good food box - ottaw (la boîte verte d'ottawa)
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Ottawa Good Food BoxLa boîte verte d’Ottawa
Ottawa Good Food Box
History:
- started in 1996 by Community Developers and Community Nutritionists
- Making fruits and vegetables more accessible, more affordable
= healthy people
Ottawa Good Food Box
• Nonprofit, community-based, non-charitable model
• brings neighbors together to buy delicious and nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables at wholesale prices
• Our goal is to purchase food which is in season and is grown close to home as possible.
• Customers order in the 1st week of the month and pick up in the 3rd week
• A newsletter with nutrition tips, recipes and information about the program, is included in every box.
Large Box $20
Medium Box ($15)
Small Box ($10)
$5 Fruit Bag
$25 Local Organic Box
Our boxes
Ottawa Good Food Box
Mission:
Increase consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables
Introduce variety and new food experiences.
Encourage cooking from scratch
Build community
Ottawa Good Food Box
GFB Today:
42 sites across the city, from Orleans to Kanata to Hunt Club and everywhere in between, rural GFB sites in Carp & Constance Bay
500 boxes per month
Feeds about 1500 – 2000 people/month
85+ active volunteers
2 part-time coordinators
Other Projects
Healthy People, Healthy Communities – a PhD research project to assess barriers and facilitators for Urban Aboriginal people to access the GFB
Cooking & Nutrition workshops:-Good Food in the Schools-Cooking out of the Good Food Box- Workshops for Newcomers- Workshops for Seniors
Good Food Markets
Market Mobile
Good Food in the Schools
Program Goals:
Increase food security
Provide food skills education
Foster community development
Successes
Schools, families, and children engaged in the program
Children eating healthy foods, changing attitudes, and building life skills
Children working together, building community
Schools starting GFB sites
Families accessing healthy food
“Let’s Keep Kids Out of Hospitals” award from CHEO for poverty reduction
Eating Better…Eating
Together
• promotes healthy eating
• reduces social isolation among older adults
• Welcoming workshops
• Informal, seniors can discuss healthy eating and healthy food practices
• hands-on cooking demonstration
• seniors cook and eat a healthy meal together
GOOD FOOD MARKETS
Bon marchés de quartiers
Good Food Market
GFM are community markets that sell high quality, affordable fruits and vegetables. These markets bring healthy produce to neighbourhoods where it might not otherwise be available, and where farmers’ markets are not possible because sales are too low to cover farmers’ costs.
Good Food Markets
Good Food Markets are an initiative of the Poverty and Hunger Working Group through the Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres and their community partners.
Partners include: the Ottawa Good Food Box, Ottawa Public Health, City of Ottawa, Ottawa Community Housing and the Social Planning Council.
As well as our 11 Market locations.
Dried Goods & CFAs
Why did you come to the market? (check all that apply)
Response Chart Percentage Count
Affordable food 43% 88
Quality of food 35% 72
Close to home 68% 138
Special activities 8% 17
Socializing with friends and neighbours
22% 45
Food that I can't buy elsewhere
3% 6
Other, please specify... 14% 29
Total Responses 203
3. Because you came to the market will you...
Response Chart Percentage Count
Eat more fruits and vegetables
57% 112
Save money on food 43% 86
Know my neighbour better
28% 56
Try new kinds of food 20% 39
Eat more food from my culture
11% 22
Feel healthier 40% 80
Prepare home cooked meals
25% 50
Be more aware of local activities
36% 72
Total Responses 198
www.OttawaGoodFoodBox.ca