Food and Feeding Aid

Includes resources for students to get access to food for free or at a greatly subsidized rate.

List of Food and Feeding Aid

Food at UBC Vancouver

Sends out regular information on campus food events, promotions, special deals, nutrition resources, and more.

 

AMS Food Bank

The AMS Food Bank provides perishable and non-perishable foods, personal hygiene supplies, and information on additional resources in Vancouver to UBC students.

 

Acadia Food Hub

Acadia Food Hub is a community project targeted at supporting households with food and baby supplies.

 

 

UBC Sprouts

UBC Sprouts is a 100% volunteer and student-run organization at UBC whose goal is to make healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food accessible to everyone.

 

Agora Café

Agora Café is a student volunteer-run, non-for-profit café on the UBC campus that aims to provide affordable, accessible, healthy, local, and organic food choices.

 

UBC Farmers’ Market

The UBC Farmers’ Market is operated by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC and aims to provide students access to food grown at affordable prices.

 

UBC Food Hub Market

The food hub market allows you to shop at-cost grocery essentials on the Vancouver campus.

 

UBC Food Hub

The Food Hub Market allows you to shop at-cost grocery essentials on the Vancouver campus.

 

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Provides healthy food for free to individuals and families in need across Vancouver.

 

 

Food Stash Foundation Pedal to Plate

The Food Stash Foundation Pedal to Plate program is a registered charity in Vancouver that keeps surplus food from going to waste and delivers it to where it is needed.

 

Richmond Food Bank

The Richmond Food Bank is a dynamic hub that connects people, food, and services that are essential to health and well-being.

 

 

Peko produce

Peko Produce is a Western Canada – based distributor that delivers high-quality, odd-looking fruits and vegetables—often overlooked by major retailers – directly to consumers, championing sustainability, affordability, and food waste reduction.

 

Odd Bunch

Founded by UBC alumni in 2021, Peko Produce is Western Canada’s first “peculiar” produce-rescue delivery service, offering weekly 13+ lb mystery bags of cosmetically imperfect or surplus fruits and vegetables – at up to 40% below grocery store prices – to households across Metro Vancouver and Calgary, while donating $1 per box to food-rescue charities and advancing sustainable, affordable food access.

 

UBC Emergency Funding

Emergency and financial aid for unexpected financial needs including but not limited to food insecurity.

 

Questions?

For general inquiries on aid and questions, please email info@gss.ubc.ca