The Good Food MarketGood Food For All

St. James Campus• 1 of 30 GFMs in Toronto• The only one in a post- secondary institution• Started in June ’12

The Good Food Market is held every Thursday 10:30AM to 3:00PM in the main lobby at the St. James Campus of George Brown College located at 200 King St E Toronto. Everyone is welcome!

The Good Food Market (GFM) at George Brown College is a non-profit initiative of the Academic Upgrading Program with the support of FoodShare.

The GFM strives to offer access to fresh food at affordable prices for the college and surrounding community. Beyond simply selling produce, the GFM aims to be a community hub for connecting, learning and organizing around something that connects us all: food.

The GFM presents a convenient and affordable way to eat good healthy food.

Community Partnerships

GFM-GBC Community Partnerships

George Brown College & FoodShare

FoodShare works in partnership with community organizations and neighbourhood leaders to run the markets, and delivers top-quality fresh produce purchased from local farmers and the Ontario Food Terminal on market day. We pass on tools, training and ongoing support to community partners and residents who manage all operational aspects of the market. At the George Brown location, the market is run by interns and volunteer students and is overseen by a faculty member.

The Connection

FoodShare Toronto is a non-profit community organization whose vision is:Good Healthy Food for All.

FoodShare takes a unique multifaceted and long-term approach to hunger and food issues. They work to empower individuals, families and communities through food-based initiatives, while advocating for the broader public policies needed to ensure that everyone has adequate access to sustainably produced, good healthy food.

FoodShare Toronto is Canada’s largest community food security organization, recognized as an important innovator of effective programs that have been reproduced all across Canada. They facilitate empowerment and community development from the ground up, cultivating awareness, building citizenship and enhancing individual and community participation, all the while striving to improve access to good healthy food.

The Ontario Food Terminal Board is a Self-funding Operational Enterprise of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and has been supporting the “BUY LOCAL” movement since 1954.

With over 5,000 registered buyers employing a minimum of 20 persons per buyer, the facility contributes at least 100,000 direct and indirect jobs to the Ontario Economy, this number does not take into account farm employment of both direct and indirect nor does it include those employed at the Terminal itself or the service jobs that support those businesses at the OFT, the farms or the retailers

FoodShare & The Ontario Food Terminal The Connection

Us vs. Them

Item GFM Rabba

Apples 0.10 cents each $1.47

Bananas 0.25 cents each 0.48 cents

Oranges 0.25 cents each 0.78 cents

Sourced week of April 3-9, 2016

Sourced from GFM April 7, 2016

GFM Price List

Good Food Market Price List Origin Item Price

Ontario Apples - Small $0.10

Mexico Avocado $1.00 each Colombia Bananas $0.30 each / 4 for $1

Unknown Beans - Yellow $1.75 per bag Ontario Broccoli $1.75 each

Ontario Carrots - 2lb $1.00 each

USA Carrots - Mini $1.25 each USA Cilantro $1.25 each

USA Collards $1.75 each Ontario Cucumber - English $1.00 each

Mexico Garlic $0.50 each Unknown Guava $3.00/basket

USA Kale - Green $1.75 each

Chile Kiwi - 600g $2.00/basket S. America Lemons $0.40 each / 3 for $1.00

Mexico Limes $0.40 each / 3 for $1.00 Mexico Mango - Ataulfo $1.00 each

Unknown Mangos - Large $1.50 each

Ontario Mushrooms - 8oz Package $1.75 each Ontario Onions - 2lb $1.00/bag

Unknown Onions - Red 2 for 0.25 cents USA Oranges $0.25 each

USA Pears - Anjou $1.00 each USA Peppers - Green Hot Finger $1.50 per bag

Ontario Peppers - Sweet - Orange & Yellow $1.75 each

Unknown Potatoes - Yellow $0.10 each Unknown Potatoes - Yellow - 10lb bag $3.25 (limited number of bags)

USA Spinach - Bunch $1.25 each

Mexico Squash - Buttercup $2.25 each

California Strawberries $3.75 each

USA Sweet Potato - No.1 $1.00 each Unknown Swiss Chard - Green $2.00 each

USA Tomato - Grape $3.00 each USA Tomato - Hot House $1.25 each

USA Cut Vegetables $3.00 each Unavailable Zucchini - Green $1.00 each

Why Shop at the Good Food Market?FoodShare established its first two Good Food Markets in 2005 to accommodate the growing demand for fresh affordable produce, and as a way of facilitating community development while also addressing limitations for farmers and small-scale producers. Like the Good Food Box, the Markets were subsidized with fresh produce purchased in bulk from the Ontario Food Terminal. FoodShare was the first agency in Toronto to start the GFM.

