Our Shared Kitchen (picture by Religion Davis)
Good Work Austin
Good Work Austin helps native companies and trains employees to supply free, nutritious meals to the Austin group. They assist native companies with elevating wages to fulfill value of dwelling will increase, present advantages, and enhance working situations. Their group kitchen has distributed greater than two million meals since Might 2020 and stored greater than $10 million {dollars} within the native economic system.
Sustainable Food Center
The Sustainable Meals Middle connects households with native, small, and mid-sized farms to extend entry to wholesome, native meals whereas offering assets and training to finish meals insecurity and assist folks keep a nutritious diet. They provide free programs in cooking, diet, and gardening to assist overcome systemic limitations to nutritious meals, and their weekly Sunday farmers markets present reasonably priced, domestically sourced meals from small to mid-sized farms for the group.
The Training Kitchen
The Coaching Kitchen is a nonprofit 1.5 acre farm within the Manchaca space that gives contemporary meals to meals banks in addition to academic and coaching alternatives for the encircling group. They pay and make use of low-income residents to coach them in helpful farm and gardening abilities whereas additionally rising and packing contemporary substances into pantry gadgets to complement native meals banks.
Caritas Community Kitchen
Caritas of Austin’s Meals applications help folks transitioning out of homelessness by means of free, nutritious meals applications staffed by volunteers. Their pantry additionally offers take-home groceries and toiletries to purchasers.
Naturally Austin
Naturally Austin is the Austin department of the nonprofit Naturally Community, and is the one collaborative group for pure Shopper Packaged Items in Austin. They work to stimulate entrepreneurship whereas connecting Central Texas communities with pure, wholesome packaged items.
Our Shared Kitchen
Our Shared Kitchen delivers freshly made, nutritious meals to unhoused and food-insecure folks in Austin. They accomplice with native surplus organizations and make all meals from scratch to scale back meals waste and redistribute surplus meals from eating places and grocery shops to those that want it.
The Cook’s Nook
Tech entrepreneur and chef Joi Chevalier based this complete culinary incubator the place Austin-area artisans, caterers, and cooks can develop their companies whereas advancing meals entry, fairness, and sustainability. They accomplice with native organizations like Mosaic Meals to supply contemporary, wholesome meals to food-insecure and nutritionally challenged communities.
Keep Austin Fed
Hold Austin Fed has been rescuing and redistributing surplus meals to communities in want since 2004. Its volunteers rescue 1000’s of meals every month to scale back the quantity of meals that goes into landfills and feed folks combating meals insecurity.
Sunday Lunchbox
Sunday Lunchbox works to enhance entry to meals for households experiencing meals insecurity. Its Lunchbox Program delivers wholesome, kid-friendly meals which can be excessive in protein and good-for-you fat to households every Sunday. There are additionally gluten-free and dairy-free choices sourced from native companies.
Hungry Souls
1 out of 5 youngsters in Austin don’t know the place their subsequent meal is coming from. Hungry Souls companions with Central Texas faculties to supply faculty break and weekend meals for college students and their households to allow them to be taught and develop with out worrying about meals.
