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#46. Nourishing Humboldt: Carly Robbins and David Reed's Journey with Food for People and Community Connection
How does a small community food bank manage to make a colossal impact? This episode, we sit down with Carly Robbins and David Reed from Food for People, Humboldt County's dedicated food bank, to uncover the secrets behind their extensive efforts to combat food insecurity. From the challenges of rural food distribution to innovative programs tailored for children and seniors, Carly and David share the transformative journey of their roles in the organization, demonstrating just how adaptive and impactful their strategies have been.
Food for People isn’t just about handing out food—it’s about fostering community spirit and offering dignity. Hear Carly's and David's insights on the organization’s multifaceted approach, including the story of an unexpected half-million-dollar bequest that came at a pivotal moment. This windfall not only facilitated the reconstruction of their facility but also secured future operations, demonstrating the powerful, often unseen connections within the community. We delve into the diverse demographics that rely on food banks and the efforts made to erase the stigma around seeking help, highlighted by the welcoming experience at the Eureka Choice Pantry.
Facing high living expenses and the economic volatility of local industries, Humboldt County's residents find a vital lifeline in Food for People. Carly and David discuss the economic realities and the community’s role in supporting these efforts, emphasizing the importance of advocacy, food rescue, and summer volunteer opportunities. As we wrap up, we lighten the mood with personal anecdotes about favorite local eateries and reflect on the legacy they hope to leave, underscoring the heartwarming community spirit that defines their mission. Tune in to be inspired and learn how even small contributions can lead to monumental change.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, it's 100% Humboldt Podcast with my new best friends Carly Robbins and David Reed.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:My old best friend from Food for People, right, yeah, food for People.
Speaker 3:Nice, but we go back a ways.
Speaker 1:We do go back and we will talk about that immediately. No, please don't. So tell us about who you are. What do you do? Let's start with Carly, Sure. So Tell us about who you are. What do you do? Let's start with Carly.
Speaker 2:Sure. So my name is Carly Robbins and I'm the executive director for Food for People. I've been there about a little over nine years now. I started off as a development director before transitioning into this role this last year.
Speaker 1:Wow. So, you're the executive director. What's David's role?
Speaker 2:David.
Speaker 1:David.
Speaker 3:I took over for Carly. Yeah, no, I am in the shadow of Carly Robbins. I've been the development director for about a year at Food for People and have been involved in nonprofit fundraising in Humboldt County for a number that is larger than I feel comfortable saying out loud yeah, we don't want to make you uncomfortable, but it's definitely two digits.
Speaker 1:Two digits, okay, and you're nine years. I didn't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But executive for a year.
Speaker 2:Executive for a year. Yeah, we actually just saw. Yesterday we got the pop-up notification that we started to move into our new building one year ago yesterday, wow, and I took over as executive director July 1.
Speaker 1:Time flies when you are having fun. Yeah, july 1. Time flies when you are having fun yeah, that's true. So tell us about your director job. What does that entail day to day?
Speaker 2:I mean day to day. I guess for any executive director it could change vastly from day to day, but it's just keeping an eye on the overall operations, making sure we have everything we need to keep moving. We got a lot of different moving parts at Food for People. We've got over 18 programs. We're going all over the county every day. So it's keeping an eye on logistics, capacity, infrastructure, funding, anything and everything.
Speaker 1:So pretend I'm just like from another planet. In one minute, tell me what Food for People does for. Humboldt County.
Speaker 2:Yeah, food for People is the food bank for Humboldt County. For Humboldt County, yeah, food for People is the food bank for Humboldt County. We operate as most larger food banks in urban areas do, where we bring in food and we distribute it to a network of agency partners throughout the county. Food for People is also really unique in that we do a lot of direct distribution. So we saw gaps in service and have evolved over the years to meet those. So we do anything from pop-up distributions in the really rural areas of our county child and senior nutrition programs that specifically target those demographics when they need it most, emergency food response. We do nutrition education, cow fresh outreach, kind of anything we can do to help improve food security in Humboldt County.
Speaker 3:I think that's because you know Humboldt's. That's why there's a 100% Humboldt podcast, right, it's because Humboldt is an unusual animal in a lot of ways and in bigger places there's probably a nonprofit that does that nutrition education or the kids' nutrition programs. But Food for People's kind of stepped into the places where there are gaps, wherever there's gaps. So there's a lot of places.
Speaker 1:So say you had a food problem in Sohum, Garberville, you could come and address a regional area or a population.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we work with a couple different entities. In SOHOM, for example, we bring food directly to the food pantry there. Our partners down who run the Garberville Food Pantry Patty Rose has been there for a very long time.
Speaker 1:She's an amazing person, shout out to.
Speaker 2:Patty Shout out, Patty. We also work with the SOHOM Resource Center. We do pop-up distributions in Redway. We bring backpacks for kids' foods down.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:One of the most recent things we've been working on doing, you know, trying to get food to the areas that have traditionally been underserved. So just this last year, in partnership with the Sohum Family Resource Center, we started bringing foods out to Alder Point, which is an area we never served before Pretty remote. Very remote. We had to get a brand new vehicle that can traverse some treacherous roads.
Speaker 1:Especially the winter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're christening it, although it's already going there. Right yeah, we're christening that all-wheel drive refrigerated van in a couple of weeks, wow.
Speaker 1:That's cool, so you would go up to Klamath Trinity too and the hills up there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, farthest north we typically go on a regular basis is Oreck on the coast and Orleans on the eastern area.
Speaker 1:Yeah, willow Creek up that way. Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2:Occasionally in the past we've helped in Klamath when Last Chance Grade had that area cut off for a long time All right. Because traditionally they're served by the Del Norte Food Bank, but when they were having a hard time making it through, we would be. You know we helped out to do some food deliveries to that community.
Speaker 1:So would you drive all the way around, or on a back road, or Well, we could get to Klamath because Last Chance Grade was yeah.
