DJ @Nerstylist Planting Chard at Hayes Valley Farm, February 2012

Help us kick off volunteering in 2013 by joining Boobs4Food SF at Hayes Valley Farm on Sunday, January 27th, 2013 12:00pm – 1:30pm. We are making it SUPER easy for you to volunteer this month, as no RSVP is required, just show up and bring a friend or two if you’d like! Of course, we’d love to know if we can look out for your beautiful smile at the farm.

Urban Farming is F-U-N. We’ve learned quite a bit about urban farming & permaculture from our friends over at Hayes Valley Farm. Past tasks have included mulching, planting/replanting vegetation like fava beans, harvesting produce, painting & light carpentry/handiwork.

Our dedicated volunteers L-R: Justin, Liberty, Nat, Brian, Phong & Jessica brave the SF cold and help plant Fava Beans and Chard at Hayes Valley Farm.

* All Ages Are Welcome, Kids & Strollers too

* No RSVP Required – just show up

* Wear comfortable clothes & shoes, you may walk in some mud (it is a farm after all)

* Tools will be provided, bring gardening gloves if you’d like

Location: Hayes Valley Farm

Address: 450 Laguna Street (main entrance gate between Fell & Oak), SF

Date: Sunday, 1/27/2013

Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm

For the 21& up crowd, we will head on over to Biergarten (weather permitting) after our shift for some food, drink & conversation.

More information can be found at our Boobs4Food SF Jan2013 Volunteer Event Facebook Page. Feel free to post a message or just say hello!

January’s event will incorporate Brunch at Out The Door Bush St. and a short volunteer session with a Food Runners route on Sunday, 1/23/2011.

Where: Out The Door Bush. St & Fort Mason Farmers Market

Address: 2232 Bush St. (b/t Fillmore & Steiner) & Fort Mason Farmers Market  (Marina Safeway Parking Lot)

We invite you to join us for a Brunch at Out The Door from 11:30am – 1pm. This will give new & old volunteers a chance to meet before our Food Runners route. You may even choose not to eat but join us and hang out. Expec t brunch to run about $10.

At 1pm, we will head over to Fort Mason Farmers Market to collect leftover produce & goods from the vendors. Once collected, we will go on our separate routes to pre-assigned drop off points.
The Food Runners Route will be limited to 12 heads as this is the max capacity of 3 cars. We will take volunteers on a first come first serve basis. We will email you confirmation and event details once you RSVP. RSVP at our Boobs4Food Facebook Event Page.

If you opt out of the brunch portion, please meet in front of the Marina Safeway parking lot at 1:15pm. We should be able to complete vendor pick ups and drop offs by 3pm at the very latest.

Rain or shine, we shall be brunching and rescuing the farmers market donations. See you there!

About FoodRunners:
Food Runners is a volunteer organization dedicated to alleviating hunger in San Francisco. Our volunteers deliver over 10 tons of food a week to agencies feeding people in need. Food Runners picks up excess perishable and prepared food from businesses such as restaurants, caterers, bakeries, hospitals, event planners, corporate cafeterias, and hotels and delivers it directly to shelters and neighborhood programs that feed the hungry.

Our December Event, Saturday Decemeber 11th, 8:30a-12:30p, will bring us back to SF’s Project Open Hand! Given the enthusiasm shared for November’s event and limited spots available, we’re doing back-to-back visits to one of our favorites!

PLEASE NOTE – we are trying out RSVP’ing via Google Docs so please click on this link to RSVP YES/MAYBE/NO or leave a comment.

Since 1985, Project Open Hand has been providing “meals with love” to people living with serious illnesses and to seniors in San Francisco and Alameda County. Project Open Hand provides food and nourishment to improve the quality of life of the men, women and children it serves. Project Open Hand programs include: meal, grocery and nutrition information, education and referral for people with symptomatic HIV and AIDS; lunch and nutrition education for people over 60 years of age; and meal service for homebound critically ill people under the age of 60.

