Located in the Davenport West neighbourhood in Toronto, The Stop Community Food Centre (The Stop) works to increase people's access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds community and challenges inequality.

This unique perspective brings together a number of approaches in the field of food security, melding respectful emergency food delivery with community development, social justice and environmental sustainability.

The Stop's programs and services focus on the ways food can bring people together to break down social isolation and improve their quality of life. Programming includes community kitchens and dining, urban agriculture, a food bank, drop-ins, civic engagement and pre- and postnatal nutrition and support. All of The Stop's efforts are based on the belief that food is a basic human right.

*Farmers' Market

*Dinners in Support of The Stop Community Food Centre

*2008 JANE JACOBS PRIZE RECOGNIZES FOOD AND COMMUNITY ADVOCATE NICK SAUL

*Video: "A Garden of Empowerment" on TheStar.com

*Annual Report 2006-2007

*Green Barn Update

* The Demographics of Hunger: Key Statistics from The Stop's Food Bank, 2006

*Strategic Plan: 2006-2011

*The Toronto Star's latest coverage of The Stop

*The Fall 2007 Edition of The Stop News

Click on the play button to start your tour of The Green Barn with The Stop’s Executive Director, Nick Saul.