3 days of food for your household when you visit us
HUNGER PREVENTION We provide enough food for half a million meals every year! I need food assistanceCan we help you fill a financial gap by providing food? You are welcome to visit any two of our three food pantries each month. Each visit provides enough food to feed each member of your household for three days. Please have the following documentation with you:
Hours:
Monday through Thursday, 9:30AM-12PM
123 East Hanover Street, Trenton 48 Hudson St., Trenton Monday, Wednesday & Thursday, 1:30PM-4:00PM Who We Serve:
What We Provide:Healthy Food – Together, our food pantries average 2,000 shopping visits each month. The variety of heart-healthy food filling our shelves and refrigerators includes fresh produce, eggs and milk, frozen proteins, quality baked goods, and prepared foods such as yogurts, salads and soups, and many shelf-stable canned and boxed food. Personal care products such as shampoo, soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes, diapers, and deodorant are often available. Healthy Living & Nutrition Education — linking better nutrition with improved health through:
Community Garden Produce —Dedicated volunteers cultivate and harvest fresh produce in our Hanover Garden in downtown Trenton. All produce grown in our garden is harvested and distributed in our pantry. We grow tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, kale, collard and mustard greens, cucumbers, squash, herbs, and more. Home Food Delivery — We deliver food once a month to homebound seniors and adults with disabilities. Health Screenings — In partnership with Capital Health System’s Community Health Program and First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, we offer information and health screenings to our clients to detect hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and other conditions. Attendees are offered a healthy lunch while they learn. COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND PARTNERSHIPS We thank our many community partners for helping us to provide an empowering shopping experience.Mercer Street Friends Food Bank, the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, Farmers Against Hunger, Yes We CAN! Food Drives, West Windsor Farmers Market, McCaffrey’s, Whole Foods Market, Panera Bread, ShopRite, Italian People’s Bakery, and other local supermarkets, restaurants, bakeries, farms, and community-based vegetable gardens such as those at the Peace Garden at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. Generous institutional support comes from the Walmart Foundation, the Bonner Foundation, the Mary Owen Borden Foundation, Novo Nordisk, Church & Dwight Co., Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
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