Just Food

General Admission

<p fr-original-style="" id="isPasted" style="margin: 0px; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Join us for a behind-the-scenes site tour and discussion at The Sharing Place Food Centre in Orillia (sharingplaceorillia.org), a community-based organization working to meet immediate food needs while strengthening the regional food system for the future. This guided tour introduces participants to The Sharing Place&rsquo;s integrated approach, which combines emergency food support with food recovery, school nutrition, advocacy, and food system planning. Participants will explore how programs are designed to support people today while also contributing to longer-term systems change. The tour will highlight core food access programs, including: Food Bank: Providing a seven-day emergency supply of nutritious food in a non-judgmental environment; Food Recovery: Recovering surplus food from local grocery stores, suppliers, and farmers to support the Food Bank, Meals 4 Change, and community partners; Meals 4 Change: Preparing nutritious, ready-to-heat meals for agencies supporting people who are experiencing food insecurity; School Fuel: Supporting access to nutritious school food by covering 50% of costs and providing free delivery to local schools; Participants will also learn how The Sharing Place works to transform tomorrow through: Food System Planning: Assessing the regional food system and advancing community-driven planning and coordination, with a growing focus on connecting academic food systems research with community knowledge and experience. Advocacy: Applying policy-informed advocacy to poverty reduction, school nutrition, and food system design. This session includes time for questions and dialogue and will be of interest to practitioners, researchers, students, policymakers, and people working in food security, food systems, and equity-focused community action.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin:0px;width:100%;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Join us for a behind-the-scenes site tour and discussion at The Sharing Place Food Centre in Orillia (sharingplaceorillia.org), a community-based organization working to meet immediate food needs while strengthening the regional food system for the future. This guided tour introduces participants to The Sharing Place’s integrated approach, which combines emergency food support with food recovery, school nutrition, advocacy, and food system planning. Participants will explore how programs are designed to support people today while also contributing to longer-term systems change. The tour will highlight core food access programs, including: Food Bank: Providing a seven-day emergency supply of nutritious food in a non-judgmental environment; Food Recovery: Recovering surplus food from local grocery stores, suppliers, and farmers to support the Food Bank, Meals 4 Change, and community partners; Meals 4 Change: Preparing nutritious, ready-to-heat meals for agencies supporting people who are experiencing food insecurity; School Fuel: Supporting access to nutritious school food by covering 50% of costs and providing free delivery to local schools; Participants will also learn how The Sharing Place works to transform tomorrow through: Food System Planning: Assessing the regional food system and advancing community-driven planning and coordination, with a growing focus on connecting academic food systems research with community knowledge and experience. Advocacy: Applying policy-informed advocacy to poverty reduction, school nutrition, and food system design. This session includes time for questions and dialogue and will be of interest to practitioners, researchers, students, policymakers, and people working in food security, food systems, and equity-focused community action. </p>

Just Food

Learning Experience: Behind the scenes at The Sharing Place Food Centre

95 Dufferin St

General Admission

$10