A spacious factory building located at 808 Viewfield Rd. in Esquimalt got a major makeover that was revealed Saturday.

Seventy-eight companies, as well as 220 volunteers from HeroWork, spent over three weeks building an impressive industrial kitchen that will be the The Mustard SeedB次元官网网址檚 first food processing kitchen.

B次元官网网址淗eroWork is a charity that renovates other charities,B次元官网网址� said Paul Latour, Founder of HeroWork. B次元官网网址淲e do this in a way by mobilizing the entire community to come together, and mobilize around a building so it can be renewed in a very short period of time.B次元官网网址�

The kitchen is stocked with new stainless steel counters, stoves, ovens, vents, sinks, fridges, and ice machines to help staff and volunteers at The Mustard Seed use every bit of food donated, or recovered from grocery stores as a part of their B次元官网网址渇ood rescue program.B次元官网网址�

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B次元官网网址淲e still generate a bit of waste, so about eight per cent of the food that comes in still goes into the waste stream,B次元官网网址� said Derek Pace, interim executive director of The Mustard Seed. B次元官网网址淲e wanted to get a kitchen together so we could reduce that waste, and we could do that by making soups, stocks and sauces with those items that maybe we wouldnB次元官网网址檛 send out to our other [food donation] agencies.B次元官网网址�

This kind of processing will done by Mustard Seed staff and volunteers, but the kitchen will also be open to interested members of the community.

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B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 going to be open to other food-share network agencies that would like to do food literacy or canning workshops,B次元官网网址� Pace said.

Pace noted that with the new kitchen available, a lot more food will be saved and head towards those in need.

B次元官网网址淲ith this kitchen, we estimate we can save over 40,000 lbs of food in a year,B次元官网网址� he said.

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