We continue to have lots of veggies and we're always looking at ways we can get these veggies to folks that can use them. Since Epworth Food Pantry typically serves clients Monday thru Thursday we've been looking for places we can take vegges after Thursdays. Today we stopped by the Christian Assembly Church on Karl Road next to Brookhaven High School. Christian Assembly operates a food pantry on Saturday mornings from 9 to 11Am and also on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings. We were glad to share tomatoes with our neighbors down the street and looking forward to sharing more veggies with this wonderful ministry in the future.
The Helping Hands Food Pantry has a nice setup. We were impressed not only with the friendly volunteers hard at work, but also with how efficiently things were setup. They have an area where the food pantry clients check in and then there is a separate area where bags are packed. Approximately 75 families are served here each Saturday.
Your readers may want to visit www.AmpleHarvest.org - a site that helps diminish hunger by enabling backyard gardeners to share their crops with neighborhood food pantries.
ReplyDeleteThe site is free both for the food pantries and the gardeners using it.
Over 990 food pantries nationwide are already on it and more are signing up daily.
It includes preferred delivery times, driving instructions to the pantry as well as (in many cases) information about store bought items also needed by the pantry (for after the growing season).
If your community has a food pantry, make sure they register on www.AmpleHarvest.org.