268,000 meals.
Every day.
Food that was already grown and already good, redirected to 6.8 million people across Canada — with 309 million+ lbs of greenhouse gas kept out of the air on the way.
meals. Every day.
Food that was already grown and already good, redirected to 6.8 million people across Canada — with 309 million+ lbs of greenhouse gas kept out of the air on the way.
meals rescued since you arrived.
That's the pace: 268,000 meals a day, three every second, from food that was already grown and already good — redirected to 6.8 million people across Canada.
of all food in Canada is wasted every year — and 41.7% of it could be rescued. The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste: Update was referenced 493 times in media in its first week.
media mentions in 2025. We published new research on U.S. tariff impacts on Canadian agriculture and led Canada's delegation at the ISO 20001 Standard meeting in Australia.
Food moves north by road and by air, on tight seasonal windows.
Our largest western network, from Metro Vancouver out to remote island communities.
Winter roads and short shipping seasons shape every delivery here.
Grocery and producer donations at scale, matched to community kitchens.
Farm surplus meets small-town agencies working with limited cold storage.
Volunteers hand-bag produce that would otherwise be left in the field.
Sealift and cargo flights carry shelf-stable food to fly-in communities.
The densest part of the network, and the busiest for perishable rescue.
Growing partnerships with regional food banks and community organizations.
Rural routes connect small producers to agencies across the province.
A compact network where one delivery can reach most of a community.
Coastal agencies count on steady, predictable weekly pickups.
Ferry crossings and long hauls make every rescued pallet count.
The Stories
Ten from the front lines
The Stories
Ten from the front linesWhat your dollar moves.
Your gift pays for trucks, cold storage and the Food Rescue App — not food purchases. That's why a dollar goes so far. Slide to see what a gift keeps moving.
DonateIllustrative. Derived from 2025 results: $23.8M of operating cost moved 95.3M lbs of food — about 25¢ per pound — while averting 309M lbs of GHGs and saving 65B litres of water.
With thanks · fund & in-kind donors, fiscal 2025
happens alone.
Marks reproduced from the published 2025 report. The full donor rolls — including 10,000+ food donors — are in the PDF report.
The supporter wall.
213 partners giving $5,000 and above. Open a circle to see who.
Circles as published for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2025.
Design and engineering for the Second Harvest 2025 annual report, by RedBit Development.