We’re all about bringing good food to everyone. LebensMittelPunkte provide an impulse to become active, and a chance to build more together. The idea is simple: we get together and organize activities in our neighborhoods in order to make healthy, regional and rescued food accessible to more people. We are not alone in this — we are a Berlin-wide network that helps projects support each other, exchange knowledge, and share resources. 

Our goal is to develop regular activities in every Berlin neighborhood, based on three pillars of action: as DEPOTS we are sourcing and distributing food together, as KITCHENS we are cooking and eating together, and as MEETING POINTS, we become hubs of activity in our communities.

Our LebensMittelPunkte network came into being in 2020. Ideas for something called  “LebensMittelPunkte” (like a food hub) had already been floating around in the Berlin food scene for several years. First volunteer initiatives had been founded. The idea was even a demand put forward by the Berlin Food Policy Council, and was also written into the Berlin Food Policy Strategy of the State of Berlin in 2019. 

What was missing, however, was a clear definition of and a strategy for what LebensMittelPunkte (LMP) exactly are, and how they can be created. So we put our heads together and changed that. In 2020, the project “Werkstatt LMP” was funded within the framework of the Berlin Food Strategy. Over a period of six months, we were able to launch the LebensMittelPunkte network – together with the already existing initiatives, neighbors and other actors working for food system change in the city region of Berlin-Brandenburg. We established our network as an independent alliance of all LMP initiatives. Since then, our network has continued to grow and receive funding from the city.