Cupboard Responds to Increased Demand for Student Bags | |
In the first two months of 2024 alone, the Cupboard has provided 86% more student bags to clients than we did in the same timeframe last year.
Student bags include food items that children can immediately eat or prepare themselves. They are given to clients with children in school as a supplement to the client's monthly food distribution.
The Cupboard is always grateful for donations, including those intended specifically for student bags.
Always-needed items include individual microwave popcorn servings, small packs of raisins, juice boxes, mac 'n cheese cups (not boxed), granola bars, and small pop-top cans of meat (think Vienna sausages, etc).
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2024 Plant Sale Attracts Crowd, Raises Funding to Benefit Garden | |
Last month's annual plant sale was a resounding success! Thank you so much to everyone who shopped and volunteered at the sale. The annual event raises funding that goes back into the Cupboard garden, where produce for clients is grown and harvested. | |
Around the Cupboard Last Month | |
Many thanks to Alex, who was given cash by his grandparents to pass along to the charity of his choice… and he chose the Food Cupboard! Thank you! | |
Thank you, Victoria and Adam, for dropping off a pile of Girl Scout cookies for Food Cupboard clients last week. Did we ever see some smiles!
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Anthony from F3 Nation and his son stopped by and replaced the threshold for our dock door that had been giving our volunteers some trouble. We appreciate you so much! | |
A great big high-five to the Paone family, who started off their spring break with a donation of some of the most needed items on our list! | |
Many thanks to Flytrex and Food Lion Main Street for donating reusable shopping bags. The Cupboard packs these bags full of child-friendly foods for student bags, which are given to clients with school-age children. | | |
In addition to enjoying a free tasting of this strawberry salad at distribution last month, Cupboard clients also received the recipe, the key ingredients, and a measuring spoon from the NC State SNAP-Ed Steps to Health program. Sweet and nutritional! | | |
The Cupboard's garden shed needed some TLC. Up stepped the F3 men’s group who worked on the shed and put in four concrete footings. The team plans to return soon and replace some of the old floor joists. Thank you! | |
Check out this beautiful dwarf apple tree in full bloom. Each cluster could produce up to five apples, but Cupboard volunteers plan to thin them out to get larger apples. This is the fourth year for these apple trees in our garden. They went in as 4- to 5-foot whips in January 2021 and have been aggressively pruned annually. | |
This group of moms and daughters from the National Charity League-Lily Chapter (Cary) gave the garden a big assist at our annual plant sale. They worked the big surge of plant buyers who eagerly browsed our huge display of perennials and vegetable transplants. | | |
It’s been a great spring for the radish crop in the Food Cupboard garden. Volunteers are harvesting three times weekly! These beautiful radishes are crisp, crunchy, and with just the right amount of zip in each bite. We encourage our clients to rinse, add a dash of salt, and enjoy! | | |
Getting Help & Helping Out | |
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 | |
The Cupboard can receive donated food on:
- Preferred hours: Mondays 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Also: Thursdays noon-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., Apes
- Local Time Brewing, 300 S. Main St., Ste. 204
- Oak Village Academy Holly Springs, 160 Solaris Ln.
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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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