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Two Calgary organizations have partnered to improve access to healthy and affordable food. The Arusha Centre and Fresh Routes mobile grocery store have teamed up so Calgarians can use Calgary Dollars to pay for the

The idea for Eat 4 Later came when founder Nelson Liem saw the COVID-19 impact on Calgary businesses – particularly the restaurant industry. With business slowed to a trickle for many city kitchens, Liem thought

Paul Gill has his pulse on the changing food needs of Calgary and the world. Gill grew up eating pulse crops – beans, lentils, peas – raised in Canada as the child of first-generation Indian

Kareema Batal and her co-founder Ala Attallah grew up in Jerusalem and she said fresh-pressed juice was part of their culture. “We used to consume it every day on the way to school, on the

Freshly picked, packaged and ready to consume fruits and vegetables just became mobile. Leftovers Foundation and Calgary Harvest teamed up to create the Home Harvest program, with the goal of providing healthy, local produce to

COVID-19 has posed a variety of challenges for Calgarians, but it’s also shed light on pre-existing issues, such as food insecurity.  Jane Wachowich, the Executive Director of Youth Centres of Calgary (YCC), has begun a

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Calgarian Rob Swiderski had what he termed “a spiritual awakening.” After growing up in northeast Calgary and spending more than two decades in Calgary’s restaurant and hospitality industry with such heavyweights

Not only are they navigating COVID-19 pandemic health protocols, but a local group providing affordable food to Calgary families struggling with food insecurity is seeing a substantial increase in need. The Community Kitchen has been