"Oh, that's how it is. Sounds like you have a plan."

He plucks a leaf off one of a cabbage-looking thing and twirls it between his fingers. "Are you going to need a cook, or will you just be distributing them like this?"

...Look, he doesn't know how charities work... (He can't cook that well, anyway.) "We might need to recruit some more people." Also, a building, maybe. "Know anyone else who'd be interested?"