Desperate Need for Food Donations; Summer Food Drive Extended | |
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The Holly Springs Food Cupboard desperately needs food donations. We are extending our call for summer food drive donations through August.
- Through the end of June this year, the Cupboard has experienced a 32% increase in clients (the number of households served over this same time last year) in contrast to a 6% increase in food donations.
- The Cupboard is spending an unprecedented average of $3,300 weekly on items needed for distribution. Food donations are needed as the quantities of foods we need often cannot be found at one grocery store alone.
- Each summer, we find it harder and harder to reach our donation goals as food needs continue to increase.
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Our goal is to collect 50,000 pounds of food by September 1. We currently are at 40% of our goal with 20,246 pounds donated so far. Thank you for considering helping replenish our shelves and helping local families facing food insecurity. | |
Around the Cupboard Last Month | |
Churches Bless Cupboard with Continued Support | |
The Holly Springs Food Cupboard is grateful for continued significant support from two local churches. | | |
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Over the past six months, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has gifted the Cupboard nearly 8,500 pounds of food valued at $12,000. This donation has brought in a consistent supply of the shelf-stable foods that go into the boxes and bags client families receive, and we've been very grateful to receive it. The latest donation was this Tuesday (pictured, left, with Dave and Lane Yow, who transported the donations from Greensboro). | |
A supporter of the Cupboard from the beginning, Sunrise United Methodist Church has continued its support with a food drive, which spanned two weekends and brought in more than 1,000 pounds during this critical summer when food donations are especially needed. | |
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Once again, the Jacobs Solutions Inc. team really delivered! Pictured here are Nathan and Ty dropping off very-much-needed donations. | | | |
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Huge thank you to Holly Grove Elementary School for becoming a Cupboard shelf sponsor!
The school is focusing on keeping the Cupboard's cereal shelf stocked - a significant help as more than 250 boxes of cereal are distributed to Cupboard clients every week.
Thank you!
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Many thanks to the Devils Ridge Ladies Golf Association for a food and monetary donation drive. We are so grateful! | |
Grateful for the Villages of Pecan Grove, which brought in much-needed food! Thank you so much! | |
DS Smith donated 500 corrugated cardboard trays that the Cupboard will use to store non-perishable foods in our warehouse. Thank you so much! | |  |
We are so thankful to the Sunset Ridge Barracudas Swim Team that brought in much-needed food from a drive they put together. Thank you for helping us try to reach our #HungerDoesntTakeAVacation goal this summer! | | |
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Thank you to Angela and family and the Hemlock Bluffs crew for hosting the garden team last month and allowing us to harvest more than 125 bamboo stakes to use in the Cupboard garden. Despite hot and humid weather, the Cupboard now has a supply of stakes for supporting eggplant and pepper plants.
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It’s tomato season! The Cupboard generally grows about six tomato varieties each year. They are harvested three times weekly and are distributed, so fresh and delicious, to our clients. | | |
One of our regular Saturday mother/daughter volunteer teams bundled up some beautiful carrots. Our red carrots are both eye-catching and healthy! | | |
This team from Cornerstone Building Brands volunteered in our garden and started cabbage and collard seeds for Fall crops. They also helped harvest 58 pounds of peppers, tomatoes, carrots, squash, okra, and onions. Thank you! | |
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Just a few updates on our amazing garden!
🐝 We've harvested about 75 pounds of honey so far this year!
🍇 Grapes are bunching up nicely.
🍓Strawberries are maturing but small.
🥕 Spring carrots are beginning to be harvested.
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These are just a few of the several hundred volunteers who helped grow so many fresh vegetables in our Food Cupboard Gardens for our clients in June. Without them we could not do our job! | |
Getting Help & Helping Out | |
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Do you need food assistance? Know someone who does?
Please visit us. The Holly Springs Food Cupboard is here to help. Drive through food distribution is every Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Shopping food distribution by appointment only is every Monday, 1-4 p.m. Deliveries are available to persons with compromised health or without transportation. Click here for more information or to sign up for an appointment to shop in person.
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Donating Food? How to Get Food to the Cupboard | |
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The Cupboard can receive donated food on:
- Preferred hours: Mondays 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Also: Thursdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Bring donations to the delivery dock on the side of our facility and ring the doorbell for assistance. Or, give us a call and we can meet you to pick up food from your neighborhood.
If you have food that you want to deliver at other times, you can take it to one of our community drop-off sites listed below. If necessary, we can arrange a time for a pick-up. Please do not leave food outside the Cupboard.
Community Drop-Off Sites
- Bless Your Heart Boutique, 242 S. Main Street, Ste. 106
- Coastal Credit Union, Village Walk Drive
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Coldwell Banker HPW, 5261 Sunset Lake Road
- First Flight Federal Credit Union, Village Walk Drive
- Holly Springs Farmers Market, West Ballentine Street
- Holly Springs Town Hall, Main Street
- Keller Williams Legacy, 1483 Beaver Creek Commons Dr., Apex
- Local Time Brewing, 300 S. Main St., Ste. 204
- Oak Village Academy Holly Springs, 160 Solaris Ln.
- Pet Mania, Sunset Lake Road
- Prana Yoga, 300 S. Main St., Suite 116 in Block on Main
- Sunrise United Methodist Church, 5420 Sunset Lake Road
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SupaBowlz Cafe, 150 W Holly Springs Road
- The Block on Main, Corner of Main Street and Rogers Street
- Triangle Wine Company, 4204 Lassiter Road
- Wake FC, Ting Park
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Thank you, again, to our dedicated volunteers and generous community for making everything we do possible.
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