Surplus Food Solutions for Manufacturing

Join thousands of Canadian businesses turning surplus into impact with Second Harvest

Surplus happens. Let’s make it count.

Whether it’s a single pallet or multiple trailer loads, Second Harvest is your free one-stop solution — making it easy to safely and efficiently redirect surplus food at no cost within our verified non-profit network. Our distribution model combines owned assets and third-party transportation and warehousing partners enabling us to move large volume, time-sensitive donations at scale.  

We handle end-to-end donation logistics ensuring traceability, food safety compliance and impact reporting — helping your business reduce operational costs, protect brand integrity and reach your ESG goals.  

As Canada’s largest food rescue organization, we also partner with processors and manufacturers to transform bulk surplus food into products ready for redistribution.  

Do you have surplus food?

We manage end-to-end donation logistics at no cost, moving surplus food from your facility to verified non-profit partners serving communities nationwide.

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Can you transform food?

We’re investing in regional processing and co-packing partnerships across the country to transform food into products that prolong shelf-life, preserve value and can be easily absorbed into our non-profit network.


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In Canada, Second Harvest and its partners rescued and redistributed 95.3 M lbs of food in 2025, averting 309 M lbs of GHGs.