SISTERS CAMELOT
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Mission Statement
Sisters’ Camelot is a collectively-run nonprofit founded in 1997 that is focused on food justice, waste reduction, sustainable living, community building, and youth education. We rescue food that would otherwise be wasted and share free organic groceries and free organic meals with our community.
About This Cause
Sisters’ Camelot is a non-hierarchical collectively-run nonprofit that has been nourishing our community since 1997. We serve our community through two primary programs. One is that we distribute approximately 8,000 pounds per week (200 tons per year) of mostly organic groceries in the Twin Cities. We vary distribution locations to serve people where they are, particularly in food deserts. We partner with a wide variety of community organizations that host food distributions and allow us to reach their unique populations. These include arts organizations, tribal/indigenous organizations, cultural centers, libraries, churches, and more. We have volunteer bike couriers who deliver free groceries to homebound people who are elderly, disabled, or experiencing a mental health crisis. We also supply bulk food to a number of food shelves and nonprofit community kitchens cooking meals for the unhoused and others in need. Secondly, we serve free healthy prepared food from a vintage bus that has been converted to a licensed commercial kitchen. Our kitchen bus allows us to feed people, to nourish the relationships that come through preparing and eating food together, and to impart the value of this to the next generation. Our bus has a longstanding presence at various community events such as May Day and the Barebones Halloween Extravaganza. We hold ongoing community meals to bring people together at the George Floyd memorial site at 38th and Chicago, as well as cooking for our unhoused neighbors. We also partner with Hennepin County and the University of Minnesota to provide meals at local community gardens in areas with limited access to healthy food. We believe that access to fresh, healthy food is a human right and not only reserved for those who have housing and financial security. The food we distribute and cook is rescued from the waste stream. Any produce that is too damaged to use is composted in local gardens, and we recycle the pallets and cardboard used to package the food. Thus our programs both prevent massive amounts of food waste and provide healthy, nutritious food for people in our community who might not otherwise be able to obtain it.