A Great Volunteer Opportunity

Our Neighbors Farm & Pantry serves our community through pantry distributions, outreach distributions, STEM education and growing nutrient dense produce for pantry clients. In 2020, we served 4,500 clients, feeding nearly 20,000 people within those households. Through outreach efforts, low income and senior apartments, San Carlos Apache Reservation and Greenlee County food pantries were served.

Our garden continued to grow food for pantry distribution, sold excess garden produce and produced 10 STEM education videos that were shown to elementary school classrooms in Safford and Thatcher.

We lost many senior volunteers because of their fear of contracting COVID and those volunteer numbers have not stabilized since.

We have had to turn down donated bread because we do not have volunteers to drive the pantry truck, nor do we have volunteers to load and unload tens of trays of bread. This means, our neighbors, that depend on ONF&P for bread, do not receive any. It is not just sliced bread that we receive from this donor, there are also pizza crusts, bagels, English muffins, flat bread and buns. We do feel horrible that we cannot support our neighbors in this way. We received a call last week from a senior at a low income apartment, asking when we would deliver again.

This is not the only volunteer position we have for the pantry, we need people to help on distribution days and we need help on grocery rescue days. The pantry is open Monday through Thursday, if you would like to volunteer in the pantry, please contact Kai Littrell, onfandp@gmail.com

We also need help in the garden every day of the week.