The Sustainability Committee wants to find out your interest in a potential new initiative. This will only take two minutes of your time – please read the quick description and then go to the survey link below. We really need your input!

Fresh City Farms is a city farm located in Toronto. They are based at Downsview Park and they have member farmers that grow veggies all around the city. They run a local, organic bag delivery program and have approached Humber to see if we are interested in being a drop-off location for their program. You may have heard of this kind of thing, once a week you can have a bag of fresh local food delivered to your home (or to Humber if we want to do it). There is more information on their website: www.freshcityfarms.com/. Interested Humber folks would sign up and pay for what they wanted on their website, and the delivery would come to the campus one day each week. (If there is enough interest at both North and Lakeshore Campuses, then we can set it up at both). All you need to do is come pick it up before you go home that day!

Additional details about the program:

• A regular bag is mixed fruits/veggies and feeds 2-3 people. They also do a larger bag that feeds about 4 people/week.
• The price ranges around $28-38 depending on the size of the bag you want.
• Subscribers can opt for weekly or bi-weekly deliveries and you are able to skip deliveries whenever you need to
• You can see a price comparison between a typical week of Fresh City produce vs. Loblaws + Grocery Gateway here:www.freshcityfarms.com/get-a-box/overview/
• Subscribers can add notes to their bag like "please never send radishes" if there are any specific diet requirements/distastes
• Subscribers can also choose to add other staples to their bag such as coffee, eggs, milk, bread, cheese, etc
• The produce comes in closed, insulated bags and there is also a cooler bag inside to help keep the more fickle greens fresh
• They would drop off before 3p.m. to ensure we leave staff with enough time to pick up your bag before day's end!

PLEASE follow this link to let us know if you are interested or not, or any other comments you might have.  

For more information, please contact: 

Name: Lindsay Walker
Phone: 416.805.8970
Email: lindsay.walker@humber.ca