Fresh Food February 2026
Let’s get Fresh this February and raise $30,000!
There are lots of ways to get involved and contribute to our $30,000 goal to keep the Campus Food Bank fresh this February!
Get planning your garden for the Spring and purchase your seeds through West Coast Seeds! It’s a win-win for all with 40% of sales coming back to the CFB. Seed sales open from February 1st - 21st
With our food procurement network, your dollars go further! Donate at the top of the page to keep families fresh this month
$40 provides fresh food for a family of 1 or 2 people
$60 provides fresh food for a family of 3 or 4 people
$80 provides fresh food for a family of 5 or 6 people
Come learn more about the CFB at our Open House on February 27th
Join us March 1st for a screening of Feeding Tomorrow (2024) at Metro Cinema with a portion of ticket proceeds supporting the CFB
Why do we need a Fresh Food February Fundraiser?
Across the country, more and more food banks are finding that they need to purchase food in order to provide adequate food to our community members, and the Campus Food Bank (CFB) is no exception; we are a part of the 80% of Canadian food banks that needed to purchase food in 2025 [1]. The ever-increasing usage of the CFB comes as no surprise to us, considering that food bank visits across Alberta have increased 21.8% within the past year [2] and that food costs across the country have inflated 25% over the past 4 years [3]. That level of food cost inflation is being felt by our community members; 73% of respondents to our most recent user survey cited rising grocery prices as driving them to access the CFB’s services. The CFB is also feeling the pressure from inflation, as just last year from February to August, we spent nearly $60,000 on food for our community.
We need your support, if we are to continue promoting food security in providing nutritious and fresh food to our community—an essential component of academic success [4]. Let’s work together to make sure that our community only ever hungers for knowledge, not food! We are aiming to raise $30,000 this February.
Help us fill our shelves and refrigerators with fresh food during these chilly months until we begin to receive produce donations. Just last year, we received over 3,000 lbs of produce from our local growers, like Prairie Urban Farm and Coyote Lake Lodge! But until that bounty is grown and harvested, we need to continue purchasing fresh food.
Food Banks Canada. (2025). Hunger Count 2025, p. 6. https://foodbankscanada.ca/hunger-in-canada/hungercount/
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For a review of studies on the impacts of food insecurity on academic performance, see Loofbourrow, B. M., & Scherr, R. E. (2023). Food Insecurity in Higher Education: A Contemporary Review of Impacts and Explorations of Solutions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20105884
