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Struggling to Survive, Food Pantries are Shutting Their Doors
Natalie DiBlasio Sep 23, 2011 food pantry 0 comments
Every year millions of U.S. households turn to emergency food banks to support their families, but in the midst of the recession, there are more people who need and fewer able to give. As a result, food support systems across the nation are suffering, in some cases even closing down. In Tom’s River, New Jersey, the Ocean County Hunger Relief warehouse has seen a large increase in demand, manager Joe Latif said, according to the Asbury Park Press. “Never seen it this bad before,’’ Latif said. “Not only are our in-kind contributions but the monetary donations are way down. We have to pay the bills for the overhead and utilities, too.’’ Wayside Food Rescue Program coordinator Don Morrison in...
Breaking Ground in Indy
Nov 03, 2010 food pantry 1 comments
If you took a stroll around the Butler University intramural athletic fields just nine months ago, you would have seen nothing but soccer fields, tennis courts, gleaming bleachers, and acres of green turf grass-a barren desert in terms of biodiversity and productivity. But if you walked the same path in July, you would have found a plot of colorful heirloom tomatoes, a perimeter fence draped with multi-colored pole beans, a patch full of 20-pound watermelons and juicy muskmelons, and rows of other delicious fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs, many of which the typical grocery-store shopper has never beheld. [caption id="attachment_5210" align="alignleft" width="320" caption="Cucumbers...