Feed Louisville

Feed Louisville Our mission is to prevent perfectly good food from going into the landfill and use it to make beautiful meals for our unhoused and food insecure community.
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We reduce hunger while reducing food waste.

Louisville has one day each year when the generosity of our community comes into full view. Give for Good Louisville is ...
08/24/2026

Louisville has one day each year when the generosity of our community comes into full view. Give for Good Louisville is 16 days away, and we’re asking you to consider making Feed Louisville part of your giving this year.

At Feed Louisville, your support helps keep good food moving through our community. We rescue surplus food from restaurants, retailers, caterers, and other food partners, purchase food from local farmers, prepare nutritious meals in our kitchen, and work with community organizations to get those resources where they are needed.

Your gift supports more than a meal. It helps strengthen the connections between farmers, food businesses, chefs, volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve.

On Give for Good, consider investing in a food system that reduces waste, supports local agriculture, and helps Louisville communities access nutritious food.

16 days. One city. One opportunity to show what community can do together.

Mark your calendar and make Feed Louisville part of your Give for Good this year.

Learn more about Feed Louisville at www.feedlouisville.org

We believe strong food systems begin with strong relationships between the people who grow food and the communities they...
08/22/2026

We believe strong food systems begin with strong relationships between the people who grow food and the communities they feed.

We’re grateful to Kentucky Greens Co. for working alongside Feed Louisville and helping bring fresh, locally grown food into the Louisville community. From delicate microgreens to large, leafy greens, their variety adds fresh, nutritious options to the food moving through our network.

Partnerships with growers like Kentucky Greens are part of how Feed Louisville is building a stronger local food system. By creating more connections between Kentucky farmers, local kitchens, community organizations, and the people we serve, we can expand access to fresh food while strengthening food security for everyone.

Local farms. Local food. Stronger communities.

Interested in working with Feed Louisville or learning more about our farm partnerships? Visit FeedLouisville.org to learn more.

Each week, our team diverts thousands of pounds of nutritious food from the landfill. We prepare what can be used for me...
08/20/2026

Each week, our team diverts thousands of pounds of nutritious food from the landfill. We prepare what can be used for meals, and work to find productive uses for what remains. Our kitchen vegetable scraps and other inedible food go to a local farmer as food for his pigs. That partner is retiring, and we are looking to donate the food scraps to a new partner.

We donate approximately 3,000 pounds of produce scraps and damaged fruits and vegetables each week, along with 150–600 pounds of bread. All packaging is removed before the food is placed into barrels. The partnership would require pickup at least twice a week and the return of clean barrels for continued use.

After feeding humans, animal food is second in recommended uses for surplus food on the EPA Wasted Food Scale. We love being able to support our local farmers by providing this nutrient-rich source of food for animals.

Interested farms can contact Chef Callie at [email protected] to learn more or discuss whether this partnership is a good fit.

So far this year, our food rescue efforts are up 35%, with more than 310,000 pounds of food recovered and an estimated $...
08/18/2026

So far this year, our food rescue efforts are up 35%, with more than 310,000 pounds of food recovered and an estimated $1.2 million in food kept out of the landfill and redirected as a community resource.

That food comes from across our local food system, including What Chefs Want, Humana, Brown-Forman Brands, Kentucky farmers, caterers, local restaurants, and other food partners. Our team rescues it, brings it into our kitchen, and through our distribution network, ensures it reaches people instead of going to waste.

At the same time, the number of meals moving into our community has increased by 12%. Much of that food and those meals are distributed through our network of feeding partners, including Snapback, Volunteers of America Mid-States, The Hope Village, and many others who work directly with people experiencing hunger and homelessness.

And as the need has grown, so has the response. Volunteerism is up, with more people stepping forward to help us rescue, prepare, pack, and distribute food across Louisville.

These numbers represent more than pounds, dollars, or meals. They represent a community food system working together to make sure good food moves through our community instead of going to waste.

There is more work ahead, and we need our community with us.

Visit FeedLouisville.org to learn more, get involved, or make a donation to help us continue this work.

We are so excited to participate in our third Taste of Louisville and hope to see you there!This year, Feed Louisville i...
08/17/2026

We are so excited to participate in our third Taste of Louisville and hope to see you there!

This year, Feed Louisville is proud to be one of the event’s nonprofit partners. When you purchase your Taste of Louisville tickets through our link, your ticket helps support our work — and if we sell 100 tickets, we can unlock up to $10,000 for Feed Louisville.

