Campbell employees in Canada Help Grow their Community

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Campbell employees show their Community spirit at the Daily Bread Food Bank (DBFB) Community Garden shed-raising and garden clean-up event.

On October 16, employees from various departments at Campbell Canada gathered to help raise a new shed at the Daily Bread Food Bank’s Community Garden. The garden is planted, tended, and harvested by local community groups, including LAMP, Women’s Habitat, and DBFB.

“This event was a perfect way to put our Campbell Beliefs into action, specifically our Belief that we are responsible for what we take from the earth and what we put back into it,” said Melanie Rockliff, Manager – Corporate and Brand Communications.  “Employees showed amazing energy at the event, bringing our commitment to environmental sustainability to life.”

In addition to building a shed that will store all the gardening tools, hoses, and wheel barrows that were formerly stored in DBFB offices, employees also worked in the garden pulling weeds, turning over soil, and digging up grass. Thanks to their hard work, the garden is now more than 30 per cent larger than its initial size!

Funding for the Community Garden project came from Campbell’s Green Toronto award for Water Efficiency in April 2009; Campbell donated the $5000 prize to DBFB to purchase a shed and garden supplies.

“I am proud of what has been accomplished out in Daily Bread’s Growing for Change Community Garden in one short year thanks in large part to Campbell Canada,” said Gail Nyberg, Executive Director of DBFB. “A garden means much more than simply food to the people who use it – it also serves as a tool to reach out to a larger community, to learn how to share, teach, listen and work together for something more than just yourself.” 

More about Campbell Canada’s partnership with Daily Bread Food Bank
In addition to the annual one million pounds of food that Campbell has donated over the last five years to Food Banks Canada, Campbell was recognized as the top food donor at Daily Bread Food Bank this year. Campbell also participate in annual food sort competitions including the 24-Hour Food Sort, coming up this fall.