November 6, 2024

This past Saturday, the pantry was filled with neighbors and volunteers including nine students from Christ School.  Not only did our neighbors leave with a shopping cart filled with their personal food selections but also were offered warm hats with matching gloves.  We welcomed 95 neighbors representing 373 individuals.  Nine new families joined us shopping for 3 1/2 days of food or 11 meals.

Our garden continues to flourish with carrots and collards which we will be harvesting at 4:00 on Thursday afternoon.  In the hoop house, we planted Bok Choy for the first time.  Hope you can join us for fellowship time and harvesting.

On behalf of our Pantry Board, we express our heartfelt gratitude for your generous food and monetary donations to our pantry. Your donations will make a significant impact on the lives of those in our community who are struggling with food insecurity.

For The Executive Committee, -- Kathy Noyes

From The Lord’s Acre, Fletcher

Harvest in the garden Thursday, 4 pm

Join us Thursday at 4pm to harvest collards and carrots in the field as well as bok choy in the hoophouse. (The bok choy is beautiful, but we’ll see if pantry clients like it—it’s an experiment.)

Some of our regulars are not able to come as we move to the earlier work session time of 4pm. So if you ARE available at that time, we will welcome you with open arms.

If it’s raining Thursday afternoon, we can still harvest bok choy and pull up pepper plants in the hoophouse.

The Calvary Food Pantry continues to be a concrete expression of the community’s compassion and love for those at the edges, especially as we continue to recover from damaging and disruptive effects of Helene. Part of that concrete expression of compassion and love is fresh and beautiful produce from the Lord’s Acre garden. Thanks for being part of that work!