The Goals of the George Brown College GFM are to: • Increase food literacy: knowledge and skills associated with food such as how to select, prepare and

consume healthy food• Change: build connections with other Community Food Security initiatives on and off campus• Variety: seasonal local produce plus imported favourites to offer the greatest quality and cultural

value to the college community• Community: vibrant and important gathering place providing opportunities for neighbours to meet,

share information and celebrate• Accessibility: fresh produce at affordable prices

Increase food literacy

Selecting : Avocado's

Place the avocado in the palm of your hand. Gently squeeze without applying your fingertips as this can cause bruising. If the avocado yields to firm gentle pressure you know it’s ripe and ready-to-eat. If the avocado does not yield to gentle pressure it is considered still “firm” and will be ripe in a couple of days. If the avocado feels mushy or very soft to the touch it may be very ripe to overripe.

Preparing: Squash

Consuming: Mango

Peeled & dice it into 1-inch cubes. The smaller size will help the squash to roast more evenly. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place the cubes into a large mixing bowl and toss with 1-2 tbsp olive oil (I use about 2 tbsp for a 3 lb. squash). Spread the squash out evenly across 1 or 2 baking sheets. Sprinkle the squash with salt, pepper, and any other seasonings you like. Roast the squash for 30-40 minutes, stirring once halfway through cooking, till the largest pieces of squash are fork tender.

Before you slice a mango, be aware that it has a large pit the shape of a giant almond in the center. Slice the mango as you would an apple, but take care to avoid the pit. Cut wedges into the mango that are no more than an inch thick. Once you're done slicing, you should have several slices of mango with the skin still on, and a pit that still has some skin on it. If you just want to eat the mango, pick up the slices by the skin and eat them. You can try to eat some of the looser skin around the pit, but don't eat the skin too close to the pit because it can be stubborn and will get stuck in your teeth worse than corn-on-the-cob. If you want to peel the mango, you can pick up the slices by the skin and gently scoop them out with a spoon. If the pieces aren't ripe enough for that, use a knife.

Change

• FoodShare (Toronto) – works to improve access to affordable, healthy food through education, food markets, and policy work

• Canada’s Action Plan for Food Security – Ten priorities developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to increase Canada’s national food security

• Canadian Association for Food Studies – Community of academic and social researchers who promote critical, interdisciplinary scholarship in the broad areas of food production, distribution, and consumption

• Food Secure Canada – Connects groups working on Food Security across Canada

• Peoples’ Food Policy Project – Bilingual, Canada-wide network creating Canada’s first food sovereignty policy

• The Stop: Community Food Centre (Toronto) – Food bank, community gardens and breakfast programs provide food with dignity, and policy work to put food in the government budget

Food security initiatives

For more information on Food Security visit: Food Secure Canada: www.bits&bytes.ca

VarietyNutritious and culturally-appropriate food for all

CommunityA vibrant gathering space for the college community at large &friendly students & volunteers

AccessibilityFood access is having sufficient resources, both economic and physical, to obtain appropriate foods for a nutritious diet. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

The St. James Campus GFM location is easily accessible for students, staff and faculty; the market is in the main lobby of St. James and within walking distance from the School of English as a Second Language/School of Design, & Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts buildings thus saving on transportation costs as well as time.

The Good Food Box Convenience - Don’t have time to shop because of your class schedule?

How the Good Food Box program works at the St. James Campus:

• you order a Good Food Box through the Good Food Market by adding your name & email to our sign up sheet

• we deliver the order form by email to customers on Monday & they return to us by Wednesday

• our team at the GFM pack your order and you pick it up from the market on Thursday between 11:30-3. Staff & Faculty can arrange to have the orders delivered