Feed Durham Partnership Grows

In the middle of 2025, CANDOR had to make the difficult decision to close the community fridge at Part & Parcel. This decision was made for the safety, dignity, and collective care of our community and our staff. However, we remained devoted to developing more community-rooted, equitable, and safer systems of food access. So we paused, recalibrated, and began to reimagine, with continued and new community partners, how we would move forward, and sustain, in feeding one another.

We officially joined forces with Feed Durham to build sustainable mutual aid ecosystems so we could meet the ever-increasing needs of our most vulnerable neighbors while building interdependence and community self-reliance. Together, CANDOR and Feed Durham are sharing resources and collaborating on food access projects specific to West End, Lyon Park, Lakewood Park, and similar vicinities.

CANDOR's "Yellow House" will act as a hub for food resources and be home to a community garden, installed by Feed Durham. This hub is a temporary landing zone for foods as they make their way into community. Feed Durham has brought in refrigerators and this allows us to hold items a little bit longer as we coordinate with those in need in real time. 

Food is coming in through many avenues, including from CANDOR's West End Free Market and Part & Parcel. It moves out within hours, reaching the most vulnerable in our community through the trusted hands of community leaders and connectors.

Feed Durham will have volunteers at the Yellow House every Saturday afternoon to receive donations, and they will host distributions, garden workdays, and skill shares on a rotating schedule.