Speaker 2:On the other side they couldn't. So that was where it was. It was still in their county. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me show everybody on my tricky map where we're talking about. I've seen your tricky map, very tricky. It's not tricky, it's beautiful. This is Humboldt County over there. I don't know if you can see it. We're talking about the part, the upper right, left, right quadrant, the right quadrant, the other right, left, anyway. So, yeah, usually it's right here and I can point to it and use it as a prop, but right now it's way far away from your head it's not working. It's like a yeah sorry Anyway.
Speaker 1:So for those of you that don't know your geography, that great. So David and I go way back. We have some history together. How long have we known each other?
Speaker 3:I'll answer, not long enough. Yeah, I you know. I mean, we were both in in local media for a while selling advertising.
Speaker 1:It almost sounds like we were on the air. We were the sales people that made ads on on newspapers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and, and, and ran into each other from time to time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then you were in advertising, of course. Well, handling marketing for Fortuna, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, For about 10, 10, 11 years I was the head of their business improvement district you were at the Times Standard newspaper. Yeah, this is a weird. This is a weird offshoot. We're going through David's resume which is an impressive resume.
Speaker 2:This is a weird offshoot, he's getting embarrassed.
Speaker 1:So a newspaper, is this thing that you hold? In your hand and you can read it.
Speaker 3:It's made out of wood that has been pulverized and then flattened out, and then you put black and white print on it, or unless you have a color ad like Ray's Food Place.
Speaker 1:Wait, no, really, you know the three that are left in the chain. Anyway, sorry, no offense to Ray's, love those guys. So yeah, david and I would run into each other in arcata and then later, as I became a cable tv sales guy and you were in fortuna, I would make david my lunch date at the eel river brewery. So we always hung out. This is a very strange turn both married at the same time. So it wasn't any any sort of other scott.
Speaker 3:Scott used to um be much better at his job than I was, and he would leave business cards behind. Oh no, at various places in upstate and. Mckinleyville, Don't go in there. And he would say please give this to David when he comes the next time. So this is probably payback for that.
Speaker 1:So David would show up and call on a business and walk in hey, I'm Dave Reed, with Time Standard or whoever, and oh, scott has a business card for that. So David would show up and call on a business and walk in hey, I'm Dave Reed, with time standard or whoever, and oh, scott has a business card for you. It's just here, it's really that happened really a lot.
Speaker 3:That's pretty rude. I'm now. I'm no longer that way. You know it was funny.
Speaker 1:It was great. No, it was still as funny anyway. So, your day to day, what do you? What? What do you do?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know I have. I am the person that connects people with something that they believe in. That's kind of what I've. That's what I feel like I do all the time is that, you know, I don't ask people for money. People, people want to help others in Humboldt County and we just facilitate that happening. And so we ask in a lot of different ways we mail people things, we talk on podcasts, we go on radio stations, we do events, need is in Humboldt County and how it's changed, and then asking people who care, you know to, to either give their time or give their funds or think about us in the future if they're like planning their estate or something like that. And so that's, you know, that's what I do every day and sometimes it's it's just thinking about okay, god, what should we do next?
Speaker 1:So you do estate planning. If I want to give you my jag, I don't do estate planning, but you could take donations that are big ones, yeah for sure. So name a big donation. Have you guys had property or land or anything like a big estate?
Speaker 2:No land that I am aware of in my time, but actually when we were in the process of rebuilding our facility which I mentioned we moved into a year ago today.
Speaker 1:Where is it exactly? Is it same location, same location which you rebuilt?
Speaker 2:Corner of 14th and Summer, if you know where the old DMV is right next door Right. And we got a bequest, kind of in the middle of that fundraising, wow, a donor a quiet donor who hadn't let us know, had included us in their estate and that was almost a half a million. Wow, so that was a huge. You know, we had had a pretty stagnant fundraising period.
Speaker 3:We were trying to rebuild the building, didn't know how we were going to make it happen, and that came in, you know, kind of like godsend out of nowhere and gave us the push we needed to reinvigorate and get there gave us the push we needed to reinvigorate and get there, and the amazing thing is that it was someone who really wasn't, someone who was even like supporting Food for People on a day-to-day basis or even an annual basis, right, I mean it was just something that was very close to their heart. It was close to their heart.
Speaker 2:They lived close to us or, you know, close to our location, so they saw Food for People regularly and, yeah, they included us in their estate and I mean, I credit them a lot with me not having a mental breakdown, but also just the future of Food for People and us being able to get to where we are today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'm curious about like the granular story of families that come in without names. I realize there's HIPAA law and all and I'm not asking for that, but kind of the profile of who you would tell me about that generally comes in a demographic overview of here's who we see generally or maybe not generally. And also the donor thing I want to go back to, that too too, is cash. Cash is king, probably for all of us, because it's flexible.
Speaker 2:It's flexible, it fills in the gap. We, you know, and nonprofits, have many gaps because you're puzzling together funding, but also when we are purchasing food, we can purchase a lot in bulk and we do a lot of bulk purchasing, so that dollar really goes a lot farther.
Speaker 1:So if you have a good kitty of money, you can make those and then store it yeah keep hitting my mic today, what?
Speaker 3:is um, you should work on that yeah, thank you, for I I was, um, I don't get downstairs into the actual work of the food bank every day, but I got to help out in the on the front desk a couple of weeks back and the thing that always strikes me is, even today, even like me working at food for people for a year and knowing Carly for like 15 years, 15 years, 10 years, something like that knowing, and for before that, I still have this set notion of what I think someone who comes into the Eureka Choice Pantry is or comes to a produce distribution is, and it is everybody that you could imagine.
Speaker 3:I talked to a mom who had just had, like you know, she had her six week, no, no, yeah, six week old daughter with her and her toddler with her, and it was her first time ever coming to the food bank. Wow, um, there was a couple of people who looked exactly like my grandpa, who, like you know, working dudes who just you know they needed help at the end of the month. Yeah, um, and uh, a mom who you know looked like you know, every ranch mom I ever knew in Fortuna. Um, it's, you know, it is everybody, every person you could imagine could, could be someone who needs help from from food for people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would echo that. It's you know you can't really pinpoint it down to one generalization because, it's you know, every story is different.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:We got people who are living on low fixed incomes, seniors who are coming in every month because they just can't get by on, you know, $900 a month plus rent utilities all that, who can yeah? Who can. But then there's also people who come in who had a sudden medical emergency and you know everyone in the house is working, but those costs went way above and now they can't make mortgage, they can't make car payment and all of that.
