In an effort to combat food insecurity, the Regina Food Bank and Farm Credit Canada introduces an initiative aims to secure and distribute food with indoor agriculture.
In an effort to improve capacity to secure and distribute food, the Regina Food Bank announced an initiative to address food insecurity in the community.“When you run a food bank, you need food,” said David Froh, RFB Vice-President Community. “When you go from feeding 6000 people to 16,000 people a month, you need a lot of food. When you go from spending $90,000 a year buying food to $1 million, you’re buying food.
“I think seeing how the project will eventually scale not only locally in Regina, but what it can mean for the rest of the food banks across Canada,” said Justine Hendricks. “We know that modular growing is a somewhat new concept but if the food bank able to prove out the test case, it can really start to change in terms of how you support your local communities in terms of accessing foods.”
The RFB is excited about the work it can do in terms of providing an economic catalyst by creating more positions.
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