Food Justice Edmonton Summit

Food Justice YEG Summit: From Project to Movement

Activating Edmonton’s Food Justice Ecosystem
You are invited to join a full-day summit, strategy gathering, and celebration marking the end of the Food Security and Food Justice Edmonton (FSFJE) project, a community-led movement for a resilient, equitable food ecosystem in Edmonton.

This is a space for everyone—project partners, community stakeholders, mutual aid groups, local growers, and the public—to contribute, celebrate, and commit to the future of food justice.

Free

Program and Intention of the Summit
The FSFJE Final Summit is focused on systems transformation, moving beyond emergency responses to building permanent, rights-based solutions. Our focus is a critical shift: From Charity to Rights. The day will frame what we learned from the project and identify what must change to tackle food insecurity, waste, and systemic gaps in Edmonton.

Key Summit Highlights:
1. Launch and Activate the Edmonton Food Resource Map: Learn about this valuable community resource through a live demonstration and share your input on where the Map should be embedded for visibility and integration into frontline services.

2. Hear from Community Leadership: Featuring a panel of mutual aid leaders, Grow team voices, and community members who will highlight lived experience, resilience, innovative solutions, and systemic barriers present in the current food ecosystem.

3. Mobilize Action: Shape strategies on key areas of focus around food advocacy:
a) Food Rescue & Waste Reform: Identify pilot pathways and next steps for policy changes and climate alignment.
b) Shared Kitchens & Infrastructure Access: Help map underused community kitchens and design a pilot model for a shared-use space for grassroots and mutual aid organizations.
c) Mobilizing the Grow Plan: Make a plan to influence local policies, especially at the city level, and create pathways to put the Grow Strategy into action.

4. Building Momentum Forward: The day concludes with a “Collective Harvest” of concrete next steps, leads, and timelines to carry the ideas and strategies of the day into action.

Join the conversation. Drive the change.

Venue has free parking, is wheelchair accessible, and has gender neutral washrooms.