Food Pantries

Discover ways to support dignified shopping strategies, reduce food waste, and increase access to more nutritious food through client-choice pantry structures and garden to panty partnerships.

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Food Pantries

Food pantries are vital community hubs, connecting people with food, essential items, and supportive services.

This webpage features two practical guides designed to help pantry staff and volunteers increase access to nutritious foods that guests want and will use.

One guide focuses on client-choice pantry models, which empowers guests to choose their own food with dignity.

The other explores garden to pantry partnerships, connecting local growers with pantries to increase access to fresh produce.

Both guides offer real-world examples, planning tools, and step-by-step strategies to support changes that fit a pantry's space, capacity, and community needs.

Client Choice Food Pantries

Learn how food pantry community champions can use the client choice model to connect clients and their families with the foods they enjoy.

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Garden to Food Pantry Partnerships

Food pantry community champions can increase the availability of fresh produce by partnering with community donation gardens.

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