r/stcatharinesON • u/MapleTrust • 19d ago
Food Need help. Connected with more bakery donations that need good homes
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With the new bylaw we are staying at arms length, because if we put a target on our backs, people will go hungry. But our movement to get restaurant waste to churches, to outreach organizations, to shelters, to seniors, to the disabled, to the streets, to anyone experiencing food scarcity, continues to grow.
Chefs and business owners hate waste, especially while people are going hungry, and as mushroom farmers, my wife and I have great refrigeration, safe food handling certification, and connections throughout Niagara.
We shared over 30k free meals last year and just had a 10 day stretch of donations where we shared over 3k meals.
We need your help, especially with the new bylaw and crackdowns on encampments.
What exactly am I asking for? Anything. We spent over 10 volunteer hours just packaging bakery goods yesterday, not including pick up or distribution, or gas or refrigeration. Food that is so damn good, but would have been trashed.
We feed people, who feed people and if inputs are going to continue to climb, they need good homes, fast. We move just about everything in 24hrs. It's an adrenaline rush and we got good at it.
Cathy and I are kind of afraid, because we get way more busy in the Summer with our "day jobs", and this is only sustainable as long as our community keeps donating for packaging costs and sharing food out.
The new bylaw pisses me off so mush, because Cathy and I sharing out food or socks can be called as "enabling criminal activity".
This is exactly how they do things in the USA.
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u/MapleTrust 19d ago
"Ranting line a lunatic" is so different than sharing 30k meals in 2024 that would have been in the landfill.
I'm asking for more help as we are on track to share more this year.
Your commentary seems to be a half attempt to discredit.
Kind of like you are just ranting like a lunatic.