In 1998, our founder John Visnauskas, AKA Jagadish, had a defining moment in his life. Happening to pass what was then called Cleveland Foodbank, he wrote down a phone number from the sign outside the urban warehouse. Soon a volunteer position turned into an Operations Management position, followed by decades of service founding, directing, mentoring, and partnering with dozens of anti-hunger organizations working together to combat food insecurity in Greater Cleveland, Ohio.

The organization John currently directs, Baba’s Yard, has distributed two hundred tons of fresh fruits and vegetables to households with limited incomes in partnership with Greater Cleveland Food Bank and the municipalities of Parma and Brooklyn, Ohio.

Most recently, Baba’s Free Kitchen had its premiere lunch service, offering delicious, plant-based meals-to-go at our garden sanctuary on Cleveland’s West Side, at 3001 Sackett Ave. (44109)