Food Justice YEG Summit: From Project to Movement

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.


Wednesday, June 10, 2026

9 am - 4 pm

ArtsHub Ortona - 9722 102 Street NW Edmonton

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

FREE TO ATTEND.

Join the conversation. Drive the change.

REGISTER HERE

Summit Program and Intention

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Mobilize Action:  Shape strategies on key areas of focus around food advocacy:

    • Food Rescue & Waste Reform: Identify pilot pathways and next steps for policy changes and climate alignment.

    • 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. 

    • 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.

  • 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.


Other activities and information tables will be happening on site, so mark the date in your calendars and join us! We will also be serving lunch and light refreshments throughout the day.

The Food Security and Food Justice Ecosystem of Edmonton (FSFJE) project and the Food Justice YEG Summit has been made possible with generous funding from the City of Edmonton’s Community Safety and Well-Being grant.

The future of food in Edmonton starts here!

Check out the newly launched website that will be an online food hub and will feature the Edmonton Food Resource Map — which will be formally launched at the June 10 Summit — which will help folks find local free and low-cost food resources!

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