Received Food System Resilience Grant
St Mark’s-in-the-Valley was awarded $9,000 by SBCFAN’s Food System Resilience Grant program to support the launch of the Santa Ynez Valley (SYV) Community Kitchen.
Completed Renovations of SYV Community Kitchen
Delayed but undeterred by the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Mark’s Priest and Rector Randall Day and his team transformed their commercial kitchen into the SYV Community Kitchen. The vision for this community food access center was to increase local food security,…
St. Mark’s partnered with Veggie Rescue
Realizing that between their two organizations they had the tools (access to gleaned healthy produce and a fully equipped kitchen) to provide locally sourced nutrient dense meals to food insecure community members, Veggie Rescue and St. Mark’s teamed up to…
First Meals Delivered
Veggie Rescue recovered nearly 2,000 pounds of winter squash from Tutti Frutti Farms and decided it was time to activate the kitchen. Local chef Stephanie Valentine developed a butternut squash soup recipe and helped lead a group of volunteers in…
