Food is important to everyone. For those of us who have the financial and social resources to regularly access food, the significance of that is not always clear. But for some, like the at-risk and street-involved youth we work with food, the types of foods they eat, how they prepare that food, and whether they have enough money to buy that food at all, often presents an everyday challenge.

GLYV acknowledges our responsibility to be effective stewards of the world’s food resources.  As a service provider we have an obligation to help our clients become more knowledgeable about food and about making healthier food choices.  As a business, we have the opportunity to take a stronger role in helping customers to access healthier foods and to promote ways that they can do so outside of just making food purchases through the Ground Level Café.

For this reason, GLYV has partnered with FoodShare Toronto. 

FoodShare is a Toronto based organization involved in several innovative projects designed to promote healthy eating, teach food preparation and cultivation, develop community capacity and create non-market-based forms of food distribution.  Ground Level Cafe purchases produce through FoodShare’s agency distribution program which supplies schools, nursing homes and other agencies with produce.  Each week our menu will feature a Foodshare recipe as a means of highlighting Foodshare’s work in the community and of creating a unique niche for our café in the Parkdale market.

Visit the FoodShare website for more information.