The Common Good Soup Kitchen Community strives to:
* Provide local space to store and distribute raw whole grains and natural foods to local businesses and individuals
* Promote the use of local foods harvested from the sea as well as local produce
* Educate to teach easy preparation of whole foods and to promote dietary habits which foster health and wellness
* Help to provide jobs and build and maintain a sense of community all year round
* Provide a model of green, eco-friendly living
* Provide affordable natural food through keeping our costs down and via discounts and rebates to members
* Help other local charities and service organizations
* Produce healthy, delicious soup and whole food salads for sale to support our programs
* Operate a self-serve cafe that utilizes the skills of our master chef in preparing delicious natural food
* Continue to distribute free soups and whole food salads to senior residences and others
Volunteers
click here for a sign-up sheet
click here for the entire volunteer packet issued on 6.9.09
Soup Events
at the Common Good Soup Kitchen
Soup Events and weekly distributions will continue through the end of April. A selection of healthful, nutritious soups will be served along with live music or other forms of entertainment--creating a place for people to come together on a regular basis during the "quiet" months. The “soup with soul” program will continue, where one can pick up soup in containers and deliver it to senior residences and others who can not get down to the event. As long as the supply lasts, anyone who comes to the event can also take home soup for themselves or others.
November events will take place from Noon to 2 PM on Fridays at our Seawall location—the site of the former Annabelle’s Seawall Dining Room at 566 Seawall Road. The open feel and attractiveness of this spot make it an especially good place to bring people together and boost everyone’s spirits in the bleaker months. Everyone will be welcome at these events, regardless of age.
The fundraisers, special events and café operations in the summer and early fall, plus our community of volunteers, should enable us to hold free soup events and deliver soup free of charge all winter. We are hoping to change what people think of when they hear the words ‘soup kitchen’—at the Common Good it is a place for fun as well as food, an attractive space for the community to enjoy, for folks to gather, interact and help each other.
At the opening Soup Event which gets underway at 12 noon on Friday, November 6, Chuck Donnely and Emma Walsh will be providing live musical entertainment in the form of Celtic guitar and fiddle. As is planned for all future Soup Events, there will be both vegetarian soups that contain no animal products whatsoever, and meat (or seafood) based soups as well, always using as organically based and locally produced or harvested ingredients whenever possible. A volunteer cadre of chefs is being formed to rotate in the production of soup for the weekly events. Chef Bill will continue to advise and to contribute when and as he can. Call 266-2733 for more information, or to inquire about becoming a volunteer chef/cook for the Common Good. Look for the “Soup Today” sign in the parking area near the road down at Seawall every Friday starting in November. |
