Posts about our activities, people, and values.
From $1.2M to $2.2M in Donated Food: How Strategic Investments Are Fueling Greater Food Access
At The SEED, we are driven by our mission to ensure that everyone in our community has access to healthy, affordable food. In 2023, we distributed $1.2 million in donated food across Guelph-Wellington, but thanks to key investments and strategic improvements, we’re...
Fresh Food Prescriptions – Increasing Access to Nutritious Food in Health Care Settings
“We can access fresh fruit and vegetables and not have to stress about the financial aspect of it," said Crocker, "Money is tight, certainly for seniors, money is tight. Everything's gone up, gas has gone up, food at the stores have gone up, we might have been able to...
October 2023 SEED Champion: Tesfay Okubahans
Every month we highlight someone who makes the SEED the do-it-together movement that it is. It takes a community to feed a community, and we’ve got an incredible community. This month we want to introduce Tesfay Okubahans! Tesfay has been a community gardener since...
September 2023 SEED Champion: Jennifer Maddock
Every month we highlight someone who makes the SEED the do-it-together movement that it is. It takes a community to feed a community, and we’ve got an incredible community. This month we want to introduce Jennifer Maddock! Jennifer has been a volunteer at The SEED for...
The Development of the Upcycle Kitchen
The Upcycle Kitchen is a volunteer-led initiative that takes food that would have otherwise gone to waste and is instead cooked to make frozen meals or baked to make fresh and frozen muffins for sale. When we began the project in 2018 it had different outcomes...
August 2023 SEED Champion: Evan Graham
Every month we highlight someone who makes the SEED the do-it-together movement that it is. It takes a community to feed a community, and we’ve got an incredible community! This month we want to introduce Evan Graham! Evan has been a SEED volunteer since the early...
Applying Social Enterprise to Food Access Programming – The SEED MarketsÂ
In the previous post I spoke about the origins of The SEED, the reports that encouraged collective action, and the first steps we took in centralizing cold storage and distribution of nutritious food in our community. In this post I touched just briefly on the fact...
The SEED’s History: Establishing Centralized Storage and Distribution
The food system has been broken for decades. Food banks were created as a short-term intervention to provide access to food among people facing poverty during hard economic times. The Canadian Association of Food Banks was established in 1987 and Guelph has had a...
July 2023 SEED Champion: Tristan Henderson
Every month we highlight someone who makes the SEED the do-it-together movement that it is. It takes a community to feed a community, and we've got an incredible community! This month we want to introduce Tristan Henderson! Right from the start, Tristan has blown us...
Program Spotlight: Good Food Distribution
Food insecurity is an income-based issue. Since incomes exist on a spectrum so too does food insecurity. There are many people in our community who are marginally food insecure, that means their household incomes are such that they worry about running out of food...
April 2023 SEED Champion: James Ball
James has been volunteering with us for over a year, and he comes every single week always ready to take on a new role! He is super flexible and dependable. James is patient, kind and could not be a better volunteer. We are so grateful to have him on our pack line!...
Guelph Farmers’ Market: We are back!
We are back at the Guelph Farmers’ Market for 2023! In 2022, 10C assumed direction of operating the Guelph Farmers’ Market, with a goal of revitalizing the space. We hope to help in their mission of improving Farmers’ Market access for everyone. We loved hosting a...
March 2023 SEED Champion: Ingrid von Cube
Every month we highlight someone who makes the SEED the do-it-together movement that it is. It takes a community to feed a community, and we've got an incredible community! This month we want to introduce Ingrid von Cube, who has continuously been a dedicated...
February 2023 SEED Champion: Ken Pilgrim
Every month, we highlight someone who makes The SEED the do-it-together food movement that it is. This month we meet Ken, a regular volunteer in the Upcycle Kitchen. Ken brings many things to his role including positivity, flexibility, humour, patience and lots of...
Program Spotlight: Creative Conversations
Creative Conversations provides opportunities to cook and learn and grow food together, while forming community connections, for older adults (ages 55+). Creative Conversations is a drop-in program. The SEED has been running it for the past several months, two days...