We hope you can join us for a few rewarding hours providing “meals with love” to the clients of this amazing program especially during the season of giving and when times are especially tough. Common duties include helping out in the kitchen, grocery center, packing food, etc.

Street parking is available along Polk, please read all signs carefully to avoid parking tickets. We recommend parking at AMC 1000 or other neighboring lots.

Spaces are limited, please sign up soon with the Google Docs link. If you end up not being able to make it, please let us know so we can allow a waiting list volunteer to attend in your place. We will contact you directly to inform you of final confirmation that you have been saved a spot.

Please stay to grub with us afterwards as we’ll pick somewhere fabulous to eat around the area. For more information, please visit www.Boobs4Food.com or DM us at www.twitter.com/Boobs4Food. Please also follow POH at @ProjectOpenHand

We look forward to fighting hunger with you!

Best,
Jessica, Kat and Liberty Boobs4Food SF

Boobs4Food SF will be volunteering at Project Open Hand in San Francisco Saturday, November 20th from 11:00am – 4:00pm. We hope you can join us for a few rewarding hours providing “meals with love” to the clients of this amazing program especially during the season of giving and when times are especially tough. Common duties include helping out in the kitchen, grocery center, packing food, etc.

Since 1985, Project Open Hand has been providing “meals with love” to people living with serious illnesses and to seniors in San Francisco and Alameda County.

Project Open Hand provides food and nourishment to improve the quality of life of the men, women and children it serves. Project Open Hand programs include: meal, grocery and nutrition information, education and referral for people with symptomatic HIV and AIDS; congregate lunch and nutrition education for people over 60 years of age; and meal service for homebound critically ill people under the age of 60.

Please wear closed toe shoes, dress comfortably and cozy as there might be light lifting. We also recommend leaving your valuables at home or in your car. A light lunch is served during our shift.

Street parking is available along Polk, please read all signs carefully to avoid parking tickets. We recommend parking at AMC 1000 and get your parking ticket validated in the movie theater lobby before returning to your car.

Spaces are limited, please sign up soon. However you RSVP with us, we will contact you directly to inform on final confirmation as tracking Facebook RSVPs can be challenging as many of you know. Please stay to grub with us afterwards as we’ll pick somewhere fabulous to eat around Larkin (i.e. Lers Ros Thai, Turtle Tower, etc.)

For more information, please visit www.Boobs4Food.com or DM us at www.twitter.com/Boobs4Food. Please also follow POH at @ProjectOpenHand

We look forward to fighting hunger with you!

We showed you our cans, you showed us your  cans – all to support SF Food Bank

Boobs4Food manning the cans with @HotFoodPorn & @LineCook

Thank you all for making our first ever Boobs4Food SF Holiday Happy Hour Food drive a success!

Our Boobs4Food SF Holiday Happy Hour Food Drive brought together old & new faces, supporting the SF Food Bank.

Friday’s Boobs4Food Happy Hour Food Drive event drew a diverse crowd from local chefs, food bloggers, Twitter “tweeps”, community outreach supporters, college students, working professionals around the Bay Area and many of our friends. Everyone came together for a worthwhile cause with their canned goods in hand and for an opportunity to network with one other to continue the Boobs4Food purpose of bringing together passion for food and passion to fight hunger in addition to various community-oriented causes. With many families and individuals seeking assistance being those who never thought they would have to ask for help such as homeowners, middle managers and working couples, we here at Boobs4Food are working to bring together our circle of friends and supporters to assist our local food bank to keep those in need fed and nourished without having to turn away anyone seeking help. Read more about Food Banks nationwide calling for support: (SFGate.com article)

Please take a moment to view our photo recap of our Boobs4Food SF Happy Hour & Food Drive event and we look forward to seeing you at our next volunteer and mixer events! (Photos from our Boobs4Food Facebook Group)

Boobs4Food Girl Power with the incredible Amy Brown leading the way!

