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Featured Volunteer: Martha McCabe

I have been a part of the team cooking/ preparing food since April 2020. Before training and joining this team, I was doing what I could to get snacks, sandwiches, fruit, and love to the hundreds of the unsheltered community through grassroots connections. Our PB&J sandwiches were legendary, and we can do better! And DO.

We do better! With hot meals, nutritional sides and salads, And deserts. All determined by donations from farmers, backyard gardeners, gleaners foods, farm to table growers with a shrunken restaurant clientele, Redwood Empire food bank, and private donations. Each cooking day and menu is determined by what is available and donated—or even purchased at Safeway!

I love doing this service with my spiritual community. It is the Center of my social life during this time of COVID. Outside of Zoom! It is a sacred service anchored in prayer and love. We will likely never meet the people we cook for, yet their lives and well being are very present in my awareness.

We are incredibly fortunate to have an abundance of local, organic fruit, vegetables, and herbs. I'm satiated with gratitude, knowing that the meals we create are both nutritious And infused with our love.

A big THANK you to the Sebastopol Grange for the use of their kitchen. A lot of equipment and refrigeration have been added to accommodate our massive operation. I've attended many public events there over the years, and the building is alive with decades of community connection. As they are closed to all events, we are making sure this building continues to serve.

Blessings!

Martha McCabe

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