Our September Seedlings recipient is Sisters’ Camelot. Round up your purchases all month long to support their work.

Sisters’ Camelot is a collectively run nonprofit founded in 1997 that is focused on food justice, waste reduction, sustainable living, community building and youth education. They rescue food that would otherwise be wasted and share free organic groceries and meals with their community. 

Sisters’ Camelot distributes approximately 6,000-8,000 pounds per week of primarily organic groceries in the Twin Cities. They partner with a wide variety of community organizations that host food distributions and allow them to reach their unique populations. During the COVID-19 crisis, they have been working with volunteer bike couriers to deliver free groceries to those who are at higher risk of going out during a pandemic, such as the elderly and immunocompromised.  

They also serve free healthy prepared food from a vintage bus that has been converted to a licensed commercial kitchen. Their kitchen bus allows them to feed people, to nourish the relationships that come through preparing and eating food together and to impart the value of this to the next generation though their Young Chefs program, which has been put on pause to due COVID-19 but which they hope to resume when it is safe to do so. Throughout the pandemic, they have fed people at the George Floyd memorial site at 38th and Chicago as well as unhoused people living in local encampments.