Speaker 2:And they're at risk of defaulting on something, and food is the thing in the budget that has wiggle room, but you still have to make sure that your family's fed. So we'll get people who it's just a one-time thing because they don't know how to get through that month.
Speaker 1:So there's probably folks like that that are reticent or reluctant or feel weird about receiving. Some of us do. Some of us are glad receivers. I would love you to buy me lunch, by the way Actually, it's probably my. I think it's my turn to buy you lunch. So those folks, if we were to talk to them, to go hey, this isn't for six-digit income people to roll in and fill up boxes, but it's for people that are in need, kind of maybe, regardless of what I don't know there must be. Do you see where I'm going with that? Some people would be recalcitrant. Yeah, good word.
Speaker 3:I, aaron, who runs the choice pantry in Eureka, is like the most eloquent person about, you know, people getting rid of the shame of asking for help.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, asking for help. Yeah, yeah, um she. She just says you know, we are open for you. The name of this place is food for people. You are people and you can't choose not to eat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was the question I was asking food, food receiving shame and so there's. So she, she takes that out of the equation or tries to.
Speaker 3:She tries to within the, within the walls of of the building. I think that's as far as that power, yeah it goes.
Speaker 1:I want to say hi to my wife, joni, joni. So here comes the joni comment. So I would gladly go in, joni, because I married. The opposite, which often you do, um, would go. No, no, that's for the like, the super, super, super needy, more needful people, and that's what I'm hearing you say is hey, there's probably enough. It's a universe of abundance and we can probably take care of most people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, if you have to make a tough decision on, you know something super important in your life and food, and you have to prioritize that other bill, don't skip a meal, Don't you know food?
Speaker 2:for people is there to help where. If you need the help, we're there and we we have a lot of ways we try and make it a little less intimidating. You know, really meeting people where they're at the Eureka Choice Pantry, which David was talking about earlier, is modeled to look like a smaller version, but a version of a grocery store. So if you're coming in it's not kind of what you might picture from many decades ago, like the pre-made box with the government cheese that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:When you're coming in, we're sitting down, we're having a conversation wanting to know. You know first family size. We know how much food we can give you, but are there any other services we can connect?
Speaker 1:to.
Speaker 2:Something, so hopefully you don't need food for people in the future and then you get to shop through based on a nutritional point system and take the foods that you want will use will fit your dietary needs. Will use will fit your dietary needs If you have culturally significant foods that you know your family prioritizes. Hopefully we can meet those.
Speaker 1:Gluten-free options.
Speaker 2:Gluten-free. Aaron is great about having a little corner with you know the gluten-free soy or dairy-free options, so hopefully you're walking away with something that will be of use.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm going to come by next time we do lunch, by the way you should come for a tour.
Speaker 3:Yeah, why wouldn't I? I actually that's like not my favorite favorite thing at my job, but one of the things that gives me a lot of joy is showing kids and people who donate their time and their money and you know, just community groups touring them through the building, because it's still really new for us and it's still really new for most people. I mean, most people even wait, we were at a, we were at a rotary meeting and I thought everybody was going to raise their hand that they had been in the building and they and they hadn't. Um, it's, it's really great to like, see, like what Proud of your new digs, well, but also what like the community does and like the community built this, yeah, yeah, and that's that's really empowering for people to see is like you know, 300% more cold storage Right Is a big deal when we have, like an earthquake or a tsunami or something. And it's not just people who are on the edge financially that need the help of Food for People, but it's everybody who needs Food for.
Speaker 1:People, red Cross type stuff. Yeah, yeah Good. So you take kids on tours like kids like me.
Speaker 3:Kids like you but like, yeah, I had like this cool homeschool group and they were great and we put them on the food scale and weighed the whole class.
Speaker 1:So, as a family of nine being homeschoolers cool and homeschooled don't usually go together. There's an oxymoron here that hun, that's a good one. Our kids are all homeschool adults now and they just feel like they were freaks and weird and now weird is cool. So maybe they were cool and they just didn't know it. They just didn't Love you kids.
Speaker 2:Those cycles come around. Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1:They do. Yeah, it's funny. So money's important for donors and I want to go to the other extreme real quick and ask the opposite. You know we all want to help that family that's got a bad situation in a down and out. What about the abusive family, the ones that come back again and again? There's there's no betterment, there's no, is it? I don't, I don't mean to say let me, let me rephrase. I think my question is what about those who it's just become part of their budget? And that is, do you exist for that and for that demographic as well?
Speaker 3:And maybe David will reframe my question. I will simplify and say people need food, okay, and that's what we're here for. Okay, there's not a judgment involved.
Speaker 1:Okay, so if I'm whatever, if I need food, you're there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I'd say it's hard for most people to walk in the door. So people coming just I don't want to say for the fun of it, but because they don't need it doesn't often happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, yeah, and I I think there's that perception hey, if, if you don't work, you shouldn't eat, type of thing. That's out there. It's still old school, you know. I'm not saying I espouse that, but I'm saying that that's, that's there and you go. Okay, that's surprising. Yeah, and Humboldt County has, you know, a really high level of poverty and welfare and people come here for a reason. I just wonder if there's, I don't know, a filter for that. And you're saying, hey, we feed people.
Speaker 2:We feed people. I mean everything we are when you come in. We have income guidelines, so you, should, you know, fit within those income guidelines for the most part there are guidelines, yeah, there are guidelines and we make exceptions. Like I mentioned, there might be a family who's just outside of those guidelines and for some reason had an emergency.
Speaker 2:So, if that specific situation comes up, we'll you know they won't be getting the USDA foods, for example, that we have, but we'll find some way to send them away with something. But for the most part it is income guidelines set by, you know, the federal government for the USDA guidelines and we follow that for the most part.
