The Food Security Action Group (FSAG) launched a Bruce Grey Food Assets Map in 2014 in partnership with Grey County GIS Mapping Services. The map helps to connect organizations and businesses looking to build better food security throughout the region. In 2018, the data from the map was integrated into the Grey County Agri-Food Asset Map.
The map includes programs and initiatives like community gardens, community meals, food banks, food education, good food boxes, meal delivery services, student nutrition programs, and other support services. Food businesses on the map include farmers’ markets, distributors, grocers, producers, processors, restaurants and cafés. The map also captures food system infrastructure assets such as dry and cold storage, commercial kitchens and transportation opportunities.
Are you part of the food system in Grey Bruce? If so, FSAG wants you on the map.
FSAG uses mapped resources to engage partners in a Grey Bruce Food Gleaning project. Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover foods that would otherwise go to waste and connecting those foods to people in need. According to a 2014 Value Chain Management Centre report, Canadians waste a staggering $31 billion in food every year. Food gleaning can play a role in reducing food waste and its impacts, producing social, environmental and economic benefits.