Mountain of Joy our local food bank has
moved from a garage at Kurrajong Heights
to the veranda Kurrajong Baptist Church,
after its founder Karen Suttle moved to
regional NSW.
Mountain of Joy is a food bank where you
can deposit surplus food stuffs and or
make a withdrawal of anything you need.
The great thing about Mountain of Joy is
that it helps decrease the amount of food
wastage.
According to Food Bank Australia about
7.5 billion tons of food is lost or wasted
each year. Yet one in six Australian adults
haven’t had enough to eat and 1.2 million
children have gone hungry in the last year.
Food wastage is a much bigger problem
than just feeding the hungry in our district.
We need to avoid waste and when we
can’t, we need to share our surplus by
trading it at Mountain of Joy for produce
we need.
“Mountain of Joy is a food swop and trading
service. I have shopped at
Mountain of Joy, cooked
the produce recently into
zucchini frittata, fed my
family and packaged the
excess into 6 meal size
containers and returned
these to Mountain of Joy
freezer for residents who
are looking for a nutritious
home cooked meal”.
Said a resident who did
not want to be named
because of the stigma associated with not
having enough money to buy food for your
family. “I do this from time to time when I
don’t have enough money to make ends
meet.”