Food Web

07/27/2026

Sitting with Barrett from Almonak | North End, Halifax getting them listed on Food Web. You’ll soon be able to rent their kitchen! Whether you want to do a pop up dinner, or your a farmers market vendor who needs a certified kitchen, Almonak | North End, Halifax will soon be book able for your kitchen needs! Thanks Barrett for joining the network.

07/10/2026

06/25/2026

We will have more info on this later, but I wanted to start getting the word out.

Food Web was awarded a $25,000 grant by Feed Nova Scotia for their Prototype Grant Stream. This stream of funding is intended to fund, research, develop, deploy, and execute on novel solutions to Food Security.

What we proposed: Establishing a pool of funds as "credits" on Food Web to fund underprivileged and financially constrained individuals.

The Context: One of the things Justin Andrews and Keegan Francis noticed when talking to early stage food entrepreneurs, was they were trying to solve the chicken and egg problem of having a product to sell at the market to make money to rent a kitchen. We're breaking that cycle and with the help of Non-Profits like RANS, we're able to establish a funding pool to help get more local food businesses off the ground.

The Solution for Kitchens: Forming an extra revenue line for cafes, restaurants, churches, community centers, fire halls, etc has never been closer. There is now a pool of funds waiting for YOU to engage with at Food Web. Head over to https://foodweb.network/signup and get yourself listed on our platform. In a time when restaurants/cafes are failing left/right/center, monetizing your unused kitchen time could be the saving grace.

The Solution For Renters: Applications for funding are now open! If you or someone you know is trying to get a food business off the ground, point them to us! We'll get them sorted and into a kitchen that meets their needs.

https://foodweb.network/credit-program/apply

03/25/2026

Most kitchen owners assume renting out their space is complicated. Permits, liability, finding the right people — it sounds like a lot.

The setup is actually pretty simple.
1️⃣ You sort the permits and insurance once.
2️⃣ You decide your own rules.
That's it on your end.

Food Web takes care of the rest — your listing, the renters, the bookings.
👉 foodweb.network/provide-kitchen

03/22/2026

Mushrooms and humans both seek efficiencies. But they handle the gains completely differently.

When a mycelial network finds an efficiency, the resources get redistributed across the whole network. When a human finds one, the gain tends to concentrate with whoever found it.

Justin uses this as a lens for thinking about economic systems, food infrastructure, and what a genuinely collaborative network looks like. Episode 10 goes deep on it.

What do you think — can we build human systems that distribute the way mushrooms do?

03/21/2026

When supermarket shelves emptied in Venezuela, people started growing food in their backyards.

Verónica from Hope Blooms grew up watching this happen. The crisis was real — but so was the response. Neighbours sharing what little they had. Communities feeding each other because there was no other option.

She says: in every community going through a crisis, you see that happen. It's good to be reminded of the kindness of people.

That's what Episode 8 of the Food Web Podcast is about. Worth a listen.

03/20/2026

Every single time you spend money, it's a vote.

Justin says he believes this completely — and not as a catchy phrase. He thinks it's more powerful than the vote you cast in an election. Because spending happens every day, multiple times a day, and every dollar shapes what businesses survive, what food gets produced, and what communities get built.

Where are your dollars going?

03/18/2026

Students spend months building a better proposal for their campus food contract.

Local vendors, healthier options, real community benefit. Then someone in the student union signs the deal with the big company anyway.

It happens over and over. Concordia. Dalhousie. Same story.

Justin's take in Episode 11: writing the better report isn't enough. You have to understand what the person with signing authority ACTUALLY needs and build that into the deal.

It's negotiation, not just advocacy.

A little schmooze goes a long way....

03/18/2026

The food system we grew up with - local farms, community markets, neighbours growing food for neighbours - THAT was a network.

Resilient, Distributed and Rooted in place!

Food Web is about rebuilding the network.