Foodsharing in Kanthaus

Since 2012 the foodsharing movement is growing in Germany. On foodsharing.de people organize to pick up unsellable but still good food from businesses. Since 2017 this is also tackled in Wurzen thanks to Kanthaus.

Foodsharing is the topic that brought all of us together and for many of our members and volunteers it's still a focus. Maintenance and development of the online platform as well as the internationalization of the foodsaving movement were progressed mainly at Kanthaus for several years. This blog post tries to give an overview of these activities. Nowadays there is less work done on the overarching structures of foodsharing, and more is happening with regards to the local level.

Foodsharing in Wurzen

Between the end of 2017 and the pandemic, Kanthaus hosted a leftover brunch and a planning session evey month. The brunch is an open and free breakfast in familiar atmosphere and the planning session is to talk about what could be done in the coming weeks. For example, our info stand on Landgut Nemt's farm fair, the selection of possible new cooperation partners and food-share point locations were discussed here.

February 2018 became our foodsharing action month: We took to the streets to raise awareness for food waste, make contact with people and give lots of saved oranges away.

In August 2018 we finally opened our internal Food-Share Point in Kantstraße 22. Since then we open it every Tuesday, so that people can come and share food. The opening times are limited to those of the Free Shop though, so the wish to have a fully public Food-Share Point was still intense.

After a lot of work and struggles during the CoVid pandemic, we finally managed to open the city funded Food-Share Point in Wenceslaigasse in May 2021.

Foodsharing Landkreis Leipzig

Since 2023 we grew massively: There are 4 people in the position of ambassador now, who regularly have online meetings to discuss and progress the foodsharing district that now spans the whole administrative region on 'Landkreis Leipzig'. We have a multitude of cooperating businesses in the many small towns of our district, another public Food-Share Point in Böhlen, anually recurring potato distribution actions, gleaning, info stands, foodsharing brunches for the community and a lot more.

Take part!

You want to participate? Awesome! Bestto swing by on foodsharing itself! Or simply write us a mail and we'll gladly tell you how to get involved!