By Cynthia Boyd, Ocotober 31, 2011
Once a year Michael Ziomko crafts 500 or so of his signature iron-black soup bowls to give away. And potter Jennie Lanners adds another couple hundred of her own colorful design, all for a neighborly good cause. Read More
By Jean Hopfensperger, June 7, 2011
Three days a week, a funky bus transformed into a kitchen-on-wheels parks in a Minneapolis or St. Paul neighborhood. Inside cooks whip up such entrees as stuffed green peppers or zucchini with brie cheese, while others drag out a sign saying, “Free Meal Here Tonight.” Read More
Sisters Camelot, the nonprofit collective that has shared organic produce and other food around the Twin Cities since 1997, upgraded their services this spring to include a full service kitchen. Now, in addition to traveling with the brightly colored transit bus that delivers the organic food, the collective has begun their Bluebird Kitchen Bus program, a fully equipped kitchen-in-a-bus that delivers healthy made-from-scratch meals for free. This week, they’re in the parking lot of St. Olaf Lutheran Church, on 28th and Emerson in North Minneapolis, serving much needed hot meals to North Siders who have been affected by the tornado. Read More
By Bill Lindeke, February 16th, 2011
The Camelot crew is riding through Minneapolis in an old bus painted with the message “Free Organic Food” when, idling at a stoplight, a van pulls up in the next lane. The driver is a round bald man in a white T-shirt, resting his meaty elbow on the downrolled window. Read More
By Jeanette Fordyce, November 17, 2010
“People know us on the streets, recognize our bus,” said David Senn, a gardener and bus driver for Sisters’ Camelot, a working free organic food collective in Minneapolis. “It is nice to feed people, especially starving people out on the streets. It is satisfying to feed hungry people such good food.” Senn has been with Sisters’ Camelot for eight of the organization’s 14 years, working 10 to 40 hours per week as needed. Read More
by Elaine Klaassen, February 2006
Sister’s Camelot is a group of young people that I call the “new hippies.” Like their predecessors, they don’t buy into the consumer culture, they are not war-mongering, they believe it’s good to eat organic food and ride bicycles to conserve the health of the environment, but in contrast, they don’t have the same arrogant, judgmental edge that I encountered among the hippies of my generation. These kids still want to change the world, but they have a lighter touch. I think they are somewhat resigned to the military-industrial complex, as though they see what an impossibly huge machine it is and all they can do is try to cast light into its shadow. They give off an unruly warmth, like fire. Read More
