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About Us

The Carleton Food Collective is a volunteer-run not-for-profit organization that started in 2001 as a response to food insecurity on campus. It has since expanded to address food security in the broader community and established a base of operations with a meeting space, commercial kitchen, and garden, the Garden Spot (or the G-Spot as it's fondly known). The Collective aims to promote food security by encouraging people to engage with and think about all parts of the food system: production, preparation, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Through this engagement, volunteers find sustainable alternatives to explore with the focus being on how we can take direct action to immediately create alternative ways of living within our community. Everyone needs to eat and so everyone has a connection to food security in some way. The collective centers this shared need in its organizing to operate around the principle of mutual aid and consider the work it does not as an act of charity but as work that benefits the Collective and its members as part of the community.