For more information, please visit:

SF Food Bank www.sffoodbank.org

Feeding America www.feedingamerica.org

John Colins www.johncolins.com

Boobs4Food www.boobs4food.com

Follow Us on Twitter www.twitter.com/boobs4food

Afternoon Tea Break with Three Stone Hearth Staff & Volunteers

The month of October gave us the opportunity to support Three Stone Hearth, a Community Operated Kitchen based in Berkeley, CA. Three Stone Hearth offers nutrient dense foods to homes and families around the San Francisco Bay Area. Their menu offerings change each week as they prepare global culinary offerings that highlight the nourishing traditions of various regions around the world.

After a few events centered around Food Banks, we wanted to check out an organization where we could be involved in the preparation of food – a subject we are clearly passionate about. Our hostesses at Three Stone Hearth were Catherine Spanger (Worker Owner) and Jessica Prentice (Worker Owner) – two ladies very knowledgeable in food & nutrition, whom we found to be excited about our organization’s name and its purpose.

Boobs4Food SF Team Member Jessica cleaning & peeling nutrition rich red beets at Three Stone Hearth.

We brought familiar faces along with a few new faces this time around as we supported the Co-Op Kitchen with the scrubbing of potatoes and carrots, the squeezing of fresh lemon juice, the chopping of buckets of onions without tears, the pureeing of ginger paste and the preparation of pounds and pounds of vegetables for the week’s menu of Shepherd’s Pie.  All of this hard work wasn’t left unrewarded as we were blessed by an amazing communal tea service and lunch of delicate, delicious frittata with basil oil and yogurt  and a lentil soup prepared by the day’s volunteers. Lunch was topped off by homemade ice cream courtesy of our dear Boobs4Food friend Nat who had churned out flavor after flavor for us to try: mango lassi, shanghai peach, apricot pecan & caramel pear.

All and all, our afternoon at Three Stone Hearth proved eye-opening as we all learned more about the significance of the healing powers of food and how various regional cuisines and traditions have cultivated health lifestyles for centuries.

Many thanks to Nat, Thi, Gino, Lynn & Jon for your time and much appreciated hard work in the kitchen.

A glimpse of our afternoon: Three Stone Hearth &  Boobs4Food SF Photos

To learn more about our friends at Three Stone Hearth, please visit  http://www.threestonehearth.com.

-Team Boobs4Food SF

Comfort Me with Apples, Carrots & Green Tomatoes

We here at Boobs4Food can’t believe autumn is already here in full force!!

After a busy summer filled with a few fun B4F events around the U.S. to celebrate the official launch of Boobs4Food, B4F celebrated the beginning of the season of harvest with a return to the SF FOOD BANK. This time around we rallied a few new friends to join us in the incredible weather and participated in some intensive arm workouts as we sorted through 4000 lbs. of Granny Smith apples, 2900 lbs. of bright orange Carrots and 8000 lbs. of under ripe Tomatoes. We left no apple, carrot or tomato unchecked as we even executed double duty inspection in order to save everything edible and worthy of donation to the hungry. There would be no wasted produce under our watch!

Once packed and stacked, the fruits and vegetables of our labor were en route to support multiple food agencies around SF. Another month, another Saturday, another B4F event, another avenue for all of us to contribute to a bigger cause than ourselves. Thank you to all of our devoted friends who volunteered!

For a quick photo recap of our afternoon at the SF Food Bank, please click here.

Special thanks to Elgin of Orson & Citizen Cake for taking time out of his busy kitchen schedule to help fight hunger with Boobs4Food.

Stay tuned for info regarding our October Boobs4Food events in Los Angeles & San Francisco, which will be available this week.

- Team Boobs4Food SF

September 26, 2009

Boobs4Food SF spent Labor Day 2009 under overcast skies, drizzle, braving SF elements for some really good bbq, bubbly, booze & bacon brittle cupcakes.

What do you get when @CoreyNead @LineCook @HotFoodPorn & @Chicharrones join forces on a Saturday afternoon in Golden Gate Park? A super awesome delicious high-low bbq of sorts featuring fellow crazy gluttons as us and chefs who all happen to be off the line.

