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VPR Cafe: Burlington Food Shelf Uses Food Truck To Reach Out To Community

Glenn Russell
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Burlington Free Press
Emmet Mosely, manager of the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf's Good Food Truck, takes an order at the Northgate Apartments in Burlington.

Last year, the Burlington Food Shelf received a grant to create a special food truck, which is now called The Good Food Truck. Its purpose is to bring food to people who can’t get to the Burlington Food Shelf.

Currently, the Good Food Truck serves around 200 meals a week.

“The Good Truck is designed to get good food to low-income people, people who may not have transportation [and] people who can’t get to the food shelf that’s in the Old North End of Burlington,” says Sally Pollak, a contributor to the Savorvore Section of the Burlington Free Press. “It’s nutritious, it’s local food and [has] really great menus that arrive once a week at three places in and around Burlington.”

You can learn more about the Good Food Truck in Pollak’s piece, Food Truck Serves Up Social Mission With Meals.

The VPR Café is made possible by Otter Creek Kitchenware in downtown Middlebury, offering over 70 lines of kitchenware, and by Kimball Brook Farm, organic milk and cream from Vermont grass-grazed cows.

Ric was a producer for Vermont Edition and host of the VPR Cafe.
Liam is Vermont Public’s public safety reporter, focusing on law enforcement, courts and the prison system.
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