Speaker 1:Love it and I'm. I'm a recipient of that. As a kid my mom raised me in San Diego. You might know this, you don't. We were super poor, like she made a hundred bucks a week under the table and we we lived on nothing. And she raised me hippie, feral child. And look what happened to me. I have a little less hair than David, but not much, anyway, the. The story is that we would go to the Hebrew school where the distribution center was for the government cheese, the crappy peanut butter and whatever meat product that is. I mean, I don't know, I I get you'll, you could survive on it, but it's whatever the canned meat was was frightened. I think it was pork chicken anyway, so very familiar with that. And is that still? Is there still usda foods that come through the distribution chains?
Speaker 2:there are um it's. You know what you'll see walking through the doors these days for USDA foods is very different. Kind of how it works is food banks get almost like a point system, like we have certain amount of like quote dollars not really dollars that we can use to shop through based on the menu they have available. So we pick out, with you know some limits, what food it is that we're getting. So, if you know, no one is taking pinto beans and they're offering pinto beans, we're not going to order that.
Speaker 1:Gotcha. You know, if we have a government, cheese is popular and humble, then you can.
Speaker 2:I don't think the government cheese exists in quite the same way that it did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, am I that old?
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know. I mean I'm kind of I didn't know that we had this in common, but you know. But my parents split up when I was about, you know, like 9, 10, 11.
Speaker 1:You too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you know, in Humboldt County there was no, like there was no food for people before 1979. It's that year that new 45 years.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 45 years this year. Sorry, yeah, I'm dating myself now, but you know so there was just like you know, you would go and get like bread, or you would go and you know mom would go and get like some dairy products, and that was it Right For families in Humboldt County at the time. Yeah, so you justced it together, which is a lot of work If you're already working a job and raising two kids and then you're having to figure out, okay, how am I going to get food, Rice and beans?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, or there was no ramen. Probably even then, that's how old I am. But yeah, there was no. What Ramen?
Speaker 1:Oh ramen.
Speaker 3:Packaged ramen 23 cents.
Speaker 1:That is kind of newer. Yeah Well, not that new Anyway. So I have a story that Jamie, my office manager, said that I should repeat. So here it comes. Big fan, she was a student at CR, had 60 bucks for two weeks. She was out of money. She came to y'all in who knows 90s and you guys took care of her. She said make sure that they understand that they helped me and she was really grateful. She goes. Now that's an agency I would support as a nonprofit locally, gladly that was great to hear, so you should hit her up, I'll go, we'll bring her to lunch, so let's talk about the county real quick.
Speaker 1:So what do you see? I guess, maybe short of connecting to your agency, but what do you see as our challenges and our opportunities as an executive director of a nonprofit?
Speaker 2:you know a service-centered nonprofit, I'd say we have a really high cost of living and wages are not necessarily keeping up. Just in the last year we have seen at least a 30% increase in the amount of people coming to food for people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because inflationary spiral and that. So you have numbers to say that things are the need's going up.
Speaker 2:The need's going up. You know we had about six months where we hit a new record every single month and you know our staff would come to staff meeting every month and be like I don't know how we're going to do more than this and the stories that we're hearing you know it's diverse people but it's a lot of similar things. It costs a lot. Rent is high, gas is high. Everyone's seeing how much it costs at the grocery store.
Speaker 2:It's really hard to make it through and you know we have low unemployment rates going right now but that doesn't mean that all of the jobs out there are paying livable wages. So many of the people that we see are working but are either underemployed, only part-time work, or you or the work that they're doing they're just not getting compensated enough to live. If you're a single parent these days trying to keep even a two-bedroom apartment house on minimum wage, it's nearly impossible in Humboldt County.
Speaker 1:Well, rents are crazy. Thank you all the people that make $6 a gallon gas for us. Appreciate you doing contributing hey it's 537 right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, Count your lucky stars.
Speaker 1:It's 447 in, like Hawaii, which is crazy. We were in Maui a couple of months ago and I'm going. It's a buck cheaper here. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3:So there's that Used to be Kona and Eureka had the same gas price.
Speaker 1:Right In downtown San Francisco maybe. So, we're crazy on that. But yeah, I have a 19 and 22-year-old at home. Guess where they're going anytime soon? Nowhere, because rent is thank you rent people and gas people, and I don't know to blame Biden wouldn't be fair to sit here on the air and go. Thanks, joe, but thank you Congress. I don't know, we'll blame somebody.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sure, there are many a factor contributing Absolutely.
Speaker 1:So let's cycle back. So you're 30% up, you must have 30% more need this might be the PSA moment help how could we help as Humboldt? Or when this gets, when Nick gets the podcast up and we're in Great Britain, how do people? How do people help Food for People?
Speaker 3:Well, I think first of all I got to say that I am astounded at how supportive this community has been for Food for People for so many years. Because I come from you know a couple, three different nonprofits that I've worked for and helped raise you know a lot of funds for, but people are so generous to give. You know and give to food for people until it hurts. Um, and built a you know a new facility $6.2 million you know debt free and a lot of that came from this very community.
Speaker 1:I'm just hearing that right now for the first time, so wow, that's impressive.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, and a lot of that money came from here. Yeah, of course. I mean people can go online right now and foodforpeopleorg hit the give button and you know, obviously Are you guys on. Facebookpeopleorg. Hit the give button and you know. Obviously Are you guys on Facebook?
Speaker 1:Yes, and Instagram Instagram TikTok.
Speaker 3:No TikTok.
Speaker 1:And no Twitter.
Speaker 3:No, no Twitter yet. No Twitter, no TikTok, but MySpace. Youtube, though, which is really.
Speaker 1:YouTube is perfect.
Speaker 3:Our YouTube channel is really neat and I wish more people were on it, because it's not just, you know, fundraising videos, it's people, it's nutrition and menus and stuff like that. But, yeah, no, to make the big pitch, please you know foodforpeopleorg and click the donate button or become a full plate partner, which is what we call people who give every single month, what we call people who give every single month, which is a great way to be a really big hero for food for people without it affecting your individual day-to-day life that much Cause it's 10, 15, 20 bucks a month, instead of laying down a big check.
