Who We Are
No neighbor hungry,
no food wasted.
This is the vision at Cultivate Food Rescue. We work to reduce hunger and food waste in northern Indiana by recovering excess, quality food and redistributing it to school children, food pantries, shelters, and more. Through strategic partnerships, we are a leader in perishable food rescue, procurement, redistribution, and education in order to meet the nutritional needs of communities.
With our roots in culinary training, we know very well how food changes lives. After opening our doors in 2016, we quickly realized that we would have a lasting impact by doing our best to alleviate hunger in our community. Even further, we could do this by simply redistributing food that was ALREADY IN our community.
What We Do
Cultivate’s success is driven by our volunteers. Every day of the week, volunteers make our mission tangible.
In 2024, over 8,000 volunteers prepared and packaged 519,000 meals. Whether showing off their culinary skills in the kitchen, processing food into frozen meals on our volunteer assembly line, packing meals into backpacks, driving our rescue van to pick up food, helping at our fundraising events and yes, even washing dishes, our volunteers do it all!
Details
| (877) 725-2016 | |
| volunteer@cultivatefoodrescue.com | |
| Lisa Tageson | |
| Volunteer Coordinator | |
| https://cultivatefoodrescue.com/ |
