NeighborhoodLowry Hill East (The Wedge)
The Wedge Food Share and a Neighborhood That Feeds Itself
The Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association is raising $8,000 to keep its all-volunteer Wedge Neighborhood Food Share running through 2026.
The Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association, known as LHENA or the Wedge, is raising $8,000 to sustain its Wedge Neighborhood Food Share, which gives away free groceries to more than 100 households a month and is run entirely by volunteers. The association says the program helped more than 10,000 neighbors and moved nearly 60,000 pounds of groceries in 2025.
The food share works through a volunteer network of more than 180 neighbors and distributes from two Wedge locations, SpringHouse Ministry Center and Sencha Tea Bar. SpringHouse, at 610 W. 28th St., hosts distributions the second Saturday, third Wednesday and fourth Saturday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Donations can be made online through the association's GiveMN page or by check mailed to LHENA at 1017 W. 24th St., Minneapolis, MN 55405, with a note designating the funds for the Food Share.
The $8,000 goal is modest by design, the kind of figure a neighborhood can reach through small gifts rather than outside grants. That keeps the program rooted in the community but also dependent on continued volunteer energy and periodic fundraising. In a neighborhood of more than 9,000 residents with many renters and a wide income range, the share addresses food insecurity close to home, run by the same volunteers who organize the Wedge's other civic work.
NeighborhoodLowry Hill East (The Wedge)
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