Launch The Food Fairy® Mobile Soup Kitchen!
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Founder and owner of The Food Fairy® shares her vision of creating a fleet of food fairy mobiles, much like ice cream trucks, offering FREE SOUP in surrounding low income and food insecure counties in North Carolina.
Special thanks to Tyler of www.tylerreinhold.com for filming and editing the following video. Watch on YouTube for closed captioning.
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The History:
In 1996, Terri McClemon relocated to North Carolina, founding The Food Fairy as a single mother of three. Since then, Terri has spent the past twenty-seven years building a thriving personal chef business that serves the Triangle.
Now, The Food Fairy is embarking on a new mission to tackle hunger and food insecurity in North Carolina by launching a mobile food kitchen, powered by a commissary kitchen in northern Chatham County.
Join us in supporting this impactful cause by contributing to the construction of the kitchen and the purchase of the first mobile electric or hybrid soup van!
The Vision: An Ice Cream Truck Serving Free Soup
As the illustration above by artist Lucile Moutier depicts, we envision a delightful van meandering through North Carolina country sides and neighborhoods, ringing fairy chimes, and offering free, nourishing soup to anyone in need – families, kids, and seniors alike.
Making Modern Day “Stone Soup”
The Food Fairy family, a community of farmers and food enthusiasts, is already rallying behind the cause, ready to donate soup bones and "ugly" vegetables for the Mobile Soup Pantry’s inaugural pots of soup.
Empowering Our Neighbors
Soup recipients will also reap fun infused inspiration when food fairies share their passion for cooking with recipes, easy earth friendly practices and tips on growing herbs and vegetables.
All that's missing is the kitchen (already in progress) and the first electric or hybrid van!
A wellness expert with a gift for producing deliciousness with whatever is available, Terri and her Fairies envision delivering hearty big-spoon soups and deeply nourishing homemade breads for free to neighboring counties with the highest need.
Initial North Carolina counties served:
- Scotland
- Robeson
- Bladen
- ... with plans to expand east and who knows where...
The Ask: Every Dollar Delivers Soup to a Neighbor in Need!
- $50 - Contribute $50 to fill our spice cupboard with fair-trade spices purchased from Reluctant Trading Experiment.
- $100 - A generous donation of $100 buys an industrial-sized soup pot and a giant ladle, essential tools for portioning out hearty soup for our North Carolina neighbors.
- $250 - Your $250 contribution buys one shelf of a commercial walk-in refrigerator, a crucial element of the commissary kitchen where we'll make the soup! We need 30 or more of these gifts.
- $500 - When you give $500 you'll buy the light fixtures that will hang over our prep kitchen and workspace, lighting our way so we may fill your bellies! We need at least 10 gifts in this amount.
- $1000 - Can you support us with a $1000? We need 25 gifts at this level to pay for our commercial, two-door convection oven so we can prepare lots of delicious food & bake bread quick as a wink!
- $1500 - We need 10 or more gifts of $1500 to pay for our commercial hood, necessary for the commercial kitchen where we'll prepare our hearty soups and stews for distribution in the community.
- $2000 - Gifts of $2000 are essential to pay for on-demand hot water, because you can't make soup without hot water!
- $2500 - Your gift of $2500 would be enormously valuable to us, paying for windows in our new Chatham county commissary kitchen or a portion of our efficient new metal roof.
- $3000 - A substantial donation of $3000 goes toward our first mobile soup truck -- an electric VW van or hybrid! We need at least 20 contributions at this level.
A note from Terri:
After 27 years as a solely personal chef enterprise, our vision has expanded! We are a company founded not just on wholesome, good taste but on the very essence of truth and kindness and the ultimate good of all. Now, we are reaching out to touch a larger population to meet more needs.
Come and be a part of the magic and help us write this next chapter of the Food Fairy Tale! Each one of your contributions supports the construction of the commissary kitchen or fund the purchase of our first delivery van.
This is not just a fairytale about food! It is a story about Loving Kindness, as we all have a role in nourishing each other and in our own way.
I believe that small heartfelt actions have the power to create profound change. Your contribution, whatever the size, empowers us all to build a more compassionate and well-nourished world.
Terri and The Food Fairy Family
Organizer
Terri McClernon
Organizer
Durham, NC