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The Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks (VNFN’s) are a collective of 19 community food organizations across Vancouver, working together to advance food security and justice at both the neighbourhood and city-wide level.

Vancouver Neighbourhood food networks

About
the VNFN

At the heart of our work is community development and the principle that everyone has the right to dignified access to nutritious food and meaningful community connections. VNFNs work within geographical neighbourhoods and support community-based equitable food access, education, skill building, and advocacy.

Together we build relationships, share knowledge and program information, and advocate with a unified voice for food equity, cultural and ecological sustainability, and resilient community food systems.

FOOD SECURITY FOR ALL

We break down barriers that prevent people from accessing nutritious, affordable, and personally acceptable food.

Food access is increased through localized, inclusive food initiatives including drop-in meals, bulk buying clubs, mobile produce markets, emergency food supports, and community gardening programs.

EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT

We share knowledge and resources at every level of the food system through community-based education, advocacy, and research.

We build food literacy by creating space for learning, sharing, and connection—through workshops, community kitchens, cultural gatherings, and dialogue.

BUILDING COMMUNITY

We use food to bring people together in ways that meet physical, spiritual, social, and emotional needs.

Community events raise awareness about food security and reduce social isolation by helping neighbours connect.

FOOD JUSTICE & SOVEREIGNTY

We empower and amplify the voices of underrepresented communities in the local food system, with a commitment to learning from and working toward decolonizing food practices on unceded Coast Salish Territories.

West End Neighbourhood Food Network

Gordon Neighbourhood House Food Network

Downtown East Side Neighbourhood House Right to Food Network

Strathcona Community Centre Food Security Program

Grandview Woodland Food Connection

Westside Food
Collaborative

Westside Neighbourhood Food Network

Mount Pleasant Food Network

Cedar Cottage Food Network

Collingwood Neighbourhood House Renfrew-Collingwood Food Justice

Marpole-Oakridge Neighbourhood Food Network

Hastings Sunrise Community Food Network

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House Food Program

Part of Hastings Sunrise Community Food Network

Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House Food Program

Part of Hastings Sunrise Community Food Network

City Reach Care Society Food Program

Part of Hastings Sunrise Community Food Network

South Vancouver Neighbourhood House Food Network

Little Mountain Riley Park Neighbourhood Food Network

Fairview False Creek Food Network

Hastings Community Centre Food Program

The Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks respectfully acknowledge that we are living and working on unceded sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl’ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Metis people. As a food justice focused organization, we recognize and uphold our responsibility to support and work for food systems change that respects and cares for the local land and people.

The VNFN’s are proud members of the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition which aims to create space for community-based organizations and those with lived and living experience – working through community driven, collaborative, and cross-sectoral organizational structures to engage meaningfully and authentically in advocacy, policy and food justice systems change.