Rural Food Banks/Community Kitchen, helping feed the people that grow your food

I would be interested to see if there is any support, interest or need to start up a food bank serving Rural communities. This could be an extension of the community garden project that has been started on the farm. It would be nice to be able to make basic meals that could be made and then either picked-up or delivered to people in the local rural area in a frozen/cook/reheat serve format. Meals could be distributed in a manner that would respect the dignity and privacy of the individual. Meals could also be available on a "pay what you can" basis or for sale at set prices. If/how much a person pays for the food or meals would be kept private. Doing it this way would help eliminate the social stigma and shame of getting your food from a traditional "food bank"

People living in Rural communities less access, disposable income to pay for decent healthy food than people living in Urban areas. People in rural communities have higher incedences of health related problems linked to diet. Yet to my knowledge there are no food banks located in Rural Communities, I could be wrong and havent researched it other than a quick google search.

I was just sitting around back from another day of clearing someone else property for 8 bucks an hour so I can try and keep my farm up and running. Thinking how luck I am that the nice people I am working for make a lovely lunch (dinner out this way) and always invite me in to share it with them. As much as I some times have a hard time getting my self motivated to spend all day swinging an axe or chainsaw, cutting alders and pulling stumps by hand, I really look forward to at least one decent meal a day. Living on oatmeal, Mr. Noodles and Kraft Diner starts getting old quickly and sooooo nice to have fresh fruit, veggies and decent protein. For many of us that live in rural communities access to healthy fresh food on a regular basis is not an option. Its a 45 minute drive for me to leave the farm and find either a Supermarket or produce store that is fully stocked and operates year round. I dont work in "town" so if I want to buy some fresh produce and food it is going to cost me 20 bucks in fuel at least a 2 hour round trip plus the cost of the food. After working all day, coming back to do chores, let animals out, feed, water, the last thing that either I want to do or have time to do is to make a trip into town to go to the store. Let alone have the money in my pocket for fuel and expensive organic food.

The idea of having access to good food that I could just pop in the oven when I got home from work or in from doing chores would be such at treat and needed.