ABOUT The Mama Edna Project
Mama Edna, with her son Timothy on the right and his partner Andrew on the left
Mission Statement: To bring awareness of food insecurities as they exist among our most vulnerable populations, to gift it forward by honoring Mama Edna’s legacy of feeding those who are hungry and to lift folks out of these insecurities by helping them thrive in all aspects of their lives to include helping them grow their own food when possible.
Mama Edna Honeycutt McLamb was diagnosed with lung cancer in late 2012, a few short months after her 74th, Pink-Hair Birthday. In the early months of 2013, her children, husband and I took turns driving Mama Edna to appointments. During this time, we discovered that many folks with debilitating conditions are often alone and lack support and the financial means to sustain them before, during and post treatments.
We often juiced for Mama Edna and discovered how well her body responded, and in doing so, discovered how helpful this process was for so many folks who needed nutritional boosts in their diets. Thus, began the mission of paying it forward for Mama Edna. We bought several juicers in early 2013 before Mama Edna got her heavenly wings in May. It was then that we began our journey to creating an officialnonprofit to honor her legacy of helping others. In August 2013, in the same week we got our finalized paperwork from Elaine Marshall’s office at the Secretary of State, friends in Jamestown, NC helped out by creating our first fundraiser full of music and food and juicing!!
Over the next decade, we bought many juicers for folks, spent lots of 💲money 💲 on fresh, organic 🥦 produce 🥒 for juicing and eating and sustaining folks. We grew mountains of wheat grass and delivered it to homes. We did in home demos of juicers and made folks comfortable with the process. We made trips to doctors offices with clients when no one else could go. We helped win some cancer battles and we lost a few, but every family felt that our support gave a better quality of life no matter the ultimate outcome.
In 2020 when COVID struck and everyone was isolated, we discovered there were folks in need of food and that 1 in 5 people in North Carolina were and STILL are suffering from food insecurity. Our aid became mostly food gift cards. Now, we are looking for the funding to open a 🌎♻️thrift store ♻️🌎to bring more awarenss and much more fundraising to the food security platform. From this spot is where our journey will continue…..(side note, Mama Edna loved pink and she loved butterflies, hence the logo.)
Please email us with any questions you have. Thanks so much for your support over the years and for your continued support as we make this dream a reality. 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋
Andrew Klutz, Co-Founder and CEO
Timothy McLamb, Co-Founder and Secretary (and 3rd child of 4)
Don, Pam and Patti (children 1, 2 and 4) and major supporters
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We began as a multi-faceted non-profit community in 2013 dedicated to helping people with cancer or other life-threatening or debilitating medical conditions obtain a juicer and fresh produce to feed it–before, during, and after treatment. We have purchased many items to provide a “tool kit” filled with goodies, cook books, juicing tips and more to help make the cancer journey more bearable. We also feel strongly about fighting food insecurity in North Carolina as Mama Edna would never want to see someone go hungry.
Our mission is to help folks with cancer or other life-threatening or debilitating disease live stronger, happier lives through the nutritional boosts juicing, blending and eating fresh raw produce can supply. “Paying it Forward” was part of Mama Edna’s daily life. Here we continue her legacy by offering loving, compassionate support, hope and quality of life needed to take on the cancer treatment journey, especially to folks who may or may not have the care giving team that Mama Edna had.
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 and beyond, we have also used Mama Edna’s “Pay It Forward” legacy to help fight food insecurity in North Carolina, specifically with donations to Dorcas Ministries Food Pantry in Cary, North Carolina. Mama Edna loved to shop at the Dorcas Thrift store with her best friend and cousin Idell. We also gave funding and lumber to Restoration Church in Willow Springs, NV to build a food pantry to serve the immediate community close to where Mama Edna grew up. If you would like to make a donation to our organization, please let us know into which purse you would like the money to go: helping our cancer clients, helping food insecurity or no preference.
We operate currently from private donations from folks like you. More than 98% of all donations go to support our program. We try to pay any filing fees ourselves. We do use the account to pay for the web hosting, but generally one of us puts the money into the account to pay for it. We are all volunteers trying to make a difference.
We currently accept Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, cash and check payments for donations. Food may be ordered via our Amazon Wishlist called Food Security. https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3VOTY0OA8V0KT?ref_=wl_share
Check donations (made out to The Mama Edna Project) may be mailed to: