A Metro Vancouver social enterprise combating hunger and food waste is seeking community support to stay open as rising costs threaten to shutter its operations.
Langley-based ReFeed Farm partners with grocery stores, food retailers, manufacturers and restaurants to rescue food headed for the landfill.
Founder Stuart Lilley says the farm’s circular model meant it used all 11 million pounds of discarded food it rescued last year, sending one million pounds to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank and saving an estimated 10 million pounds of carbon emissions.
“We support food banks, we support the food industry and yeah, the demands are there, but the resources to be able to sustain it, aren’t,” Lilley told CBC News on Saturday.
It’s sad that it’s cheaper for grocery stores, food retailers, manufacturers and restaurants to just throw food out than to support a system that reuses it
