Small Boats, Big Taste
Watch the Small Boats, Big Taste Documentary: Small Boats Big Taste: How a Community Responded to COVID
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Small Boats, Big Taste Documentary Premiered Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 5 p.m. to a Sold Out Audience!
Thank you to the Chatham Orpheum Theater for a special, free, showing of a new documentary filmed and edited by Mark Birnbaum and Seth Rolbein about the Fishermen’s Alliance Small Boats, Big Taste program.
Learn more about the documentary here.
Small Boats, Big Taste was recently featured on WCVB’s Chronicle!
Thank you to Anthony Everett and his team for putting together a wonderful program and showcasing all of our hard work!
Check out the WCVB article here.
You can live stream the episode by downloading the very local app!
Order today to enjoy hearty, healthy chowder or stew!
The containers are quick and easy to heat and serve, loaded with fish and high-quality ingredients, never any preservatives.
They also make wonderful gifts for friends and family.
Every purchase helps keep the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance strong, expands our deliveries of delicious, nutritious seafood to the community, and helps small-boat, independent fishermen do what they do best: fish!
To order, visit our online store.
Available Products:
– Haddock Chowder – traditional New England style, but lighter (allergens: fish (haddock, cod), milk, wheat)
– Provençal Fish Stew- made with local skate and hearty vegetables in a tomato-based, dairy-free, gluten-free broth (allergens: fish (skate), shellfish (clam))
– Clam Chowder – made with local surf clams in a traditional New England style (allergens: shellfish (clam), milk, wheat)
– Mixed Case
For questions about Small Boats, Big Taste call Holly 508-945-2432 x103
Available to purchase locally at
Mid-Cape Farmstand
Located at 349 Lower County Road, Dennis Port
Prices:
– One case (six 18 oz. containers): $60
– Individual container (18 oz.): $10
– Party sized bag (8 lbs.): $60
– One case (two Party sized 8 lb. bags): $120
Case purchases are encouraged and can include a mix of chowders and stew.
Pick up your order at Fishermen’s Alliance
1566 Main Street (Rte 28), Chatham 02633
Easy access and parking.
For availability click the orange button on the left!
Great Seafood for Great Causes
When COVID struck, small-boat, independent fishermen faced serious challenges. So did many people in our communities who weren’t sure how they could continue feeding their families.
Small Boats, Big Taste was our creative response.
Working with fishermen, fish processors, and a chowder maker all located in Massachusetts, we created Haddock Chowder and Provençal Fish Stew- made with local skate- using the best ingredients, fast-frozen to ensure highest quality.
With support from donors, foundations, grants, our community, The Greater Boston Food Bank, Barnstable County Cooperative Extension, CapeAbilities, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ food assistance programs, we send Small Boats, Big Taste products to food banks and pantries across the state. That includes food banks on Cape Cod, as well as local organizations that feed and support people facing food insecurity like the Family Table, Cape Wellness, Helping Our Women, St. David’s Episcopal Church and Cape Cod Veterans.
Since 2020, we have distributed more than 1.6 million servings of chowder and stew. That’s a lot of food to a lot of people, and we’ve won unanimous praise for the superb quality of what we make and share.
Now we want to share with you and build even more support for this inspiring effort.
It takes a village and we could not have done it without our partners:
- Haddock, skate, and surf clam fishermen
- Chatham Fish & Lobster
- Great Eastern Seafood
- Plenus Group, Inc
- Seatrade International
- Wellfleet Shellfish Co.
- The Greater Boston Food Bank
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank
- The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
- Worcester County Food Bank
- The Family Pantry of Cape Cod
- Vervaine Design Studio
- J&J Sign Co.
This program is made possible by funding from:
- Seaside Le Mans Fund of the Cape Cod Foundation
- Massachusetts Emergency Food Assistance Program
- Cape Cod Healthcare Community Benefits Program
- MDAR & Barnstable County’s Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
- USDA Community Food Program
- Massachusetts EEA Food Security Infrastructure Grant Program
- MIT Sea Grant Program
- Sailors’ Snug Harbor of Boston
- Catch Together
- Individual donors
Through a partnership with Barnstable County’s Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and Cape Abilities, funded by Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and USDA’s Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, we are providing weekly deliveries of chowder and stew to underserved communities on Cape Cod.
Chowder and Stew has been donated to the following partner organizations: The Family Pantry of Cape Cod, The Greater Boston Food Bank, Merrimack Valley Food Bank, The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, Worcester County Food Bank, New Hampshire Food Bank, Vermont Foodbank, Good Shepherd Food Bank, Connecticut Food Bank, Food Bank of Delaware, and Capital Area Food Bank.
Chowder has also been distributed locally through Family Table Collaborative, Cape Cod Hunger Network, Cape Abilities, Cape Wellness, Children’s Place, YMCA, Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center, Barnstable Council on Aging, St. David’s Episcopal Church, First Lutheran Church-West Barnstable, Kitchen 246, Community Table, Alzheimer’s Family Support Center of Cape Cod, Helping Our Women, Canaan 7th Day Church, Mustard Seed Kitchen, and Truro Community Kitchen.
“It’s crazy that the vast majority of what we catch is exported over seas and the majority of seafood we consume is imported. These days it’s more important than ever to take advantage of locally harvested fish. It’s just better for everyone.”
Captain Greg Connors, F/V Constance Sea
