Southcoast Food Policy Council News

The Cooks for Community program meals are offered through the Marion Institute’s Southcoast Food Policy Council. The initiative will run five days a week through June 5, providing a total of 2,180 hot meals to 109 people.

Thanks to additional funding, more people are receiving healthy meals each day, and the program will last for at least six weeks. The Institute is currently working on securing funding to pay for a seventh week of meals.

With Marion set on its own food program thanks to an effort by the town and school district, The Marion Institute joined an effort to fight food insecurity in Wareham.

Who else is selling directly to residents? As many farms start to ramp up their CSA programs, we encourage you to purchase a produce share at a farm near you. Check out (and support) SEMAP for more information on local farms and food producers. Also, the Marion Institute Southcoast Food Policy has put together a resource list, directly responding to the Covid-19 crisis. Check that out here.

MARION — The Marion Institute Southcoast Food Policy Council (SFPC) has launched “Cooks for Community,” a community-specific collaboration that works with service organizations and local restaurants in SouthCoast to ensure that at-risk populations have access to food from safe sources.

Lifelong Wareham resident John Decas and Southcoast Health have teamed up with the South Coast Food Policy Council at the Marion Institute to provide 100 food-insecure people in town with a hot meal from a restaurant five days a week for a month through the Cooks for Community program.