BC Food & Beverage

10/13/2026

One of our FAVOURITE nights of the year 🎉🏆 Celebrating BC’s food and beverage industry.

November 25 • Rise Awards Night • Delta Hotels Burnaby

Tickets ➜ bcfb.ca/rise-awards 🎟️

10/13/2026

For Circular Economy Month, we’re sharing ways to make surplus food go further:

• Find donation options in our new Surplus Food Recovery and Donation Guide, available in the member portal.

• Join our free Oct. 28 webinar to learn what organizations accept and how to get started. Sign up 👉 https://bcfb.glueup.com/event/webinar-from-surplus-to-solution-turning-food-waste-into-community-impact-192154

• Follow along as we spotlight BC organizations creating community impact through food recovery! ♻️

10/13/2026

10/09/2026

Big congratulations to our member ForestForDinner on opening their first retail space in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island! If you’re in the area, stop by for wild gifts, forest pantry items, mushroom-enriched coffee, wild herbal tea, and more!

10/09/2026

Our latest news is out! Yesterday we shared an update on our work related to the proposed Pacific Gateway Food Terminal (PGFT). If you haven’t had a chance to read it, you can take a look here: https://blog.bcfb.ca/bc-food-beverage-advances-pacific-gateway-food-terminal

We see this as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to strengthen BC’s food system and become a bigger part of Canada's food distribution infrastructure.

As we explore the need and viability of such a significant distribution infrastructure investment, we want to hear from the businesses it could potentially serve. We're asking that you please complete our Needs Assessment Survey as we build a proposal to make this a reality.

Complete the survey here ➡️ https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P5LG9KP
Survey closes October 21, 2026

10/08/2026

That’s a wrap on our final Sales & Marketing Peer Group of the year. For this session we were joined by some incredible panelists with experience in the biz - Miki of oomé, Mellisa of Spread'em Kitchen and Amiel of Big Mountain Foods. Big thanks to our panelists, our wonderful peer group chair Michelle and our sponsor, Great Little Box Company!

All attendees went home with some fun goodie bags filled with: Chocxo Chocolatier, Mindset Beverages & POPOFF. 😋

10/07/2026

We're thrilled to share BC Food & Beverage’s latest news release on advancing plans for the proposed Pacific Gateway Food Terminal, a roughly 750,000-square-foot food distribution, processing and innovation hub on an approx. 50-acre site in Metro Vancouver.

“British Columbia has extraordinary farmers, food manufacturers, seafood producers and entrepreneurs. This is an opportunity to give them the infrastructure needed to operate and grow at scale while strengthening Canada’s domestic food system.” - James Donaldson, CEO, BC Food & Beverage

Read it here ➡️ https://blog.bcfb.ca/bc-food-beverage-advances-pacific-gateway-food-terminal

10/06/2026

An appreciation post for Greater Vancouver Food Bank’s absolutely refreshing, and perfectly sweet, mandarin orange juice🍊• Made locally in partnership with Chasers Juice from 100% squeezed rescued fruit.👏

Greater Vancouver Food Bank’s CEO, David Long, is up for a Rise Award in the Leadership category this year! 🎉

10/05/2026

Today we’re featuring Farmer Ben's Eggs, a family-owned Cowichan Valley farm and the largest egg producer serving Vancouver Island since 1994! 🥚

Jennifer Woike, its senior leader, and the President of the BC Agriculture Council, is in the running for this year’s Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award!

The winners will be announced at our Rise Awards Night on Nov. 25th. Get tickets at the link in our bio. 🔗🏆

10/05/2026

Behind every business we talk about growing is a person trying to grow it. And that person matters too. Thought leadership from our COO, Alisa Hutton: https://blog.bcfb.ca/who-takes-care-of-the-person-everyone-else-depends-on