Open Monday to Friday, 9 to 5. Walk-ins welcome.Plan a visit

Neighbors feeding neighbors since 2009

Everyone deserves a seat at the table.

Common Table runs a free grocery pantry, weekly community meals, and a two-acre garden on the Northside. Come hungry, come to help, or just come say hello.

Open Tue–Sat, 9–4 · 418 Alder Street · No paperwork for your first visit

Supported by neighbors and partners like

Volunteers packing produce

What we do

A pantry that feels like a neighbor's kitchen.

We stock what families ask for, not what's easy to store. Volunteers greet you by name, help you shop, and send you home with a recipe for whatever's in season.

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Where would you like to begin?

2025 in numbers

A year of full plates.

Counted by hand at the front desk, one household at a time.

148k
Meals shared

Pantry groceries and Thursday dinners combined

3,012
Families served

Up 22% from 2024

340
Volunteers

Giving 21,600 hours

94¢
Of every dollar

Goes straight to food and programs

Stories

Heard around the table.

Short films about the people who cook, shop, grow, and show up every week.

Volunteers cooking

I came for food. I stayed for the kitchen.

3:08

Grace Lin, pantry manager

Kids planting seedlings

Kids in the garden, every Saturday

2:41

Garden program

Community dinner at dusk

One long table, 600 neighbors

4:15

Block party 2026

“The first time I came, I stood outside for ten minutes. Now I run the Saturday produce table. Nobody here ever made me feel like I was asking for anything.”

Grace LinPantry manager, neighbor since 2017

From the table

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Give monthly

$30 a month keeps a family's shelf full.

Monthly gifts let us buy fresh food in bulk and plan the season. 94 cents of every dollar goes straight to the table.

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