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- Queen Street Commons Café
Maurita's Kitchen is the hub where the food for the Queen Street Commons Café is prepared.
Our volunteers prepare vegetarian entrées, baked goods, and desserts.
- GROW Herbal Gardens
The kitchen will provide a space for processing harvest from GROW Herbal Gardens and for creating various herbal products.
Queen Street Bake Oven
Foods such as doughs for bread and pizza are prepared in the kitchen and transported to a wood-fired bake
oven at Queens Greens Community Garden for baking.- Whole Food Box Community Supported Agriculture
The Whole Food Box program provides fresh, organic, and varied produce from local farmers to members of the CSA
program. Maurita's Kitchen will serve as a place to process this produce.
- Youth Mentorship in Agriculture
Training for youth in Urban Agriculture is supplemented by this kitchen, providing the opportunity to teach food preparation skills to those involved.
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Volunteering!
The kitchen offers a practical learning environment, where volunteers make all the meals
from scratch. If you wish to volunteer with the kitchen, contact Margaret at 749-9177 ext. 232.
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Funding for Maurita's Kitchen
Thank you to those who have contributed to the building of Maurita's Kitchen:
- The Ontario Trillium Foundation has contributed $126,000 towards the cost of renovating 66 Queen St. S.
- HRSDC has contributed labourers and $41,000 for building materials for 66 Queen through a Job Creation Partnership.
- The Cowan Foundation offered a substantial contribution of $30,000 to build, furnish, and equip Maurita's Kitchen.
- ACE Bakery has given $10,000 towards the development of Maurita's Kitchen
For more information drop in at 58 Queen Street South, or call Margaret at (519) 749-9177 ext. 232.
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