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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 proud to share that in 2024, that figure soared to $2.2 million—a remarkable…

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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 eat the way we should be…

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Applying Social Enterprise to Food Access Programming – The SEED Markets 

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 that we began our wholesale distribution program Good Food…

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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 food bank and community food pantries for over 30 years. Food banks…

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Fresh Food Rx Phase 2 Update

The SEED’s Fresh Food Prescription (FFRx) program has been running since 2019 and has now wrapped up its second phase! We last wrote about FFRx in this blog post in the spring. Read on for our latest findings and updates! Why Food Prescriptions? Food prescription programs are intended to improve participants’ food environments by altering…

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Souper Heroes Update

It’s soup season! You can now find our famous soup starters at markets, stores and pop-up events. All proceeds directly support our programs- help us get to $30,000 in sales this year! A Souper track record Now in its seventh year, The SEED’s Souper Heroes fundraiser is a volunteer-led initiative. Volunteers package, cook, and sell…

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Fresh Food Prescription Spotlight

The SEED’s Fresh Food Prescription (FFRx) program is a research project that is currently coming to the end of its second phase. What we are researching, and how Doctors and health care providers from the Guelph Community Health Centre write prescriptions for free fruits and vegetables to people with diet-related diseases (like diabetes). Participants redeem…

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Shelldale Farm Park Update

The SEED is a proud partner in Shelldale Farm Park. In 2021, we embarked on this multi- year project, starting with the rehabilitation of the community garden and kitchen at 20 Shelldale Cres. With lots of activity in both garden and kitchen, and tons of community engagement, the impact in just one year was enormous!…

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Groceries from The SEED Expansion to Centre Wellington and Guelph-Eramosa

Groceries from The SEED is growing. We’re so excited to let you know that we now deliver every Tuesday to these two townships in Wellington County! Sign up today and order by Fridays at 2:00pm to have high-quality groceries delivered to your door on Tuesday afternoons in Fergus, Elora, Belwood, Rockwood, Eden Mills, Ariss and…

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Important changes to Groceries from The SEED Memberships

 Starting on September 21 2021, each Groceries from The SEED Membership category has a new name and discount range: Old Membership Name/ Discount New Membership Name New Discount Range Retail Retail Weekly Specials starting soon  25% Off Discount 10-17% off 50% Off Deep Discount 17-33% off 75% Off Deepest Discount 33-50% off  Why we made these changes  After the first 6 months of testing Groceries from The SEED, changes to discount levels are necessary to…

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