How It Works

FARM TO TABLE SOLUTIONS FOR FOODSERVICE!

Fireweed Food Hub is an easy, one-stop shop for food service and retail to access the best in-season, local, sustainable foods, year-round! We offer a simple-to-use online ordering system, excellent customer service, free in-city delivery, and flexible billing options. Read on to discover the benefits of becoming a Food Hub customer!

EASY
SIGN UP

Register as a Food Hub customer today! We’ll be in touch to schedule a quick customer intake call to find out how we can best serve your needs and then you can begin browsing products on our online store!

SIMPLE
ORDERING

Place your order during our designated ordering period for weekly delivery: Thursday to Monday for Wednesday or Thursday delivery.

FREE
DELIVERY

Deliveries are typically between 11 am and 5 pm and are free within the city.

FAIR
PRICING

We strive to provide a fair price to both our suppliers and our customers. At least 80% of your price goes directly to the producer. The remaining 20% is used to run the Food Hub.

FULL
TRANSPARENCY

Every product at Fireweed is guaranteed to be local and sustainable. We offer full transparency on the product’s farm origin and production methods. We want to help you translate that value to your customers as well— check out our Resources page for table service booklets and more, or learn more about our producers here.

Having a co-op like Fireweed is so amazing because there is no way I would have the time to reach out or call different farmers!
– The Roost
The Food Hub has streamlined the process of sourcing local, resulting in us being able to better support local food producers while also providing our community members with greater access to fresh, local, high-quality produce.

– NorWest Co-op Community Food Centre
It’s shocking the difference in quality! It’s [made me] reimagine how great food can be! And how you can directly support farmers at the same time– like everybody is winning!

– Beer Cantina
These high quality items we receive through the food hub provide opportunities for our community members to connect more with each other, and with our local food systems, in a deeply meaningful way.

– West Central Women’s Resource Centre

How your purchase is strengthening Manitoba’s food system

Purchasing from Fireweed Food Hub is more than just buying local— it’s supporting the development of cooperatively owned infrastructure that, over time, will foster more opportunities for eaters and producers of local, sustainably-grown food in Manitoba.

FAQs

A Food Hub is the general name for a community-based economic model that aggregates food products from a region and provides a central channel (or hub) through which they are sold to regional buyers. It can look very different depending on the model.

Fireweed Food Hub operates as a nonprofit wholesale cooperative Food Hub, where Producer Members of our Co-op can become Food Hub suppliers and sell their products through our online platform to wholesale buyers such as restaurants, institutions, grocery stores, community organizations and more.

You do not need to become a co-op member to be a wholesale customer of the Food Hub.

Fireweed sources exclusively from our Producer Co-op Members who are all small-scale farmers, ranchers, fisherfolk and food producers in our region which includes Manitoba, NW Ontario and Nunavut.

We choose to work with suppliers who are dedicated to continually improving their operation’s ecological and social resiliency through spray-free and Organic Certified growing, crop rotation, ethical and sustainable harvesting methods, free-range meat production, and fair pay for farm labourers. Learn more about our suppliers.

We are dedicated to providing a transparent supply chain in all our operations and we never purchase from third party distributors.

To register as a customer of the Food Hub, click here or on “Shop” in the site menu above. Then, click Register, select your customer type and complete the registration steps. Our sales coordinator will then contact you and introduce themselves and the food hub. After registration you can login to our online store and start browsing the local products!

You can also email Laura to set up a customer intake call at sales@fireweedfoodcoop.ca or schedule a call here

To become a Supplier to the food hub, check out our Supplier Information page or email Lex at suppliers@fireweedfoodcoop.ca

Where To Find Our Products

You can enjoy delicious, sustainably produced local food and support our work by visiting any one of our restaurant and retail customers:

We also bring local food to community organizations and schools, like NorWest Community Food Centre, Tunngasugit Inuit Resource Centre, the Winnipeg Community Fridge, Good Food Club, Ecole Leila North Community School, and Tiger Cafe at St John’s High School.

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