Chep programming

CHEP Good Food works with children, families, and communities to improve access to good food and promote food security. The organization has operated within a community development model for 35 years in Saskatoon. CHEP has a platform of 5 pillars of food security programming, research, and education:

1. Centralized Purchasing
2. Community Food Access
3. Community Food Skills & Education
4. Urban Agriculture & Gardening
5. Children’s Nutrition & Education 

Centralized Purchasing

Through the “Centralized Purchasing” program, CHEP supports local producers and wholesalers and receives a reduced rate for bulk purchasing, where, through the Bulk Buying program, CHEP delivers produce to nutrition programs in local schools, and other organizations and businesses in the community.

Community Food Access

Community Markets bring healthy food to neighbourhoods in the community where access to affordable fruits and vegetables and other pantry items is limited. Like social prescribing, the “Community Market Coupon” program operates in conjuction with the Community Markets.

Community Food Skills & Education

CHEP has a partnership with the Saskatoon Health Region and the Saskatoon Community Clinic to facilitate a Collective Kitchens program, offering nutrition education, budgeting, and enhanced cooking skills in the core neighbourhoods of Saskatoon. An in-house Community Nutritionist also facilitates educational presentations, workshops, and provides other resources.

urban agriculture & gardening

CHEP offers a youth urban agriculture internship called the askîy project which engages Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth in working to develop a small social enterprise through the growing, harvesting, and selling of fresh, local food. The organization also supports and provides education for the Community Garden network in Saskatoon and hosts a Communty Garden Club in the winter months.

Children’s Nutrition and Education

Through CHEP’s Centralized Kitchen program, fresh food is prepared and delivered to support schools in Saskatoon without in-house nutrition programs. CHEP also offers a Chefs in Training program which teaches safe food handling, kitchen safety, food preperation, and how to read recipes to children ages 10-15 at participating schools.
(See Centralized Purchasing above for more Children’s Nutrition & Education information)