University of Victoria
OP-6: Food and Beverage Purchasing

These regular food suppliers are either located on Vancouver Island or in the Vancouver Lower Mainland ares (with 250 miles): Anything Grows Ltd. Assoc.Vict Pest Control B&C Food Bond Bond's Bakery Canterbury Foods Charelli's Cheese Shop & Delicatessen Columbia Fire & Safety Core-Mark Distributors Dan D Food DM Cakes Etc. Ecolab ENTZ-1 Distributors Eugene's Flowers on Top Freybe Gourmet Foods Garside Signs Golden Valley Honeybun Foods Hothouse Pizza Islands West K-Bro Linen (uniform/linen) Kenco Distrib. Ltd Lekker Food Dist. Ltd. M & J Frozen Foods Mark'sWork Wearhouse Morton Clarke Old Dutch Portofino Bakery PSC Natural Foods Rabbit River Farms Rock Creek Winery Russell Foods Saputo Foods Six Mile Bakery SQ Services Transcold Distributors Vancouver Island Pasta Verde Studio Victoria Box & Paper Westcoast Appliances Good Bite Bars Los Tosquitos Happy Plannet Kans Gourmet Foods English Bay Natural Pastures Chesse Melinda's Biscotti Weston Bakeries Lily Dale Poultry Farmhouse Poultry Fresh Pro Snow Moose ice cream company Blue Mountain Distributors

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Since UVic does not allow any chain or corporate food service contractors to operate on campus, it gives the Food Services group a lot of flexibility to support local food growers and producers. UVic purchases an estimated average of 50% of all our food from local suppliers, with 20 of 24 regular suppliers being based on Vancouver Island or Vancouver (within 100 miles). This has been accomplished by the Food Services staff through careful relationship and capacity-building with local farmers and small food producers (e.g. bakeries and pizza makers) to help enable them to be able to supply the university on a regular basis, at stable prices. In addition, for the past five years 100% of coffee purchased on campus and sold in all the food outlets has been organic and fair trade certified. UVic was also the first campus in Canada to sell coffee that is certified "Beyond Fair Trade" (Doi Chaang Coffee). All eggs used are "cage-free", all poultry is local from Vancouver Island, and no farmed salmon is sold anywhere.

This is done on an informal basis through periodic audits. UVic has a fairly small staff responsible for food purchasing, so it is not difficult to adhere to purchasing directives and practices to support local and sustainable food procurement.

Since UVic does not allow any chain or corporate food service contractors to operate on campus, it gives the Food Services group a lot of flexibility to support local food growers and producers. UVic purchases an estimated average of 50% of all our food from local suppliers, with 20 of 24 regular suppliers being based on Vancouver Island or Vancouver (within 100 miles). This has been accomplished by the Food Services staff through careful relationship and capacity-building with local farmers and small food producers (e.g. bakeries and pizza makers) to help enable them to be able to supply the university on a regular basis, at stable prices. In addition, for the past five years 100% of coffee purchased on campus and sold in all the food outlets has been organic and fair trade certified. UVic was also the first campus in Canada to sell coffee that is certified "Beyond Fair Trade" (Doi Chaang Coffee). All eggs used are "cage-free", all poultry is local from Vancouver Island, and no farmed salmon is sold anywhere. See here for more information: http://www.uvic.ca/services/food/home/sustainability/initiatives/index.php.