Hunger Action Month – Affordable Housing
September is Hunger Action Month with Feed Ontario and The Burlington Food Bank represents our City within this organization. As part of this educational initiative we wanted to let everyone know that about two-thirds of the people that receive food assistance from food banks across Ontario are actually on social assistance such as Ontario Works […]
September 13-19 is Tim Hortons Smile Cookie Week
Welcome back to school. We are hoping that teachers and kids both have the patience to get through the early part of this new school year. The Burlington Food Bank runs an excellent school snack program for all families with school aged children so hopefully that takes one worry off your minds. One of the […]
Snack Program for school aged kids
The Burlington Food Bank sends best wishes to teachers and students as they return to the classrooms. We have a healthy snack program that supports your children if they are school aged. We would like to thank the teachers who have been working hard preparing for this school year. Hopefully this time around is a […]
September at the Urban Farm means lots of healthy produce to harvest
The Urban Farm was able to harvest 87 lbs of fresh food donations on Tuesday, 25 lbs the day before. There were several other local gardeners that dropped of fresh produce as well. The Urban Farm serves as a funnel point for the gardeners in Burlington every Tuesday morning between 9am and 10am. Adria Cehovin […]
September is Hunger Action Month
September is Hunger Action Month and we wanted to bring a little awareness to what that means for the Burlington Food Bank. We are again building upon the four pillars of Educate, Advocate, Volunteer and Donate. It has been a challenging year for everyone in food banking but we hope that every Provincial Association and […]
Burlington Oldtimers Slo-pitch League donates refunds
Robin is with Steve Bourke and Scott Sinclair – both board members of the Burlington Oldtimers Slo-pitch League (BOSL – https://bosl.ca/). Due to covid safety measures the BOSL was not actually able to get onto Burlington fields until July so that left each player with a return of $65+. The board gave everyone options to […]
Fresh Produce Appreciated
We wanted to thank the people that have been helping us out with the incredible fresh produce this summer. Our own gardener Samantha has managed the Burlington Food Bank garden plots and many community residents have been very generous bringing what they have on hand to add to the produce at the Urban Farm each […]
Urban Farm announces new community programs
Adria Cehovin wanted to thank all of the volunteers and the contributors for this week’s 100 lbs of fresh produce donation for families in Burlington. Just yesterday the cabbages were all completely flat due to the lack of rain support. However, look at them one day later after the rain last night along with volunteers […]
Summer’s End
Can’t believe it but we’re at Summer’s end and just a couple days left for our Summer student Jenny Seikiel. Sh’e been a delight to work with and has accomplished much for us and plans to continue on as a volunteer. Jenny says that while interacting with the clients of our food bank, they usually […]
Federal election on the horizon
Federal Election – Monday, September 20th and your vote matters. Do your best to participate and cast your vote. You can head over to https://elections.ca/ Make sure you are registered there and then you can vote by mail or in person. Housing and poverty policy means a lot to us here at the Food Bank. […]
