EarthBites (June 2015 to September 2015)
Greenchain Consulting identified and developed an enterprise strategy for EarthBites to help them generate their own income to support their school programs. Work included the research, development, and measurement of viable enterprise strategies and budgets, and an overall revised strategy for EarthBites, which helped the launch of one enterprise (cooking classes for adults).
The Sharing Farm (October 2014 to December 2014)
The Sharing Farm facilitated the exploration of collaborative frameworks between The Sharing Farm, Richmond Food Security, and Richmond Schoolyard Project to help the three organizations deliver their objectives more efficiently and effectively.
Pot Luck Café Society and Kitchen Tables Project (August 2012 to September 2014)
Greenchain Consulting designed and implemented a Collective Food Procurement Mechanism which leverages the collective purchasing power of both large and small DTES Food Providers.
Metro Vancouver Food Waste Recovery Program (December 2012 to July 2013)
Greenchain Consulting, in collaboration with Erin Nichols at Farm Folk City Folk, prepared a feasibility study and business plan for a food recovery program which recovers unwanted, but edible, food from retailers and distributors and then uses the food to make frozen ready meals, soups, and food baskets for low income families. The objective was to roll out the business model throughout Metro Vancouver to divert 1% of the organic waste away from landfill.
The Food Rescue Project (Mustard Seed), BC (September 2015 to present)
The Food Rescue Project is a strategy being administered by the Food Share Network, a collaboration among more than 40 non-profit food service providers, addressing and responding to the challenge of food insecurity and hunger in the Capital Region. This project will target these issues by diverting high quality, perishable food from the waste stream and redirecting it to low income people and families.
Greenchain is working with the group on developing a comprehensive business plan, maximizing the functionality of their Woo commerce platform, providing advice on stage 2 developments such as a commercial kitchen, leading a survey of hundreds of potential users, and developing their strategy plan based on survey results and other research.