The Essential Meals Project is on hiatus.
In 2020, the Essential Meals Project raised over $50,000, totaling over 6,000 donated meals. This donation-based initiative would not have been possible without your support and we could not be more grateful. Thank you to all who made donations and helped spread the word.
You can read more about the project below:
The Mission:
Feed the communities most impacted by the COVID-19 health crisis.
Our aim is to provide healthy meals to the most vulnerable among us. We've partnered with community organizations across the valley to make it happen. We invite you to join us in achieving our goal by contributing your financial support.
Every $10 donation provides one fresh meal to a person in need. It also keeps our staff employed and enables us to continue our mission of investing in our local food economy by sourcing from local farms.
$10 provides one meal, $500 provides 50 meals. Your donation matters and every cent helps. We're only as safe as the most vulnerable among us - so help us lift each other up!
Let’s work together.
Our objective is to support the people most severely impacted by COVID-19 - the homeless, children below the poverty line, low income communities for whom social distancing is more challenging - by providing them with healthy meals made with local produce. Our proposal is to use our skills, infrastructure, and resources to cook meals in bulk for those who need them.
Our goal is threefold. First, we will feed people who need food. Second, we will prepare those meals with meat and produce purchased from local farms to continue investing in our local food economy. And third, we will put food service professionals back to work in gainful employment. Every dollar that we raise in pursuit of this project will go towards operating costs (i.e., local farms and producers) and labor costs (i.e., local workers), and every output will go toward feeding people in need.
Who are we?
Wheelhouse is an Amherst-based catering and events company that focuses on sourcing local meat and produce from farms in and around Western Massachusetts. Founded in 2015, Wheelhouse is a values-driven business that prioritizes collaborating with local farms, non-profits, and businesses in order to support our local food economy.
Our background in catering has prepared us well to execute this goal, as we have years of experience in delivering thousands of meals to people off-site, at specific times, all over the region.
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Questions, thoughts, ideas? Please reach out to donations@wheelhousefarm.com
We’d love to hear from you.