Thank you for the bubbly & bacon brittle cupcakes.

Oink Moo Burp!

- Team Boobs4Food

September 6, 2009

Boobs4Food keeps the hunger fighting movement alive even while on holiday in Hawaii…

Less than 72 hours before our trip to Oahu – Team Boobs4Food decided to re-contact Hawaii Food Bank to see if they were open to having us lend a helping hand. Since our greater goal here at Boobs4Food is to bring hunger awareness to a global scale – we wanted to see if we could devote some quality time during our holiday to a cause such as the Hawaii Food Bank. Annie C. at Hawaii Food Bank replied back to us quickly and gave us the okay to allow us to drop-in and help them out in their “house” given our recent Boobs4Food activities that we’ve documented. An opportunity to drop-in, which is very rare as the Hawaii Food Bank usually requires volunteers to make 6-month commitments, got us all very excited for our holiday.

We immediately felt the island aloha upon our arrival as we were given a brief tour and introductions to the team. We hit the ground running as we sorted through refrigerated perishables such as orange juice, dairy products, inspected cartons of eggs for cracks, frozen foods and finally we sorting fresh bread & baked goods for freshness and mold.

With our past experience in sorting frozen penne & green beans, and produce, our event at Hawaii Food Bank allowed us to see another angle of how food banks operate. After all the sorting and inspection is done, agencies from around the island come through and shop through the bank at a flat rate of just cents per pound of food.  This opportunity was wonderful to see how it all works halfway across the Pacific.  The Hawaii Food Bank happens to get quite a bit of fresh produce from not only local supermarket chains such as Safeway & Whole Foods but also from local farmers from around the island.

We enjoyed getting to know the other volunteers, how the food bank runs their operations and why these volunteers devote their time and efforts to a cause such as Hawaii Food Bank.  Overall, this experience was a lot of fun and even included jumping in the moldy bread bin to maximize room. We look forward to coming back to help the Hawaii Food Bank out again on our future trips to the island and to share our Aloha Spirit in the form of fighting hunger alongside with them.

Check out and support the Hawaii Food Bank!

Aloha!

- Team Boobs4Food

SEPT 5, 2009

Thank you all who came out to support Team Boobs4Food SF Saturday, August 15, 2009 and our mission to fight hunger at the SF Food Bank.

Can you believe we packed over 3000lbs. of frozen penne pasta and 1500lbs. of frozen green beans??? Pretty amazing what 30 pairs of hands can accomplish in just THREE hours.

It’s been 2 days since we spent our time together measuring frozen penne ounce for ounce with such precision, chiseling frozen green bean sculptures with vigor, shoveling penne like rockstars, wearing hairnets for the first time, working and laughing side by side with Mormons on their Mission, and in the greater picture, helping a greater cause outside of ourselves. We know Saturdays are great days to sleep in, go to IHOP for pancakes with the family, to watch USC football and to vege out. And because of this, we at Boobs4Food say thank you for spending your rare day off with us at SF Food Bank.

We are proud to have pulled together some of our closest friends, friends that we know are influential within their own circles, to help launch our first official Boobs4Food SF volunteer event. Everyone who showed up on Saturday, are all mavens in their own social circle as they are gifted with the natural ability to encourage others to love what they appreciate. We brought together friends from quite a few backgrounds that span law, professional culinary arts, internet marketing, photography, finance, HR, etc. and friends that span at least 2 decades in age which is a testament to show that our generation does care.

BIG BIG BIG BIG thanks to @linecook of NOPA & @LibertyHuang @USCJessC for getting their hands dirty by chiseling away at the super cold frozen pasta & green beans.

For a quick photo recap of our launch volunteer event at SF Food Bank, please click here.

We here at Boobs4Food cannot thank you all enough for waking up, showing up and giving back to ensure others are fortunate enough to eat a good meal once in a while like we all can.

Please click here for more information about the SF Food Bank.

See you in September!

- Team Boobs4Food

August 15, 2009