With the pandemic’s onset, requests for county services increased by 65 percent, most of which were for housing and food. Likewise, requests to nonprofit organizations, like food pantries, rose between 30 percent to as high as 400 percent. United Community’s new clients, for example, surged...
Because older adults are more likely to continue to volunteer at food pantries if they can do so safely, Food for Others checks workers’ temperatures and requires gloves and masks at its warehouse. It has also started a “Grow a Row” program, asking home gardeners to plant an extra row ...
That is amazing! Broome County CHOW serves over 100 local pantries and meal sites. That's why we need your help for CHOW to continue to assist families in need. Townsquare MediaWe are easy to spot in the Weis parking lot with the CHOW truck and an Oliver's of Norwich & Lafayette, ...
In 2021 and 2022, Harvest distributed nearly 10 million pounds of food to our neighbors in need. Those are not national numbers, that's local, that's right here. Harvest provides relief through food banking, mobile pantries, senior programs, and weekend backpack food for kids and school ...
We gave our first couple donations to different food pantries in the past week, mostly beets and carrots from the dedicated garden, which is doing well, thanks to help from my volunteer Holly, who weeds like a Champ and my neighboring gardener Mike, who keeps an eye on the water needs ...
Although we humans have been stuffing ourselves silly since the dawn of time, it’s only in the relatively recent past that we’ve stopped to reallythinkabout what we consume. The cream of this year’s crop of books on food and drink do precisely this, asking deep questions about the nat...
Low-Income Older Adults’ Use of Food Pantries as a Way to Cope with Food Insecurity 2014. Master’s Thesis, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA, 2017. [Google Scholar] Smith, J. The Effect of Resource Cycling and Food Insecurity on Dietary Intake and Weight of Low-Income, ...