Through our network partners, and through direct distribution, the Vermont Foodbank provides 153,000 Vermonters, including 33,900 children, with the nutrition they need to survive and thrive. One often overlooked facet of the Vermont Foodbank’s work is our focus on procuring a wide variety of healthful foods, including foods that take into consideration the food allergies [...]
This is a guest blog post from Deb Krempecke, Manager of Lamoille Community Food Share, which is a Vermont Foodbank network partner. They recently received a grant from the Vermont Foodbank to purchase a new refrigerator and we asked them to tell us about the impact this would have on their community. Lamoille Community Food [...]
Donation is part of $107,000 raised to fight hunger in Vermont Hannaford Supermarkets donated approximately $5,000 in food to the Vermont Foodbank on March 13th as part of a hunger-relief campaign that produced more than $1 million in product and cash donations across five Northeast states, including $107,000 in Vermont. Hannaford Helps Fight Hunger took [...]
March is National Nutrition Month and we’re posting a series of blogs that focus on nutrition within our networks. You can also learn about our programs here. This is a guest post from Sally Metro with the Williston Community Food Shelf. We are the Williston Community Food Shelf. A year ago we started a program [...]
March is National Nutrition Month and we’re posting a series of blogs that focus on nutrition within our networks. You can also learn about our programs here. This is a guest post from Deb Krempecke, Manager of the Lamoille Community Food Share in Morrisville, VT. The goal of food shelves has always been to be [...]
Representatives from Long Trail Brewing Company, Farrell Distributing, and Hannaford Supermarkets visited the Vermont Foodbank with a check for $7,257, monies raised from a recent promotion in Hannaford stores throughout New England. This summer, Long Trail Brewing Company donated $1 for every case of Long Trail sold at Hannaford Supermarkets. In Vermont, Farrell matched Long [...]
