Donate Food

Donations of food from homes and businesses really helps stock the shelves here at the Pantry. Please review our guidelines for donating to ensure that your generosity makes its way from you, to our shelves, and to our shoppers.

Table with canned and boxed food items set up for donation, including Cheerios cereal boxes, with a sign advertising donation options, in a room with shelves and other supplies in the background.

Hosting A Food Drive

Food drives not only supply the Pantry with a variety of goods, they also bring people together to help the community and raise awareness of the Pantry’s work.

Please reach out to our Food Drive Coordinators Julia Baier and Carrie Thayer to get your drive started!

  • Contact us first to schedule your drive. Once scheduled, we’ll provide you with materials to promote your drive.

  • Organize a food drive at your business, school, church, health club, coffee shop, book group, or any other place! Or, host a party where guests bring non-perishable foods instead of bottles of wine!

  • Please note, you must have scheduled your food drive delivery in advance. We are otherwise unable to provide the staffing & space to receive your donations.

Schedule Your Drive
Two boxes filled with various grocery food items including pasta, cereal, and canned goods.

  • Smaller donations of unexpired, shelf-stable goods can be dropped off in the black bins outside the Pantry.

    Larger donations, especially those requiring refrigeration, can be delivered by appointment. Please contact our Food Drive Coordinators to schedule your delivery.

  • Condiments, spices, teas, and coffee may not be essentials but our shoppers always appreciate them since salt, pepper, mayo, ketchup, sugar, jams and salad dressings add a bit of “spice” to a basic diet.
    Although the Pantry’s main concern is feeding people we also distribute personal hygiene products. Toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, deodorant, combs and brushes, shampoo and conditioner are all popular items.

  • If you grow vegetables for your family why not plant an extra row for the Pantry? Every little bit helps to feed those in need. And, if your chickens are laying more eggs than you need bring the extras to the Pantry (we’ll even give you empty cartons for next time)! Whether you grow a lot or a little we’d love to receive your extra’s any Thursday morning between 10-1.

    If you have large quantities of fresh items, please contact us!

Other Ways To Help

Here are some important ways of helping the Pantry that you might consider:

Shelves stocked with canned foods such as beans, fruits, and vegetables in a grocery or storage room.

The Essentials

The best unexpired, non-perishable items to donate are:

canned/dried beans
peanut butter/other nut butters
breakfast cereals including rolled oats
canned fruit/vegetables
canned soups
canned tuna/salmon/chicken
brown rice/quinoa/other grains
white and whole grain pasta, pasta sauce
white and whole grain flour, cornmeal
condiments, cooking oil, coffee, tea
toiletries such as shampoo, soap, toothpaste

​*Fresh eggs and seasonal produce are also welcome if arrangements are made in advance.

 If possible, low-salt, low-sugar foods are preferred.