What is The PEI Food Exchange?

The PEI Food Exchange  is a grassroots group
committed to improving food security
on the island province of Prince Edward Island , Canada.
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What is Food Security?

​​"Food security exists when all people at all times have physical and economic access ​to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and  healthy life".

PEI is know as the Garden of the Gulf, A Million Acre Farm and more recently, the Food Island.

But research shows that PEI has some of the highest levels of household food insecurity in Canada.
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Our Mission

The PEI Food Exchange, empowering individuals
to improve food security for themselves and their communities
​ through gleaning, growing food, and gaining knowledge. ​
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​​Gleaning is the act of collecting excess fresh
food from farmers' fields, farmers markets,
gardens and other sources.
The PEI Food Exchange links farmers with
excess food with those who might not
​otherwise have access to fresh food.

​Growing food  ​enhances food security through the direct access to a diversity of
nutritionally and food provisions during the winter months. The PEI Food Exchange hosts gardening workshops, provides on line resources, and garden share opportunities.

Gaining knowledge ,  skills and resources to access, grow, prepare, and preserve local food for optimum nutritional and economic value. The PEI Food Exchange improves food literacy through  food skills workshops and capacity building programs