With gloves at the ready and a kitchen waiting to be used, owner and founder of Minkle Boys Catering Company, Danny Minkle, picked up a phone call for a promise he made three years ago.

"We talked about this before Frogfoot Farm even existed, now it exists," he said.

Minkle will be making meals for homeless people across the South Coast using locally grown crops from the Marion Institute's Frogfoot Farm. The six acre farm grows and harvests fresh produce for neighbors in need across Bristol, Plymouth and Norfolk counties. 

Born and raised in Onset, Minkle said the homeless population is everywhere, but has grown in town over the years. Minkle stressed the importance of getting food to those in need regardless of their situation.  

"It's tough living right now," he said. "We do outreach and some people may be drug abusers and all of that — doesn't matter. They're still homeless, they still have to eat," he said. 

This isn’t the first time Minkle and the Marion Institute have worked together, during the pandemic, Minkle helped the institute provide over 8,000 meals in four months.

"It kept my business afloat during Covid because nobody was hiring me for parties anymore," he said.

Starting Friday, Sept. 5, and lasting throughout the remainder of 2025, members from Southcoast Health will be handing out food to those in need. Minkle says the team has a list of people and locations and will deliver the meals directly. 

"Every Wednesday morning I'll go to the farm and get what I need. They'll pick it up on Friday and the meals will be ready to go," he said. 

Minkle said that he also partnered with a nearby slaughter house that will donate bones for stock and soups. 

"We're taking stuff that's going to be made within a 40 mile radius and give it to the people that don't have food, it's all local," he said.

As the program progresses, Minkle said he hopes he can help people get off the streets and have better lives. He said he will provide nutritious meals that balance food groups and will have a different meal every week depending on what the farm provides.

"It all starts with what they're eating, I think it snowballs. If they're not eating right how are they going to do anything? I'm just hoping it helps," he said.