April 3, 2024

March 30, 2024, Calvary Food Pantry -- On Easter weekend we welcomed 134 households representing 451 individuals. This includes 10 new households comprised of 26 individuals. In addition to their regular shopping, each household was offered additional food to prepare an Easter dinner of ham, potatoes, fresh broccoli, pineapple, dinner rolls and butter.

 This weekend marked the end of the 1st quarter of 2024. We estimate that during the quarter we distributed over 40 tons of food which equates to approximately 70,000 meals.

 On behalf of the Executive Committee, thank you to our volunteers and our area churches, civic groups, local merchants, and families for all you do to feed our community, helping to reduce food insecurity.  We thank you and appreciate your food and monetary donations.      

 Special kudos to this Saturday’s volunteers who were able to find time on this busy holiday weekend to help feed Western North Carolina’s hungry. 

--Fred Yopps

 April 2, 2024, The Lord’s Acre, Fletcher -- Join us Thursday (4/4) at 4:30 to cover raised beds with row cover to protect from pests and predators AND to guard against an expected weekend freeze. We will also be harvesting beets from the hoophouse. (Thanks to Steve Stay who made wire hoops for the row cover.)

Wanna be on the harvest crew? Calvary member, Linda Wozniak, is coordinating our harvest crew. These are folks who are willing to get a text or email when we need to harvest vegetables outside our regular Thursday evening session. Sometimes we just don’t have time on Thursday evenings, and some vegetables keep better if picked on a Friday morning. Please text Linda Wozniak, 828-243-5534, with your email and phone if you’d like to be on her call list. Begin your text with “LAF” so she knows the reason for your text. Thank you!

 Bees returning soon to Lord’s Acre, Fletcher

This is an abbreviated email because Doug returned from Easter weekend in Winston-Salem to find a swarm of bees clustered in a holly bush at his house in Arden. He postponed other tasks to prepare a welcome to these homeless bees. You’ll see these “rescued” bees at the Lord’s Acre Fletcher garden in a few weeks together with an existing hive.

--Doug Kearney