Saint-Laurent Creating a protocol to
measure food recovery and meal preparation Borough
Food recovery
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Management
Introduction
The borough of Saint Laurent is in the north To address poverty and food deserts, part of Montreal. This multi-cultural territory is community groups in Saint-Laurent are divided by four highways into smaller residenworking around a shared vision of an in- tial sectors and neighbourhoods in the east clusive, sustainable, and solidarity-based and industrial areas to the west. food system. New food production and recovery initia- The industrial scale infrastructure in the area tives needed to be streamlined and lacked also attracted a number of activities that relate data about their operations. to food security and urban agriculture, such A management tool was created to help as: the food donation terminal of Moisson collect data on the availability of food and Montreal, rooftop gardens (IGA Duchemin), what is being recovered. commercial rooftop greenhouses (Lufa), and The tool could be useful for measuring the more recent urban farming hub la Cenand reducing food waste in a local con- trale agricole. Even so, food deserts persist text. in Saint-Laurent. Local organizations, such This tool could help other groups to as- as Fondation la Fourmi Verte (The Green Ant sess their own operations and highlight Foundation), VertCité, la Coopérative de solithe breadth of their work.
darité Les Serres du Dos Blanc, the Bon Cour-
age community center and the YMCA Saint_ Laurent are now working around a shared vision of an inclusive, sustainable and solidarity-based food system called Comité Nourrir Saint-Laurent, an instance of the food security committee of the neighbourhood roundtable, the Comité des organismes sociaux de Saint Laurent.1 New production (Serres du Dos Blanc) and food recovery (Fondation la Fourmi Verte) activities, led by the members of the comitéNourrir Saint-Laurent, were launched to seek ways of increasing their food recovery and processing capacity. The main strategy iden1 https://www.cossl.org/comite-securite-alimentaire [page is no longer updated], https://www. nourrirsaintlaurent.com/
