Food First NL 

Address: 44 Torbay Rd, Suite 302, St. John’s, NL A1A 2G4 

Mandate:

Food First NL is a provincial non-profit organization that supports and collaborates with many like-minded organizations and individuals to actively promote comprehensive, community-based, and equitable solutions to improve food security across Newfoundland and Labrador. 

Food First NL works collaboratively across all parts of the food system. Their programs and partnerships span production, distribution, access, consumption, and disposal of food. They aim to help build a province where people have both economic access to food and a thriving local food system to participate in.  

Target Population:

Everyone.

Highlights of Programs/Services Offered:

• Current Projects:
  • Rethinking Food Charity: A Community Conversation
  • Retail Partnership for Better Food Access
  • Food on the Move
  • Lived and Living Experience Advisory Group
  • St.John’s Food Policy Council
  • Institutional Food Work
• Past Projects:
  • St. John’s Food Assessment
  • Our Food NL
  • Everybody Eats
  • Healthy Corner Stores NL
  • Senior Food Skills
• Select Resource:
  • Food Insecurity Fact Sheets
  • Monthly Newsletter
  • Community Food Action Space
  • Community Led Food Assessments
  • Wasteless Resources
  • Cooking Posters
  • Reports
  • Best Practice Toolkits
  • Fit To Eat Podcast
  • Food Skills Workshops
  • Food Film Library
  • Wild Game Donations
  • CLEAR Wild Food Database
  • Community Food Helpline