The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County opened its South County Sharehouse at the beginning of the month. It’s capable of storing more than 1 million pounds of disaster-dedicated food.
“Food insecurity can strike anyone at any time whether it’s people who are hungry or a natural disaster. It could be any sort of loss, so its not just the low-income community, it can truly be anyone,” says Kevin Easter.
Easter and Cole Beattie with Unity Shoppe, a Santa Barbara-based non-profit, are one of 200 countywide organizations picking up weekly shipments of food from the foodbank’s new Sharehouse…