Simmering Pot Delivery
Soup's On!
Since 2020, Healthy Peninsula has partnered with The Simmering Pot to deliver free and nourishing soup and bread on Mondays to those in our community who cannot get to the in-person meal at the Congregational Church in Blue Hill. If you want to eat in or take-out, you can go to 22 Tenney Hill, Blue Hill, between 2:30 and 6 on Mondays (except holidays). If you need delivery, please contact us at 374-3257.
For many years, the Simmering Pot served a free, in-person meal every Monday to anyone, regardless of income. When COVID closed the meal site, we partnered with the all-volunteer group that cooked for the Simmering Pot to develop a weekly meal delivery for community members who were food insecure due to barriers such as income, transportation, or COVID health concerns. When the Simmering Pot resumed in person service in Blue Hill in December 2022, all partners agreed to maintain the delivery program partnership, more than doubling their pre-covid meal production, because many of the delivery recipients were unable to attend the in-person meal.
Healthy Peninsula’s role in this partnership is to coordinate program participants, volunteer kitchens, support food donations, volunteers, and route development for weekly meal delivery throughout our 9-town region. We provide community resource orientation and referral for volunteers (to pass on to recipients) and to recipients directly as issues arise. We also coordinate additional occasional services to go along with the soup delivery (e.g. in-home vaccines, donated flowers, resource events).
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These meals are made possible by the generosity, culinary talents, commercial kitchens, and community spirit of the Simmering Pot kitchen and many community partners including Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital, Tinder Hearth Bakery, St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church (Deer Isle), the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill, St. Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church (Blue Hill), home bakers, and volunteer delivery drivers.
Soup and bread are available for anyone who signs up, no payment required (but donations gratefully accepted). For more information, fill out this form, leave a message at 374-3257, or e-mail awind@healthypeninsula.org.
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