Feed Tahoe Feed Tahoe’s homeat The Atrium

Community · 1,222 sq ft

FeedTahoe Food Storage

A dedicated home for all our food rescue operations.

How a rescue moves Visit Feed Tahoe
A food storage room: steel prep sinks, a rolling cart, two walk-in coolers and wire shelving stacked with boxes and bins
an imagined scene, not a photo The Atrium is under construction now.

Ideas for this room

  • Repack a pallet of rescued foodFor partners across town
  • Train as a food-rescue volunteer
  • Stock the emergency walk-inTahoe’s only one

Why it’s here

1,222square feet

A home base for FeedTahoe that makes large food rescues easy and brings volunteers together. With pallet-scale storage and repackaging space, FeedTahoe can accept more donations, reduce food waste, and move more good food to partners across South Lake Tahoe. This will include Tahoe’s only dedicated walk-in emergency food storage space, to help our community respond quickly to food insecurity, severe weather, and urgent needs.

On the floor

The kit

  1. Walk-in fridge and freezer
  2. Dry pallet shelving
  3. Pallet jack
  4. Food repackaging stations
  5. Prep tables and sinks
  6. Blast chiller
  7. Washer/dryer
  8. Storage closet

How a food rescue moves

From a donation to a neighbor’s table.

A home base for FeedTahoe that makes large food rescues easy. Here is the journey through the room.

  1. Step 1: Rescue

    A big donation comes in.

    Pallet-scale storage means FeedTahoe can say yes to large food rescues, and accept more donations.

  2. Step 2: Keep

    It stays fresh.

    A walk-in fridge and freezer, a blast chiller and dry pallet shelving keep good food from going to waste.

  3. Step 3: Repack

    Volunteers repack it.

    Repackaging stations, prep tables and sinks turn pallets into parcels, and bring volunteers together.

  4. Step 4: Share

    It reaches partners across town.

    More good food moves out to partners across South Lake Tahoe.

  5. Step 5: Ready

    And it’s there when Tahoe needs it most.

    Tahoe’s only dedicated walk-in emergency food storage, to help our community respond quickly to food insecurity, severe weather and urgent needs.

Feed Tahoe today · since October 2024

Rescued, not wasted.

Every day, volunteers pick up extra food from local kitchens and drive it to local partners who distribute food. Not tomorrow. Today.

Feed Tahoe is a program of The Marcella Foundation, like The Atrium. This room is its home base.

  • 120,000+ pounds of good food rescued
  • 1,100+ rescues completed
  • 55+ volunteer drivers
  • 15+ partners who receive food

  1. A kitchen has extra

  2. A neighbor drives it over

  3. Dinner, not dumpster

Rescues run through the free Feed Tahoe app.

Visit feedtahoe.org App Store Google Play Have extra food? Schedule a pickup

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