Programs

Six ways we show up for the Northside.

Every program is free, open to anyone, and run by neighbors. Pick one to see times, locations, and how to join in.

Programs

Three ways we feed the Northside.

Each one is free, run by neighbors, and open to anyone who walks through the door.

Grocery pantry

Fresh produce, dairy, and staples you pick yourself, five days a week.

Thursday dinner

A hot meal for 200 at long tables. Kids eat first. Seconds are expected.

Alder Street garden

86 family plots and a teaching bed where kids learn to grow their lunch.

Volunteer planting seedlings with two children

Garden program

Kids who grow it, eat it.

Every Saturday from April to October, kids plant, weed, and harvest their own bed. At the end of the morning they cook what they picked with a volunteer chef.

  • Free, with snacks and aprons provided
  • Parents welcome to stay and dig in
  • Every child takes home a seedling
Kids ages 5–12
Who

Parents welcome

Alder Street garden
Where

Behind the pantry

Saturdays, 9–11 a.m.
When

April to October

Free
Cost

Snacks included

Thursday dinner

Two hundred plates, one long table.

Volunteers cook from scratch with whatever the garden and the pantry have that week. Kids eat first. Seconds are expected. Nobody checks who's a guest.

  • Every Thursday, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
  • Fellowship hall, 418 Alder Street
Volunteers cooking
Community dinner under string lights
Two people talking over coffee

A different kind of pantry

What does it take to feed a whole family?

Groceries are the start. Families also need time together at the table, someone to ask about school, and a place where a grandfather can teach the recipes he grew up with. That's what we're really building on Alder Street.

Grandfather and grandson reading at a lamp-lit table

Bring your team for a Saturday shift.