Welcome to the Thousand Oaks Community Food Recovery Hub!
Adelante works with the City of Thousand Oaks and the County of Ventura to expand food recovery, storage, and distribution in the City of Thousand Oaks. If you are a food producer (restaurant, dining hall, farm, or banquet facility), we can help facilitate your edible food donations.
To reduce food waste and help address food insecurity, SB 1383 requires that by 2025 California will recover 20 percent of edible food that would otherwise be sent to landfills, to feed people in need. The law directs the following:
Jurisdictions (cities and counties) must establish food recovery programs and strengthen their existing food recovery networks
Food donors (large grocery stores, restaurants, dining halls), must arrange to recover the maximum amount of their edible food that would otherwise go to landfills
Food recovery organizations (nonprofit food pantries) and services that participate in SB 1383 must maintain records
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In mid-December 2025 the Sustainability Division of the City of Thousand Oaks solicited proposals from food recovery organizations and services based in the City of Thousand Oaks for establishment of a food recovery hub.
The primary goal of the hub is to ensure that Thousand Oaks food recovery organizations have increased capacity to safely accept surplus food donations from Thousand Oaks Tier 1 and Tier 2 commercial edible food generators.
In January 2026, Adelante submitted our food recovery hub proposal.
On March 10, 2026, the Thousand Oaks City Council voted to award CalRecycle grant funds to Adelante Comunidad Conejo. These funds are designated for the creation of a Community Food Recovery Hub intended to expand food recovery in the City in compliance with SB 1383. The MOU is available for review here.
