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“Within the past 12 months we worried our food would run out before we got money to buy more.”
“Within the past 12 months the food we bought just didn’t last and we didn’t have money to get more.”
If you identify with either of these statements, you may qualify to participate in Rx Food – receiving a prescription for fresh, healthy produce on a monthly basis through your family doctor, health care team, or specialized practitioner.
The doctors we work with are forward-thinking, creative, and willing to improve our health care system. They understand that innovative solutions are the only way we can tackle deep-rooted, generational problems. They believe in food as a force of change and stretch their practices to include it as medicine. Though Rx Food is still experimental and green, it is proving to be a synthesized method of support for household food insecurity through unique partnerships and preventative health care.
Food is medicine, and ensuring everyone has equal access to fresh, affordable, and healthy food is at the centre of the Rx Food program. We pair clients with local doctors that are thinking outside of the box, when it comes to the ways they treat, heal, and assess their patients. Health care should begin with a wholesome diet, and Rx Food is working to make that happen.
Rx Food sees doctors prescribing healthy, fresh produce to patients. It combines traditional medicine with social justice, nutrition, and community development, and it supports the local food system along the way. Based on years of lived experience and a dedication to the greater good, Rx Food is revolutionizing patient-centred health care, one bite at a time!
Please reach out to us for more information on this exciting community partnership!
Rx Food envisions a community where everyone has access to fresh, local, and affordable culturally-appropriate food, regardless of their circumstance, so we work with committed, forward-thinking health care practitioners, who prescribe food as medicine to their patients.
