Fresh Food Access
Through active engagement of volunteers and partners, Loving Spoonful moves good fresh food across the city to ensure that it is accessible to all in Kingston & Area.
Since 2008, $1.94 million of fresh food has been collected from food donors and delivered to 52 locations!
The food we reclaim is all healthy and perishable: vegetables, fruit, baked goods, meats, dairy products and healthy prepared foods. All of this beautiful food passes both Loving Spoonful’s Healthy Food Guidelines and our moto that we only deliver it if it is fresh enough to feed our own families. People in poverty or struggling at a shelter need nothing less to cope.
Find out more about our Fresh Food Access program below:
FRESH FOOD SOURCES
Where does the fresh food come from?
Our donations of fresh food are sourced locally in various ways.
FRESH FOOD RECIPIENTS
Where does the fresh food go?
Donated fresh food directly goes to ensure that the most vulnerable in our communities have access to the supremely nourishing power of fresh, good food.
Local Community Agencies
When local community agencies receive fresh food, not only are they able to provide this nourishment to the people they serve, but they also free up some funds to go towards delivering their service programs, staffing their facilities, and keeping their operations going.
FRESH FOOD DELIVERY
Thank you to our volunteer Fresh Food Delivery Drivers! This wouldn’t work without you.
Join the brigade and help us to make sure everyone has access to fresh food! Click on the "Be a Volunteer Fresh Food Delivery Driver" button below to learn more about this volunteer opportunity, or email volunteer@lovingspoonful.org.
How does Fresh Food Delivery work?
Check out this video from YGK Experience as they ride along on one of our fresh food delivery routes!
"Thank you sooo much for the wonderful produce you delivered this past Tuesday. It was gone within a few minutes! The folks who received it were quite excited!"
ALLISON FROM CROSSROADS UNITED CHURCH
"My wife and I are having fun doing these. She was a prison nurse for 27 years and is very understanding of the folks at the recipient agencies. We feel that how they end up in these situations isn't the issue, but that anyone deserves good food and a friendly face."
VOLUNTEER FRESH FOOD DELIVERY DRIVER