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Discover British Columbia’s Progressive Food Community
Together we grow a resilient, socially just, and globally significant community of progressive food businesses. Our purpose at Feeding Growth is to support and scale progressive BC-based food brands and entrepreneurs.
Through community engagement and education activities, the Feeding Growth community of food leaders, supporters, businesses, and organizations works together to amplify the local food economy by assisting the producers of exceptional, healthy, sustainable, and socially responsible retail and packaged goods companies.
We believe British Columbia can be a globally recognized centre for the production and innovation of environmentally progressive, natural and/or organic, ethical, and socially responsible retail and packaged goods foods.
Events

September 24 to November 19, 2020
Scale Your Progressive Food Business Workshop Series
COVID-19 Resources
We compiled a list of COVID-19 food systems resources, media articles, and other content to help progressive food businesses in BC find information that may help them navigate this unprecedented time.
See our full resource list here.
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Alumni
- A Bread Affair
- AgroRoasters
- Aji Gourmet Foods
- Alami Foods
- Archimallow
- Babalicious Culinary Solutions
- Baby Munchiez
- Back to Roots Kitchen
- Baru Rubs & Sauces
- Batch Sweet Kitchen
- BC Artisan Group
- Boosh Foods
- Caldo Broths
- Chai Chics Meals Inc.
- CassaV Foods
- Craft Grain
- Coast Protein
- Commissary Connect
- Counter Culture Kombucha
- Culture Craft Kombucha
- Culture Kefir
- Darsana Tea
- Earnest Ice Cream
- DRS Earthwise Society
- East Van Jam
- East Van Roasters
- Equa Trading Co.
- Ethical Bean
- Farmy
- Feeding Change
- Flavours of Hope
- Garden Family Organics
- Gathering Place Trading Company
- Goodly Goods
- Goodmallows
- Goliath Coffee
- Gorilla Foods
- Grind Bar
- Heppel Potato Corp.
- Hidden Garden Foods
- Hives for Humanity
- Holy Napoli Pizza
- Home Grown Living
- Hoochy’Booch Kombucha
- Justgo Smoothie
- Just Tea
- Kafka’s Organic
- Kasama Chocolate
- Keto Munch Foods
- Kindred Cultures
- Kitchening & Co.
- LAB Water Kefir
- La casa del Maiz, Authentic Mexican Tortilleria
- Lisa Lou’s Chocolates
- Lita’s Mexican Foods
- Live Love Eat Food Company
- Lower Mainland Herb Growers Cooperative
- Main Street Honey Shoppe
- Marvel Food Corp.
- Master of Food Resource Economics
- Mellifera Bees
- Menummi
- Mogiana Coffee
- Molbani Tea
- Moonbrew Tonics
- Moonshine Mamas
- Munchies Food Share
- Mutha Dukkah
- Namasthé
- North Shore Candy Company
- Nourish Vancouver
- Nuba
- NuIT Nutrition
- Oddity Kombucha
- Olive Us
- Ondine Oceanfarm
- Panela Lemon
- Pastiche Pates
- Plant Veda
- PreBak Edible Cookie Dough
- Quejos Ancient Foods
- Rebel Soup
- Roaster Hot Sauce
- Sable Short Bread Company
- Salt Spring Harvest
- SaltSpring Kitchen Co.
- Savoury Chefs
- Save Da Sea Foods Inc.
- Shorba Broth Bar
- Spread Em’ Kitchen
- Sprightly Plant Power
- Squamish Water Kefir
- Susgrainable
- Tayybeh
- TeaGosa
- Teffles Waffles
- Terra Nossa Enterprises
- The Candid Confectioner
- The Good Stuff
- The Juice Truck
- The Raw Guy
- The Workshop Vegetarian Cafe
- Thirsty Whale Elixir
- Tree Island Yogurt
- Trinity’s Tea
- Tubify
- Vancouver Urban Farming Society
- Whistler Elixirs
- Wilder Ginger Beer
- Willow House Farm
- Wize Monkey
- Woash Wellness
- Yellow Basket
- Yester Year Farms
- Yumasoy
Participant Industry Experts
- Ali Samei – Hippie Snacks
- Angie Quaale – Well Seasoned
- April Belia – Granola Girl
- Arran Stephens – Nature’s Path
- Ben Ernst – Earnest Ice Cream
- Brian Cade – Vancity
- Brian Saul – Brand Natural
- Catherine Anderson – Hidden Garden Foods
- Connie Marples – Boosh Food
- Corbin Burree – SPUD
- David Karr – Guayaki
- Erica Bernardi – Ernest Ice Cream
- Gail Mountain – Indigo Naturals
- Gayle Thom – Horizon Distributors
- Genevieve Pinto – Renewal Funds
- Georgia Stanley – British Columbia Association of Farmers Markets
- Ian Walker – Left Coast Naturals
- Ishkandar Amhed – Choices Markets
- Jenny Dickinson – UBC Sauder School of Business
- Julian Giacomelli – Rise Kombucha
- Kevin Greenwood – Marketing Expert
- Kurstin Leith – LBN Brands
- Laura Smit – Vancouver Farmers Markets
- Lyndsay Scott – Kindred Cultures Inc.
- Mauricio Lozano – Faculty Brewing
- Marcia Viana – Nature’s Path
- Mark Vickars – Choices Markets
- Max Rivest – Wize Monkey
- Melissa Mills – Spread Em’ Kitchen
- Mickey McLeod – Salt Spring Coffee
- Nancy Korva – Organic Meadows
- Nicole Bradbury – Renewal Funds
- Peter Joe – Sunrise Soya Foods
- Rick Kohn – Deloitte Canada
- Rory Holland – Knives & Forks Investment Coop
- Ryan Spong – Tacofino
- Sarah Clarke – FreeYumm Foods
- Scott Diguistini – Tree Island Yogurt
- Sonia Strobel – Skipper Otto
- Terri Newell – Horizons Distributors
- Terry Bremner – Bremner Foods
- Yves Potvin – Yves Cuisine
Collaborators & Beloved Partners
Sponsorship
Considering becoming a sponsor of Feeding Growth’s Scale your Progressive Food Business workshop series? A Feeding Growth sponsorship represents a key opportunity to reach your target market, elevate your brand, and connect your team with the movers and shakers of BC’s local food economy. Complimentary tickets, logo recognition, access to our broad networks for promotion, and opportunities to introduce your value proposition to a savvy group of more than 100+ creative business leaders are just a few of the benefits that come with your sponsorship.