Speaker 1:Did you do Venmo and PayPal and all?
Speaker 3:that Venmo and PayPal and and cash and cash and vegetables and people dropping off cans, it all helps. So the zucchini, zucchini.
Speaker 2:The zucchini joke. We'll take the zucchini.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's lots of zucchini.
Speaker 3:It's coming on in my garden right now I've got two big plants and I've got one more going in, so I am going to donate my extra zucchini.
Speaker 1:So many zucchini jokes coming your way right now, but well, in the fall yeah um, I love that. So, uh, can you talk about like. So there are stores that give you their whatever day of day old um, do you get to talk about them openly or are they anonymous? Oh, no, no. So wild berries enf, yeah, co op.
Speaker 2:Co-op Safeway Costco, we have a driver who will go around on kind of like a weekly schedule to all of our regular stores and picks up the food that would otherwise go to waste. I think last year it was just over 300,000 pounds of food that we rescued from local stores and were able to put into the hands of people who could use it.
Speaker 1:Is it dangerous or wrong for me to eat dated food? I'm always eating dated stuff at work. My staff's getting mad at me. No, it's dead two days ago, I know.
Speaker 3:It's a can of tuna man. I have gotten a total education working at Food for People. There are so many experts at Food for People who say sell say sell by dates are a marketing technique. They are not. Oh, they are not a way. They are not telling you to throw away that food. Did you know that? But there are guidelines. Right, there are guidelines.
Speaker 2:There are guidelines and, yes, sell by dates, Best by dates can all be really confusing. Ok, you know, for canned foods we will follow again USDA guidelines, which is usually this year. Four years in the past is the cutoff of when you should no longer, or if a can is rusty, bulging, anything like that.
Speaker 1:Right right.
Speaker 2:Obviously fresher foods have their own guidelines and it kind of depends on the food. But you know, within reason, you know use best judgment.
Speaker 3:Is it really four years? Yeah?
Speaker 1:Wow so you have some discretion as to what you might distribute.
Speaker 2:A little bit. Yeah, you know we're obviously not going to try and distribute anything that we ourselves don't deem safe. Sure, and we have volunteers who will say you know, not everything we get from the local stores is usable. You know, we might get bins of strawberries where some are bad some are not, so we have volunteers who go through sort that?
Speaker 1:Who gets that donation?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you get that food after it's been cleaned.
Speaker 1:Probably farmers that get that for other purposes maybe. I mean yeah.
Speaker 2:You know the stuff we can't use. We have hog farmers who will come pick up.
Speaker 1:I remember Williams Brad used to. The hog man would come in and get 1,700 loaves of bread of all kinds. And where do you go? That looks like good bread. Well, I got a hog farm up in Hay Fork. Yeah, all right, all right, chief, get up there bud.
Speaker 3:Have fun. I see her, the farmer who comes by once twice a week. Yeah, perfect hey recycle, reuse man.
Speaker 3:Yeah. But yeah, I didn't realize also until working for Food for People, that you know stores aren't necessarily putting stuff out for us when it's expired. It's kind of more like they know it's like, ok, this is. We're going to pull this now because it's you know, we're not going to sell it. We know that they have their own reasons and we, you know, we can get it out to people who are the choice pantry. Where else does that food go?
Speaker 2:I mean, it kind of depends. We have a network of partners we work with. You know we once tallied and we were at almost 100 partners in Hubbell County that we work for or work with, not for, but you know we partner with to make our work possible. And some of those are, you know, congregate meal sites. St Vincent de Paul comes in. They pick up their own food. We give them food directly, you know, so local store donations might go to them.
Speaker 1:So there's individuals that will cook for the homeless. Will they come and get food from y'all?
Speaker 2:We work with a whole bunch of nonprofits.
Speaker 1:As long as you serve low-income individuals and kind of meet the requirements on making sure you're meeting the civil rights, yeah, so, gosh, the politics of food have got to be fascinating, and I don't want to get there or even try to, but it seems like we manufacture a lot of overage and a lot of surplus, I mean, even in our little county. It has to go somewhere. Well, it could go, I guess, to the landfill, which is travesty.
Speaker 2:It is a travesty and actually California recently passed some legislation trying to cut down on that. But I would say in Humboldt County we're a lot better than, say, other places in the state. Food for People has great working relationships with a lot of the farmers, so we have a whole gleaning program that will go out to farms, get, you know, the extra produce that's not going to make it to market or maybe it's a little not as aesthetically pleasing. That kind of stuff that they know won't sell will harvest bring back. We have backyard gardeners. You mentioned zucchini. Zucchini and apples have their very own season in Humboldt County.
Speaker 1:Well, they have their very own bin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bins, plural.
Speaker 3:Bins, that's funny. So many apples that we worked with Humboldt Cider Company last year to we couldn't get through all the apples.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because you just got donated tons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had a really odd growing season last year because of the rain. So really odd growing season last year because of the rain. So the apple crop was just immense and getting so many apple donations and you can only give out so many before they start to turn and the ones that were about to are turning. We worked with Humboldt Cider and they pressed into its very own cider. It's cider for people. I think it's still out there. You can buy it and one dollar of every sale goes to food for people.
Speaker 1:That's really cool. I like that.
Speaker 2:That's a good association that makes sense.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, even with refrigeration. There's like only so long you can hold on to an apple.
Speaker 1:Right, well, and then the cider turns into apple. What do they call that? The hooch, the apple cider. What is it? Alcoholic? Why am I looking at you? I alcoholic? Why am I looking at you? I thought he was an expert. Why are you looking guilty? That's Nick, he's over there, don't look. Whatever they call it, well, it's hard cider.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, it's hard cider, yeah for sure you give away hard cider.
Speaker 1:Wait, no, I totally know you don't do that. So what's in the future? What do you see in the near future? More need and more.
