Meals on Main Street comes to Mt. Kisco

Food insecurity is skyrocketing across Westchester, with up to one in three households currently at the risk of hunger local relief organizations report.

Blame persistent inflation, high gas and grocery prices, escalating housing costs and sometimes, just plain old lack of access.

So, if folks in need can’t get to a free food source, it has to come to them.

That’s why Meals on Main Street (MOMS), a Port Chester-based nonprofit, knew how important it was to expand its territory.

MOMS gathers up surplus food from local supermarkets, farms and restaurants and turns it into ready-to-eat balanced meals that are distributed via mobile pantries to homebound individuals, houses of worship, schools and partners such as Neighbors Link in Mount Kisco.

The new facility will prepare food for communities in northern Westchester and parts of Putnam and Fairfield counties.

In 2025, the organization reported rescuing nearly 1.38 million pounds of food and providing more than 1.14 million meals. Those numbers are projected to reach 1,794,087 pounds of rescued food and 1,704,300 served meals by the end of this year.

In mid-September, MOMS held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for it second Westchester location, a new commercial-grade kitchen located at 325 West Patent Road in Mount Kisco.

It is leasing space at Trinity Presbyterian Church that was previously used by the Rippowam Cisqua School and is staffed by a baker’s dozen of employees and a whole bunch of volunteers.

(The food prep hub is not open to the public.)

The project was backed by a $200,000 infusion from the Westchester County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program.

Once up and running, the new facility hopes to provide – to start – up to 10,000 meals a month.

But growth isn’t just about bigger numbers; it’s about ensuring that no neighbor goes hungry.

And that takes showing up every day, in every neighborhood, according to MOMS executive director Jon Haseltine.

It’s about being ready to meet people exactly where they are.

“We’re trying to build community through food. Food is the common denominator that we all need,” he said.