Programs
FoodLink Hotline
Student Nutrition Salad Bars in Schools Field
to Table Schools
The Good Food Box
Urban Agriculture Community Gardening
Community Food Animators Fresh Produce Markets
Field To Table Catering, Toronto Kitchen
Incubator Community Kitchens Cooking Training
Healthy Babies Eat Home Cooked Food
Focus on Food Youth Employment Training
Food Justice Advocacy
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FoodShare and Brazil History 1980-1997-- Sao
Paulo-Toronto twining 1991 -- Rod MacRae and Jack
Lee visit Sao Paulo -- view Sacalo
Markets 1991 -- Mary Lou Morgan, Ursula Lipski
write Field to Table
Feasibility Study having read the
Brazil study 1993 -- Herbert De Souza -- Movement
Against Hunger and For Life 1997 -- Debbie Field
invited to observe Conference of the Americas
in Belo Horizante 2000 -- Cecilia Rocha starts
writing about Brazil 2003 -- Ryerson course --
Zahra Parvinian and Bridget King visit Belo
Horizante 2004 -- Debbie Field invited as an
observer of the Second National Conference on
Food and Nutritional Security
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Ryerson Trip 2004
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A Tale of Two Cities
Toronto and Belo Horizonte
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1. Locally Subsidized Fresh Produce Programs
Good Food Box in Toronto
Sacolao Markets in Belo Horizonte
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1/3 the population buys their food at Sacalo
Markets situated in low income neighbourhhods
Markets only sell fresh fruit, vegetables, grains
and beans -- the healthy building blocks of life
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The Good Food Box
an innovative food distribution solution
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Mondays and Tuesdays Field to Table Centres
warehouse is busy receiving produce--directly
from farmers (in season) or from the Ontario Food
Terminal (in the winter months).
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Every Tuesday a small army of volunteers gathers
to pack hundreds of Good Food Boxes
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lt The large organic Good Food - week of May 30,
2006
The large conventional Good Food - week of May
30, 2006 gt
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Over 4000 boxes are delivered each month to over
180 volunteer-run drop off sites throughout
Toronto
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Community Food Animators Fresh Produce Markets
Weekly fresh produce market stands in underserved
communities across Toronto
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2. Farmers Markets
Belo Horizonte
Toronto
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3. School Meals
Toronto
Belo Horizonte
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Field to Table Schools
Where kids can learn all about food - from
farming and gardening, to cooking, composting,
distribution and healthy eating!
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Community Partners for Student Nutrition
Advocating for healthy, nutritious food in
schools and available to all of our children
Helping school communities to start programs of
their own
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The Salad Bars in Schools project
When given a choice, children do choose healthy
food.
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4. School and Community Gardens
Toronto
Belo Horizonte
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Community Gardens grow communities as well as
food
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Urban Agriculture Growing Healthy Food in the
City
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The Sunshine Garden
Our 6,000 sq. ft. urban market garden In
partnership with the Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health
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Beekeeping Our own brand of honey from our own
hives
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Composting hundreds of kilograms of vegetable
waste are composted every week at Field To
Table Centre
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5. Popular Restaurants and Catering
Low-Cost Meals (1 or less),Toronto
Restaurante Popular de Belo Horizonte
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Field To Table Catering Company
Fresh, healthy and delicious food for meetings,
parties, special eventsany time you want good
food !
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Toronto Kitchen Incubator
A fully equipped and Health Department certified
commercial kitchen to grow your small business
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Focus On Food Youth Training Employment Program
Learning and working
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6. Food Information Referral
FoodLink Hotline,Toronto
Pricing - Basic Monthly Ration, Belo Horizonte
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Advocating for healthy and affordable food
for everyone
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7. Food Policy Inside Local Government
Municipal Secretariat of Supplies, Belo Horizonte
Toronto Food Policy Council
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Field To Table Festival An annual event to raise
awareness about food security issuesfrom field
to table
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The worlds longest salad bar at Nathan Phillips
Square
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How can you get involved?
Volunteer, as an individual or with a group.
Many corporations participate in the United Ways
Days of Caring. Spend a fun day at Field to
Table Centre and know that you are helping at the
same time.
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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 dont have means
  test
• As concerned about agrarian sustainability as
  city hunger

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Working with communities to improve access to
affordable, healthy food- from Field to Table