For more than a decade, Willing Hands has been delivering fresh produce from local farms to West Fairlee on Tuesday mornings. And for most of that time, Pamela Mainville has been leading the effort to connect local families in need with the available resources of the Upper Valley. A retired chef from the Mountain School […]
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NORWICH, VT — Willing Hands has been awarded a $20,470 grant through the Vermont Farm to School Grant Program to increase access to fresh, locally grown food for children attending 12 early childhood education (ECE) programs in Orange and Windsor counties. The funding will enable Willing Hands to purchase Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares from
Bob started volunteering with the Thetford Food Shelf in 2018. “It’s something I can do to help my community,” he says. “It doesn’t take any special skills, really, just the commitment to showing up.” The town hall-based service began in 1984 as the emergency food shelf. In 2004, it had outgrown the two shelves upstairs
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The Community Food Market at the Upper Valley Haven in White River operates Monday-Thursday from 10 am to 4:30 pm and Fridays from 10 am to 3 pm, and carries a wide array of fresh and packaged food, produce, and personal hygiene products for community members in need, all free of charge. On a typical
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By Susan Warner Friday morning, closing in on 11 a.m., and the volunteers at Baby Steps Family Assistance community food shelf in Claremont gather around executive director Robin Wittemann. She gives them quick instructions on what’s to come: how to sort and shelve today’s incoming delivery of nutritious food from Willing Hands. Right on time,
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