Grape Witches using their platform to raise money for FoodShare Toronto

Written By

Mimosa Nguyen

almost 4 years ago

Toronto's beloved wine duo, Grape Witches teamed up with Paul Taylor of FoodShare Toronto for an Instagram takeover yesterday to discuss his work and how the community can get involved in the fight towards food security and eliminating poverty.

FoodShare Toronto is one of Canada's largest non-profit food security and food justice organizations whose mission is to make good, healthy food accessible to all through community-led projects.

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TAKEOVER ALERT! Delighted to welcome @paultaylorto of @foodshareto this Saturday on our gram to share his important community work and what you can do to get involved. Paul is a nonprofit leader, anti-poverty activist and the executive director of @foodshareto, one of Canada’s largest food security organizations. Growing up materially poor in Toronto, Paul has spent his life working to eliminate poverty, fighting for worker’s rights and standing up for the most marginalized. We have long admired Paul’s incredible community activism in close by Parkdale and much beyond and are delighted to have him! In honour of the takeover we’re doing a NATURAL WINE DREAM PACK raffle with 100% of money raised to @foodshareto. Check the second slide for pics and head to the link in bio to swoop a ticket. $10 for one, $20 for three. We choose a winner Saturday morning at 10! Photo by @dan_neuhaus.

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In honour of the takeover event, Grape Witches hosted a Natural Wine Dream Pack raffle with 100% of the money raised donated to FoodShare Toronto. The Natural Wine Dream Pack included six natural wines including wine from Forlorn Hope, Gut Oggau and Domaine Bobinet.

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Extremely grateful to the voices speaking out against white supremacy in our society and in the hospitality industry. More soon on some concrete and sustained actions to make our organization more anti-racist. Meanwhile, a release we’ve been waiting for anxiously. @koppitschwine skin contact Homok and juicy, wonderful Rosza. Two absolute favourites. 100% of today’s profits to @whiwhchc and @abmentalhealthcentre. Link in bio. UPDATE: MIXED PACKS SOLD OUT, LOVELY ROSZA REMAINS.

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This isn't the first time the natural wine shop is giving back to the community. Grape Witches have donated profits from their mixed packs to local not-for-profit organizations including WHIWH, a community health centre which provides primary healthcare to women of colour, the Toronto Prisoner's Rights Project, supporting prisoners re-integrating into the community as well as those still behind bars and Across Boundaries Mental Health Centre, to name a few.

Grape Witches is an inspiring reflection of community activism and how we can use our platform and privilege to give voice to and fight for the marginalized communities among us.

We’ll see you in there.