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JLM Food Rescuers

“Creating together a sustainable and community-oriented urban food system.”

Us in Numbers:

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770

Tons of food

rescued

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400

Volunteers 

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15,800

Individuals visited us or tasted our food

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9,200

 students learned about food sustainability

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900

families receive food through our network

Our Story

Welcome to The Food Rescuers, where we're on a mission to combat food waste, one-third of which currently ends up discarded.

Our goal? To reclaim this wasted potential and create a collaborative, resilient, and equitable urban food system. By bringing together residents of all ages, businesses, municipal entities, and organizations, we're shaping innovative models to tackle the city's food challenges while fostering sustainable and respectful relationships with food.

Join us in addressing one of the most urgent issues of our time and crafting promising solutions for a future that benefits us all. Together, we can reimagine a future that belongs to us all.
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Food Rescue

Ever wonder what happens to all that extra produce at the wholesale market? Well, wonder no more! Since the start COVID, we've created a partnership with the businesses of the market and rescued tons of fresh produce from going to waste.

 

With the help of over 150 amazing volunteers and partners across the city, we're teaming up with the municipality to develop pilot programs for a city-wide food recovery program

Check out the locations we distribute food in the city

Community
Based Food Security

Let's talk community! All the abundance we rescue we give back through 20 different existing community networks and NGOs to those who least receive support - East Jerusalemites, asylum seekers, ultra-Orthodox single mothers, Domari, elderly folks immobilized and more.  We are aiming to move away from the traditional charity model of food distribution - through our 7 community pop-up markets, located in schools, community gardens or community centers, where you pay what you want, we're making sure everyone can take food and take part. These markets aren't just about food – they're about empowering local leaders, building stronger communities, and enabling residents to share their knowledge by leading workshops and activities around the markets. 

Edible Education

From workshops to tours, lectures to school programs, we're committed to engaging as many people as possible to share and connect more with our food, demonstrate creative cooking with ingredients readily available at home, teach preservation and fermentation techniques, and showcase the wholesale market through walking tours.

The Third: 
A Sustainable Culinary Space

Whether we’ve received 1 ton of tomatoes, 300 kilos of pomegranates, or green garlic stalks - our kitchen is always experimenting to cook up whatever the market brings to us. With a dynamic plant-based menu that mirrors the ever-changing market, we create on-the-fly, adapting to the daily variations in market finds.
 
Join us for a culinary experience in our place or cater from us - to see how we turn rescued ingredients into unique and delicious meals, showcasing the creativity born from minimizing waste.
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Our Activities

Want to order an event from us? Check out our activities here

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DONATION

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