Living in Love food pantry garden
A volunteer-run garden that provides produce to local soup kitchens and food pantries to address food insecurity in the local community is seeking help to build a cold-storage room to prevent produce waste.
Why It Matters
Food pantries have only set times for delivering produce. In peak harvest months, produce ripens in large quantities, especially during the hottest months. The garden is on the grounds of a church, and the church has agreed to allow a classroom to be converted into a cold-storage room for the garden. This will allow a longer window between harvest and delivery. The creation of the cold-storage room will help guarantee the bounties of the garden, and the hard work of volunteers, isn’t wasted.
The Impact
Lawrence Township is a very diverse and caring community. Volunteers working with Living in Love food pantry garden say they have seen just how true that is. The area is racially diverse and among the volunteers are people who grew up in the local area, people who came from Puerto Rico, and immigrants from as far away as India and Poland. This very diverse group of volunteers works happily together for people in need. This project will help address both the community’s physical needs by producing food, and also the psychological needs of many during this dark time of loneliness and isolation.
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