Here is our link: https://www.etix.com/ticket/c/3D2D382F4DDAA03CF65859180AB2EF66/taste-of-louisville-feed-louisville

Taste of Louisville is one of the city’s biggest celebrations of local food and drink, bringing together Louisville’s r...
08/17/2026

Taste of Louisville is one of the city’s biggest celebrations of local food and drink, bringing together Louisville’s restaurants, chefs, distilleries and more for one delicious night.

This year, Feed Louisville is proud to be one of the event’s nonprofit partners. When you purchase your Taste of Louisville tickets through our link, your ticket helps support our work — and if we sell 100 tickets, we can unlock up to $10,000 for Feed Louisville.

Help us hit 100.
October 14 •Mellwood Art Center

https://www.etix.com/ticket/c/3D2D382F4DDAA03CF65859180AB2EF66/taste-of-louisville-feed-louisville

08/14/2026

A stronger community begins with listening.

Every day, organizations across Louisville meet people where they are, providing street outreach, case management, shelter, food, and other resources that can make the difference between getting through the day and going without.

Feed Louisville is proud to support many of these street outreach and client service partners by helping ensure they have nutritious food resources to share with the people they serve. That work is one part of a larger network of organizations working together to respond to homelessness with dignity and practical support.

The Coalition for the Homeless has helped bring together this series of conversations, creating space to examine homelessness through lived experience, community work, and the realities behind the assumptions we often make.

On Saturday, August 22, from 1–3 p.m., join us at Moremen Gallery for the next community conversation surrounding *In Plain Sight: Canaries of the American Soul*, a photography exhibition by Ed White documenting the lives and experiences of our unhoused neighbors over the years.

Feed Louisville Executive Director Rhona Bowles Kamar will join other community voices to discuss the work happening across Louisville and what a better way forward can look like.

Moremen Gallery
710 W. Main St., Level 2
Louisville, KY
August 22 | 1–3 p.m.

Come listen. Come learn. Come be part of the conversation.

Because addressing homelessness takes more than one organization. It takes a community willing to see, listen, and work together.

Registration Link: https://secure.everyaction.com/TZUocfHguUWswNWIh5JcIA2

08/12/2026

The annual food insecurity data recently released by Feeding America is hard to sit with. The data shows what our team is well aware of daily: too many of our community members don’t have adequate access or income to meet their food needs.

We feel this firsthand every day when our feeding partners ask us to increase the number of meals we prepare for the community. We feel it when we have to have hard conversations about how to best share the resources coming into our doors. We feel it when we see our shelves unusually empty because as fast as we bring food in, we are sending it right back out to the community.

We feel the frustration of knowing we have built a kitchen that can produce thousands more meals a day than we do. That there are still thousands of pounds of perfectly good food going to the landfill, while we have the logistical system set up to take that food in and get it right back out to people who need it.

We feel it when we talk to our Kentucky farmers who are growing food, or could grow more, but can't solve the problem of food insecurity alone. We are frustrated by the fact that we can’t serve more people every day even though we have the will, and the system, to do so.

As you listen to the data and wonder what can be done, we could use your help. We can rescue more food, feed more people. We need the community to do what you’ve always done: support with dollars, food resources, and volunteering.

Visit our website to find out how.

www.feedlouisville.org

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The Berry Center, Our Home Place Meat, and Feed Louisville are working together to share local food where it’s needed mo...
08/10/2026

The Berry Center, Our Home Place Meat, and Feed Louisville are working together to share local food where it’s needed most.

This partnership connects Kentucky farms with Louisville families through a model that supports farmers, increases access to nutritious food, and strengthens local food security.

Friends, if you are interested in supporting feeding efforts towards a more healthy and prosperous city and countryside here in the greater Louisville area, we are glad for your support. Visit berrycenter.org/localfarms to contribute today.

The first spring of the Covid-19 pandemic hit our local farmers hard, especially our immigrant urban growers. The Khamis...
08/08/2026

The first spring of the Covid-19 pandemic hit our local farmers hard, especially our immigrant urban growers. The Khamisi Family Farm, who grow food on property in the south end of Louisville, had just started to sell at the Douglass Loop market in previous years.

That market quickly pivoted, and farmers set up online sales and distributed to customers in their cars on Saturday mornings. For farmers without an online store, sales dropped to almost nothing.

The Khamisi Family was one of several farms that began sharing their surplus produce with us, dropping off cases of produce to the kitchen weekly. We used whatever funds we could get to help offset a fraction of what they would have earned during regular market days.

This commitment to supporting our hunger relief work endears us to the Khamisi family, who continue to be partners today.

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