Speaker 2:I think, strategically, we're looking at, you know, the I don't want to harp on the pandemic because it's mostly over, but the feds and the state did a lot of, you know, kind of extra funding, support for food banks in the last several years because so many people were experiencing hardship because of the pandemic and a lot of those are going away and at the same time, as we mentioned, we're seeing a huge uptick in need. Right now we're pretty good, but we're looking ahead to what food banks in all of California are deeming the hunger cliff that we all anticipate. You know, less resources, more need.
Speaker 1:It has a name. That's a thing.
Speaker 2:The hunger cliff, at least amongst food bankers which I get as a very specific group of.
Speaker 1:So it's, there's a coming.
Speaker 2:There's a coming worry, I guess we'll say there's no hard facts yet, but with state budget, where it is all of that, it's a concern. So trying to keep up with that and do it equitably. We've been making a really concerted effort, as I alluded to earlier, of looking at where there are food deserts and seeing how we can better serve those communities. So in the last few years we've expanded, we're doing new distributions with partners in Alder Point, petrolia and Honeydew, myers Flat and more to come. I wish I had a pointer.
Speaker 3:I know you need a longer stick.
Speaker 1:I want to get my geography thing going.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then, and it's, there's so many little pockets, remote areas In Humboldt County. Yeah, and those are the places that need sometimes the most support. Yeah, but it's difficult to get there, but they have good growing places.
Speaker 1:Right Sure.
Speaker 3:But you know, our growing season's only a few, you know.
Speaker 1:Speaking of growing and the food and marijuana industry, that's got to affect that bigger inflation picture you're talking about. And the need, Because that's, I'm told, heart-wrenching and so-hum. There's just, the market fell out of the bottom of the market and it's just awful. So I not to bring up the politics of marijuana, although I have lots of opinions. The point is there are people with need and families, little kids with need.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who you know have not experienced that? A lot in their life. It's been a pretty dramatic change in the last few years. Yeah, and that's definitely an impact. Unfortunately, humboldt County has a history of boom and bust industries.
Speaker 1:Yes, we do.
Speaker 2:So I am excited. You know you asked earlier what can Humboldt County do. I'm excited for some of the potentials. You know industry expansion. That might bring some more jobs and stability.
Speaker 1:What do you see?
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm not an expert, but there's the fish farm that will hopefully be coming to fruition soon, wind farm All of that's really far down the line but I think hopefully will be an investment in a little stability in Humboldt County and the trail system, the Great Redwood Trail.
Speaker 1:As I drive home tonight I keep thinking I'm going to shoot a photo while I'm driving. Nah, the insurance guy that's taking photos while he's driving. That doesn't work. It's a good look, thank you. Thank you for affirming that. So my wife's a trail person and a walker, runner, hiker, and the trails coming in from Arcata to Eureka as we speak, they're grinding. I can see it from here. They're actually. It's going to be happening before the end of the summer.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:Which is really cool because that'll give you basically, the power plant to Little River Beach and Clam Beach. Yeah, whoa, on a bike, that's true, or you want to walk it, you can do whatever, and so, yeah, I think that's going to be, and then the trail system coming in from where will it start?
Speaker 3:Like will it I don't know Bay Area Probably like the rail corridor right it is that it's the Eel River, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but maybe not in our lifetime, although may you live to see it. Thank you, yeah, thank you. May you see that. May we all see that. So, issues that are the, the coming economy, the election, the, the cliff, um, and, and the way we can help is, besides money what and produce what, what are other ways?
Speaker 3:I mean you take, there's a whole there there's a whole side of food for people. That is about outreach and advocacy and you know reasonable people can disagree about like what, what the solutions are to problems of hunger, but they are real and they are here in Humboldt and obviously they've been here. I mean, food for People has been around for 79 years 79, 45 years since 1979.
Speaker 3:But you know, we do have an advocacy person, you know, and program that gives people facts and says you know, here's the things that could help. Yeah, and you, you know, look at those things, be a reasonable adult and figure out what you can support and then go out and act on those things. You know, like school lunch, school lunch during the summer is a big one and I think it's has it passed in California.
Speaker 2:The last version I saw, it was included, which is very exciting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean. Right now our kids' summer food program serves 225 kids, Whoa In Humboldt County. That's not a lot of kids.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a lot of kids are in summer school thousands yeah, and my kids are in summer school thousands and that's mostly in communities that are that don't have the ability to have a summer, a summer lunch program, and are mostly very rural and remote or at least are just in communities that are cut off in one way or another. Yeah, and as close as Manila, but as far away as you know, willow Creek and Hoopa.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I liked what you said, the notion of reasonable people. It might be an oxymoron, but I don't think so, not forever, because we're so. One of the themes of the podcast is it's called Cal Poly. That's one theme. The other is hey, we're pretty divided. It's called Cal Poly, get it right, it's still HSU. I know, for me it's HSU and you too. But this division, and but for reasonable people, I like that because we could come together as reasonable people. And a reasonable person, I might assert, would say we're in America, man, there's plenty of food Right. Let's feed hungry people, especially hungry kids.
Speaker 3:I mean, who's going to argue that? It's like if there's hunger in White Thorn in one family that can't, for whatever reason, figure it out, and you got a warehouse full of food. What's wrong with this? Why wouldn't we not get that person fed? So I get that, actually, that's. Another thing that people can do is that they can find the issues they can agree upon and then advocate for them with legislators.
Speaker 1:Find a food desert in McKinleyville and report it and make a recommendation for y'all to meet a need or get them information. I mean there must be not a whole desert, but maybe a family or maybe a tribe of folks that live in cabins up in West Haven, whatever, maybe tribe is not the word I'm looking for, but a group of a little community that's kind of hard for food. Is there a referral program where you could do?
Speaker 2:There's no formal referral program but really you know, finding out about those areas and hearing from it and ideally if we have a direct connection there.
