1. in our families, our neighbourhoods, and our society EAT IT GROW IT SHARE IT Taste 10 fruits and vegetables every day Eat local, organic and fair trade food Share sit-down home cooked meals Know where your food comes from Grow food in your community Don’t truck it in or out--compost! Ensure everybody can afford good food Invest in our children and their nutrition Sustain our farmers and rural communities PUT FOOD FIRST

2. FoodShare’s Programs Focus on Food Youth Employment Training Field To Table Catering, Toronto Kitchen Incubator Community Kitchens & Cooking Training FoodLink Hotline The Good Food Box Urban Agriculture & Community Gardening Student Nutrition: Salad Bars in Schools & Field to Table Schools Healthy Babies Eat Home Cooked Food Food Justice Advocacy Community Food Animators’ Fresh Produce Markets

3. FoodShare and Brazil History: 1980-1997-- Sao Paulo-Toronto twining 1991 -- Rod MacRae and Jack Lee visit Sao Paulo -- view Sacalo Markets 1991 -- Mary Lou Morgan, Ursula Lipski write Field to Table Feasibility Study having read the Brazil study 1993 -- Herbert De Souza -- Movement Against Hunger and For Life 1997 -- Debbie Field invited to observe Conference of the America’s in Belo Horizante 2000 -- Cecilia Rocha starts writing about Brazil 2003 -- Ryerson course -- Zahra Parvinian and Bridget King visit Belo Horizante 2004 -- Debbie Field invited as an observer of the Second National Conference on Food and Nutritional Security

4. Ryerson Trip 2004

5. A Tale of Two Cities: Toronto and Belo Horizonte

6. 1. Locally Subsidized Fresh Produce Programs Sacolao Markets in Belo Horizonte Good Food Box in Toronto

7. 1/3 the population buys their food at Sacalo Markets situated in low income neighbourhhods Markets only sell fresh fruit, vegetables, grains and beans -- the healthy building blocks of life

8. The Good Food Box: an innovative food distribution solution

9. Mondays and Tuesdays Field to Table Centre’s warehouse is busy receiving produce--directly from farmers (in season) or from the Ontario Food Terminal (in the winter months).

10. Every Tuesday a small army of volunteers gathers to pack hundreds of Good Food Boxes

11. < The large organic Good Food - week of May 30, 2006 The large conventional Good Food - week of May 30, 2006 >

12. Over 4000 boxes are delivered each month to over 180 volunteer-run drop off sites throughout Toronto

13. Community Food Animators Fresh Produce Markets Weekly fresh produce market stands in underserved communities across Toronto

14. 2. Farmer’s Markets Belo HorizonteToronto

15. 3. School Meals Belo Horizonte Toronto

16. Field to Table Schools Where kids can learn all about food - from farming and gardening, to cooking, composting, distribution and healthy eating!

17. Community Partners for Student Nutrition Advocating for healthy, nutritious food in schools and available to all of our children Helping school communities to start programs of their own

18. The Salad Bars in Schools project When given a choice, children do choose healthy food.

19. 4. School and Community Gardens Belo Horizonte Toronto

20. Community Gardens grow communities as well as food

21. Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy Food in the City

22. The Sunshine Garden Our 6,000 sq. ft. urban market garden In partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

23. Beekeeping Our own brand of honey from our own hives

24. Composting: hundreds of kilograms of vegetable waste are composted every week at Field To Table Centre

25. 5. Popular Restaurants and Catering Restaurante Popular de Belo Horizonte Low-Cost Meals ($1 or less),Toronto

26. Field To Table Catering Company Fresh, healthy and delicious food for meetings, parties, special events…any time you want good food !

27. A fully equipped and Health Department certified commercial kitchen to grow your small business Toronto Kitchen Incubator

28. Focus On Food: Youth Training & Employment Program Learning and working

29. 6. Food Information & Referral Pricing - Basic Monthly Ration, Belo Horizonte FoodLink Hotline,Toronto

30. Advocating for healthy and affordable food … for everyone

31. 7. Food Policy Inside Local Government Municipal Secretariat of Supplies, Belo Horizonte Toronto Food Policy Council

32. Field To Table Festival: An annual event to raise awareness about food security issues…from field to table

33. The world’s longest salad bar at Nathan Phillips Square

34. How can you get involved? Many corporations participate in the United Way’s Days of Caring. Spend a fun day at Field to Table Centre and know that you are helping at the same time. Volunteer, as an individual or with a group.

35. Similarities between Brazilian and Toronto Food Security Models: Not just any food -- focus on healthy food; Great concern about obesity and diet related illnesses; Interest in slow food, food culture; Focus on home cooking; Looking for structural change; Open-air markets universal and don’t’ have means test; As concerned about agrarian sustainability as city hunger;

36. Working with communities to improve access to affordable, healthy food - from Field to Table