Whom do we feed?
The working poor, seniors awaiting their next Social Security check, farmworkers, homeless children, and the disabled. Many don't have cars, so we drive to rural sites in Sonoma and Lake counties where we help them with food and connections to other social services.

Please donate now You can help thousands of people in need.

Rural Food Project, Lake and Sonoma Counties:
We purchase and distribute donated and supplemental foods to hundreds of families and people living at or below the poverty line, unable to reach urban food banks and pantries. We go beyond food, and connect people to needed services.

We distribute 26,000 pounds of food to 4000 people a month.

Links on Nutrition, Food and Hunger

More about The Rural Food Program
We operate five days a week in partnership with Redwood Empire Food Bank and many churches and community organizations.

Our frequent distribution sites
Our direct food distribution (purchase, packing, transportation, distribution):
Healdsburg, Fulton, Boyes Hot Springs, Sebastopol, Graton, Middletown and Kelseyville.

We also purchase food to be delivered by the REFB for sites in Cloverdale, Sonoma, Occidental, Guerneville and Windsor.

Call 528-2646 for Sonoma County distribution details

Lake County has two distributions.
Middletown: 21085 Bush Street, Middletown, on the third Wednesday of every month

Kelseyville: at Glebe Hall, St. Peter’s Church, on the fourth Monday of every month.

Both distributions are from 4:00pm – 6:00pm or until food runs out. For information call Linda at 528-8712 ext. 103.

NOTE: Food distribution change for February 2012:
Date Change for Kelseyville!!  Because the third Monday in February falls on President’s Day, we are moving our distribution date to Monday 2/27. 
For program iinformation call Linda, 528-8712 ext. 103.

We manage the U.S. D.A. government surplus food distribution in Sebastopol.

Meal sites for shelter residents
Family Support Center: three meals a day, serving up to
138 people daily and many hundreds more who stop
by for extra food and meals.
Project Nightingale and Homeless Services Center:
evening meals to homeless men and women, some
recuperating from serious illnesses.
Samuel L. Jones Hall: evening dinners for homeless
men and women; sack lunches for day laborers.

Rural Food Sonoma and Lake are recipients of United Way Community Impact Fund.

Photo: Rural Food in action - Graton distribution, Sonoma County

Photo: Rural Food, Middletown - staging in small donated garage