Speaker 1:And they can call you and hearing from it and ideally if we have a direct connection there and they can call you and figure it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can figure out if there's a way to partner and get food there. The more we know about, the better we'll be able to plan.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the good thing is that you know Food for People isn't doing this alone, that there's a network of food pantries that you know aren't under the Food for People umbrella necessarily. They're partners and we support them, right, but you know they're the eyes and ears too. I got to like help out at the Trinidad Pantry and it's once a month and it is super grassroots. It is in the community hall yeah, it is mostly retired people handing out, it's Lions Club it's.
Speaker 3:Lions Club Right, the Lions do it okay. Yeah, it's a cool and it's great it is very, you know, and people come in from the community who are helping out and they say, oh, I heard about this and I saw so and so, and this guy doesn't live there anymore, you know. So that's, that's some of. That is how those referrals happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it might be with seniors. I'm thinking of senior citizens too that are just whatever, for whatever reason can't eat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have a whole program that focuses on seniors, so they either have days in you know their unique communities where they can come pick up from us, or, if they can't make it out of the house for whatever reason, we have a network of really dedicated volunteers who will come pick food up from us and deliver it to the seniors on their route.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's cool. So I love that about you guys already, the fact that you're all networked in and dialed in and all those drivers are volunteers, which is so amazing. Are they through you or the Senior Center?
Speaker 2:They're through us. You know we partner with the Senior Center and they have also many of our volunteers overlap.
Speaker 1:And they're a great. They're a great group.
Speaker 2:They are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, really good. So let's, let's stop the show and do the quiz. Are you ready?
Speaker 2:Oh, all right.
Speaker 1:Funny because it's often related to food. David's going no, not me, I'm not ready. We'll start with Carly in that case. All right, We'll rotate this. Carly, your favorite coffee in town. Where do you go for coffee? If you could go anywhere and order anything, where would you go? What?
Speaker 2:would you order? I'm typically more of a tea person if. I'm honest. But if I do want a coffee, jitterbean is close to us, so I often go to Jitterbean.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're right there. They're right down the street. They have their warehouse over there.
Speaker 2:They do. They roast like two doors down from us. We get to smell it.
Speaker 1:Rick Roberts what's up? Yeah, so probably Jitterbean. Okay, Jitterbean.
Speaker 3:I love all our local coffee places. Okay, david's had a long time to think about this and this is not where I do go, but it is where I would get my best cup of coffee in Humboldt County, and that is Cafe Mocha. Oh yeah, and it's like, yeah, I can't get there because it is like, you know, I love it, but it's not where I work or where I live.
Speaker 1:But man, that is, and finish and take a hot tub while you're there, right? So the first place in all of humboldt to have espresso coffee like the real deal, like a mocha and a latte and cappuccino, was cafe mocha and arcata no way yeah, oh yeah, no, and that like mid 80s, early 80s even, and they it's a little finish like uh, what would you call the house?
Speaker 3:A house, a house. I would call it a house, it's kind of a.
Speaker 1:It's a Finnish house.
Speaker 3:It's that, that, that that Tudor English looking Correct Kind of thing where it's plaster and and and board Scandinavian, if you will.
Speaker 1:Scandinavian possibly, yeah, possibly. Anyway, the hot tubs around and, and, but the killer coffee Really, really good coffee. I got to take Joni for that. That'd be good. Okay, my favorite coffee. I'm glad you asked Dick Taylor.
Speaker 3:Oh wait, here they are. Oh, actually, you know what they have? Killer coffee they really do. Followed by Brio. Brio Bakery has that blue dolphin something. It's all five bucks a cup. Is Dick Taylor sponsoring this podcast? Not at all Okay. I just wanted to say His bag's right there.
Speaker 1:Oh, that little bag Weird. So that's great coffee. Okay, next question, round two you ready? We'll start with David for five points and the championship Best hamburger. Where do you go for a burger? Besides my house Can't go to your house.
Speaker 3:I do love stars stars okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they've won best of humboldt a number of times. Yeah, would it be okay if everybody voted for y'all for best of best of humboldt, for?
Speaker 2:we would love that we would love that we're in three categories.
Speaker 3:What are the categories?
Speaker 1:it's a shout out for best of humboldt. Let's see. Through juneth you could vote once a day. Go to North Coast Journal and Best of Humboldt.
Speaker 2:Under services it says volunteer organization, which is, we're humbled to say. We have about 250 volunteers every single month throughout the program, so they make food for people function.
Speaker 1:But also under bonus there's local cause, I believe yeah and maybe local non-profit yeah, yeah, yeah, so three, yeah, that's pretty good okay cool, so we can vote for you.
Speaker 3:Anybody else have have a place in that that can't really think of any okay hand maybe.
Speaker 1:Maybe dick taylor. Probably.
Speaker 3:They do no insurance, so does jitterbean by the way, and I Any of hand.
Speaker 1:Maybe Dick Taylor? Probably. They do no insurance. So does Jitterbean, by the way, and I think Star may or may not. What's your favorite burger?
Speaker 2:Well, I was going to go with Star's because they're a classic and I love a mustard forward hamburger.
Speaker 1:What does that?
Speaker 2:mean, I love mustard.
Speaker 3:Oh, you just put extra mustard on it. No, their hamburger is mustard forward. I will give you that.
Speaker 2:I don't think they even put ketchup on it. I mean you can yourself, but I think no, that's the thing. Yeah, I believe so. Someone might have to correct me on that.
Speaker 3:Until you said it, I didn't really think about it. It's delicious, I love it.
Speaker 2:Is it on the menu? Like that? They're standard, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'll try that. That sounds good, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'll go stars, but there's a new food truck that I am failing to remember the name of. I think it's like Humble Burger or something like that, but it was quite good the last time I had that at the Friday Night Market, nice, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And did you want to ask me my best?
Speaker 3:burger yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, please. What is your best burger? It's got well, it's in and out burger, just there you go. Okay, say no more, they said. My daughter just told me this. They're here from Medford. The cheapest fast food in all of Medford, which is pretty big, is in and out burger. Mcdonald's is like six bucks for a, what's that?
Speaker 2:The little breakfast. Thing.
Speaker 1:McSend.
Speaker 2:Muffin McMuffin.
