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Rescuing Food, Nourishing Communities.
We leverage app technology and partner with volunteer drivers to deliver surplus food to nonprofits across Metro Vancouver.
Turning Excess Into Impact
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Our Programs
Every year, millions of pounds of edible food go to waste. Our mission is simple: reduce food waste and redirect it to essential neighbourhood food programs and social service organizations.
Together, we’re creating a more sustainable, compassionate community.
Get Involved
We engage volunteers to help food businesses in Metro Vancouver divert surplus food, while supplying nonprofits with fresh, nutritious food.
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Newsletter Spotlight
One moment that sticks with me was during the early days of the pandemic. Almost overnight, all our events and corporate catering clients had to cancel. We were left with hundreds of fresh meals and nowhere for them to go. Vancouver Food Runners helped us act quickly, and within hours, those meals were rerouted to shelters and community groups across the city.
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Newsletter Spotlight
Nonprofits are near and dear to our hearts at Rock & Bloom. We love the opportunity to really help to affect change for an organization and the nonprofit sector is where we really see this come to fruition. We wanted to make sure the refreshed brand clearly communicated VFR’s mission, impact, and core values. So, we focused on refining the messaging to better connect with your key audiences through themes like sustainability, community, and food justice.
Newsletter Spotlight
I began my work in the DTES in 2007, as a student in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC, in the Global Resource Systems program. My journey was shaped through pathways of questioning of accessibility and cultural relevance within food system security. Over the past 18 years, I’ve continued to deepen my understanding by actively supporting Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Food Justice, while respectfully contributing to interconnected communities of care.
Newsletter Spotlight
I think we’re moving in the right direction, especially in a city like Vancouver, but there’s always room to grow. In the food industry, I’d love to see more support and awareness around strengthening existing food donation networks, while also encouraging new initiatives—whether big or small—to step in and help. Feeling that collective support is incredibly motivating. When people believe in an idea and work together to bring it to life, the impact becomes even greater.
Newsletter Spotlight
I am very fortunate to have grown up in a family who spend lots of time out on the land gardening, hunting, fishing, harvesting wild foods and medicines, exploring, and connecting. A love and respect for all my relations was instilled in me at a very young age, and over time, a desire to heal the land and its people’s relationship with it began to evolve.
Newsletter Spotlight
The positive impact of LunchLAB on my students and school community, combined with my involvement in the Coalition for Healthy School Food — which now boasts over 500 organizational members and supporters — has deepened my commitment to advocating for school food programs.
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