Community Gardens

Community Kitchens

Food Banks

Free Meals

Where to Find Food in the Cowichan Valley

1.    Cowichan Community Kitchens:  Monthly sessions where kitchen members plan meals, shop and cook hot meals to take home to their families.  Call Lori at 748-0152.
2.    CMS Food Bank Society:  Hampers for families living in Cobble Hill, Mill Bay and Shawnigan Lake are available on Tuesdays from 10:00 to 2:00.  2740 Lashburn Road, Mill Bay.  Call 743-5242.  Bread is available every Tuesday.
3.    Cowichan Valley Basket Society:  Soup Kitchen opens Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 4:00.  Emergency food hampers available one per family per month.  5810 Garden Street, Duncan.  Call 746- 1566.  Bread is available most days.
4.    Lake Cowichan Food Bank:  Hampers available once per month.  Register two days in advance.  Lake Cowichan Christian Fellowship Church, 57 King George Street.  Call 749-6822.
5.    Ladysmith Food Bank:  Hampers available Tuesday from 10:00 to 12:00.  At the Resource Centre.  Call 245-3079.
6.    Chemainus Harvest House Food Bank:  Hampers available Friday 1:00 to 3:00 at Chemainus United Church.  Call Bob at 246-3716.
7.    Salvation Army:  Food vouchers available.  Free bread is available at the thrift stores.  Call 746-8669.
8.    Open Door:  Open to Club Members through Duncan Mental Health.  447 St. Julian Street.  Monday to Thursday 8:00 to 4:00.  Dinner Wednesday night.  Friday lunch at Providence Farm.  Call 748-5588.
9.    Healthiest Babies Possible:  Food vouchers for mothers-to-be.  Lunch on Wednesday.  Hiiye’yu Lelum Society.  Call 748-2242.
10.    Loaves and Fishes Community Supper:  Hot Sunday Dinner on the Third Sunday each month at 5:00 at Duncan United Church, 246 Ingram Street.
11.    Community Supper:  Supper on the Fourth Saturday of each month at 5:00 at the Duncan Christian Reformed Church, 930 Trunk Road, Duncan.
12.    Community Supper:  Supper on the Second Saturday of each month at Duncan Pentecostal Church, 931 Trunk Road, Duncan.
13.    Community Dinner:  Lake Cowichan Christian Fellowship Church.  Third Sunday of the month at 4:00.
14.    Breakfast Club:  Laundry Monday to-Friday, Food Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  Right by Friendship Centre
15.    Meals on the Mound:  Dinner - Monday/Wednesday/Friday    5:00 pm at the Mound.
16.    Community Centre:  Clothing/Showers – Thursday and Friday mornings at the Change rooms at Cowichan Community Centre.
17.    Church of Nazarene:  Big Dinner - Tuesday before Welfare Wednesday, Sherman Road.
18.    Baptist Church:  Breakfast - 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month - Ypres Street.
19.    United Church:  Frozen Food Items - all the time.