Speaker 1:Thank you On the muffin. Wow, it's weird, getting old you kind of hard to make those connections.
Speaker 3:What was your name?
Speaker 1:again, yeah. So lastly round three. We'll start with Carly. This is the tiebreaker Favorite pizza.
Speaker 2:Ooh Ooh Live from New York. Oh boy Ooh. Live from New York is my favorite. I like it A thin crust.
Speaker 1:Guess, whose 19-year-old son works there.
Speaker 2:Oh, does that mean you get all the free?
Speaker 3:Well, we can't talk about that on the air. That is really good pizza and they also have doughs. You can pick up doughs if you make pizza at home. Paul's did a great job. This is showing my age and ancient Humboldt County cred, but I will never be the same now that there's no Angelo's pizza?
Speaker 1:That is, yeah, I saw that. We just walked by today. The guy that reopened it shut it already.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I had yeah yeah, he.
Speaker 1:I think he reopened a bunch of restaurants really kind of quick. What's your favorite pizza? Davey, that's what I said, yeah.
Speaker 3:Pizza that you can buy, pizza that I can buy now, unless you have some frozen Angelus. I don't think there's any rules about us not picking the same one and I'm going to say live from New York, live from New York.
Speaker 2:Before I ask yours, I will give a shout out. If you love a take and bake pizza, babes will do take and bake and they are a deal and they're delicious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everybody loves babes.
Speaker 3:It's just, it's on that side of town where I do it. That's where most of my pizza comes from, but yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:So do you have to say life in New York because your son works there?
Speaker 1:I do. Yeah, I do, paul, it's amazing, it's magical pizza.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:It's. So I am almost 65 and trying to be healthy, so it is a little bit of a cheat food for me. I can't eat a lot of it. That's a shock. Yeah, that I'm 65? Yeah, oh, thank you, I have nice skin. Let's make it weird. So parting shots. So when you go away and you get your wings, what do you want to be remembered for at your eulogy or your, your legacy session, or your celebration life, or say your tombstone? And I'll start with you, carly, while I'm looking at David and making it extra awkward or weird who are you and what do you want and what's your legacy going to be in your tombstone? I mean?
Speaker 2:for me. I think you should always meet people with kindness, so be kind.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'll go with this. I was at the women's protest many years ago you remember that and my sign was be kind, be fair and be aware. So something like that I like that that's a good legacy.
Speaker 1:I like that. That's a good legacy. I like that. That's a tombstone thing. Yeah, all right, david, who are you and what do you want? I'll fill in the dead air and say that he's had all show to think about this, because I gave it to me early and I'm still failing.
Speaker 3:I don't know who I am yet, but I'm still figuring it out right on. Yeah, who is it? But my I hope my legacy is he was a good dad oh good, one love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how many children?
Speaker 3:two, that's right, you guys have two I have a uh, I have a newly minted middle schooler.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:As of today so graduate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so does my office mate. Her boy just graduated today.
Speaker 2:And I can say he's a great dad. We'll be at work, there'll be a game on and he will be watching it on his phone, and I don't know how you do that.
Speaker 3:That's really sweet.
Speaker 1:I'm not doing it at work, though I'm doing it during a conference. It's on my break.
Speaker 3:Yes, it was lunch, you know. We were at dinner and I'm sitting there watching the softball game.
Speaker 2:It's on my phone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it's a good gig. You should you know. Yeah, try it. Try it sometime yeah.
Speaker 1:And the most noble and the most awesome and the most daunting. And try having adult kids that have drama. It's a whole nother ball of wax. But hey, um, don't worry, it'll happen to you too. Good Thanks, I'm there for you. Um, what else? Any parting shots? Uh, how do we get ahold of you? And how do we donate and give our time or money, our, our kid, our caboodle?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, the easiest way is foodforpeopleorg. You can find all the information there. You can give really easily online If you want to give a financial donation, help us with that purchasing power. It is summertime, so even our most amazing regular volunteers are taking their vacations. So we are looking for volunteer help Timely okay. Yeah, if you have time, or if you have a student at home not doing anything and think they would benefit. We could use a couple extra hands this time of year.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:We do an orientation every Monday at 3.30, I believe I'm getting my times right, but it's all on there. You can put in an application. It's all on there. You can put in an application and then if you say, like David, are going to have an abundance of zucchini or anything like that, or just food that you aren't going to use and want to put in the hands of someone who will use it, we will accept it.
Speaker 1:Apples okay.
Speaker 2:Apples. We love the apples. That was a unique year.
Speaker 3:That's a lot of cider. Yeah, no offense to the apples, oh no. No offense to the apps, oh no. I would say that if you know, if you're thinking about, you know I'm not, I'm not a big shot, I can't make a difference. I would say you can certainly make a difference if you know. If five bucks a year is is what you can do, that's great. If $5 a month is something you can do, that's great. If five dollars a month is something you can do, that's great. Um, and if you can give your time and money is not the thing you can do, give your time, I love it, um, even if it's just like one day a year when we do like a food drive, because you get to see what the good that you're doing yeah, and and I love that and it fills you up.
Speaker 1:I think too many people and too many times we throw money at problems. But if we went down and hung out for a week, that'd be for a year.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean. Money is helpful though.
Speaker 1:Don't forget the money, don't forget Venmo you do need to buy the food. Yeah.
Speaker 3:But yeah, no, it definitely. Don't forget the money. Don't forget Venmo. You do need to buy the food, yeah, but yeah, no, it definitely it changes you when you're helping people who are your neighbors.
Speaker 1:I love it, yeah, you might say good neighbors, yeah, yeah, because you become part of the community, doing the good.
Speaker 2:I love it Anything else you guys liked at Parting Shots.
Speaker 3:Thanks for letting me be part of. Carly's interview, because this was just supposed to be her. No, this is great.
Speaker 2:He can fill in on everything I forgot.
Speaker 3:No you guys are a daunting team.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah, no thanks for being here. Love to have you back, carly, thank you. Thank you, and David, a formal thank you. Thank you, I.
