Picnic & Food Drive
Picnic with your neighbors in the park and drop off shelf-stable food for neighbors in need
Everybody Eats Community Picnic
Join the Everybody Eats Community Picnic in Westminster Pocket Park!
Bring a blanket, light snacks or a full lunch, and enjoy the nice November weather with your neighbors. We will have music and other performances, so you can enjoy lunch and a show!
This is a no alcohol event with a focus on sustainability. So please pack your picnic basket appropriately and use reusable, recyclable, and/or compostable containers.
Keep Austin Fed Food Drive
We are partnering with Keep Austin Fed to host a shelf-stable food drive as well as #GiveHealthy virtual food drive as part of the Everybody Eats Community Picnic in Westminster Pocket Park.
1 in 7 people in Austin do not know where their next meal is coming from. 1 in 3 of them are children.
Over 30% of food in the U.S. goes uneaten, mostly going to landfills where it generates environmentally harmful methane gas.
Keep Austin Fed is a champion for our neighbors experiencing food insecurity and they serve our community through the redistribution of wholesome, nutritious food.
Keep Austin Fed Food Drive
Bring additional Shelf-Stable Food so Keep Austin Fed can help make sure Everybody Eats
Keep Austin Fed rescues primarily wholesome, perishable food from businesses all over Austin throughout the year. We invite you to donate fresh foods through the #GiveHealthy virtual food drive.
At Cyclovia ATX you can also donate non-perishable food items in-person at the Ghisallo Cycling Initiative event check-in tent when you arrive. At the end of the event, Keep Austin Fed will work with a distributor to deliver the food directly to one of their Hubs to be distributed.
Keep Austin Fed has created a list of most frequently requested items from their partners, particularly those who serve children, older adults, people with disabilities, and our unhoused community.
- peanut butter (a spoonful makes for an excellent source of quick protein!) – plastic jars are fine, but the single serving packets are even better
- packets or pop-top cans of tuna, salmon, chicken
- pop-top cans or peel-top cups of fruit (peaches, pears, pineapple, and mandarin oranges seem to be some of the favorites)
- pop-top cans of soup or pasta meals
- granola or cereal bar type snacks
- fruit roll-ups/fruit chews
- snack packs of crackers with peanut butter or cheese
- squeeze pouches (eg., apple sauce or fruit puree)
Think “snacks” and “easy to eat”, especially stuff that doesn’t require any cooking.