Food Pantry

The sun shines on the tomatoes growing at O’Fallon Garden Club in O’Fallon, IL on Friday, September 20, 2024.

Metro East garden club earns award for most produce donated to a local food pantry

Will Bauer

This is the second year in a row the O’Fallon Garden Club earned the national honor for largest amount donated per capita.

Cedrick Hill, 62, left, gives a box of donated food to Tony Eiland, 67, both volunteers with City Hope Bible Church in Walnut Park East, as they load items onto a pickup truck on Monday, March 11, 2024, at Operation Food Search (OFS) in Overland. OFS is in the middle of renovating its headquarters and warehouse to accommodate more storage at its facilities.

Economy & Business

Operation Food Search will invest $10 million into its St. Louis County headquarters

Eric Schmid

The investment includes more space to store shelf-stable and perishable food as well as a new teaching kitchen and other programming for members of the regional community.

Jose Alfredo Rosas Luly, 38, works on sorting and packaging peaches on Thursday, July 13, 2023, at Flamm Orchards in Cobden, Ill.

Economy & Business

A USDA program gives food that stores won’t sell a second chance

Peter Medlin

Over 100 billion pounds of food goes to waste every year in America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm to Food Bank is trying to cut down on that waste by connecting local farmers and food pantries, but it’s future depends on how much funding is included for the program in the next farm bill.

Volunteers sort donations of household items at Feed My People. The nonprofit operates food pantries and thrift stores in the St. Louis region.

Economy & Business

St. Louis nonprofit will use $250,000 grant to feed more people

Jeremy D. Goodwin

Feed My People will expand its services in St. Louis County and Jefferson County with help from a $250,000 grant. The Economic Development Corporation of Jefferson County awarded the money from federal COVID-19 relief funds.

Feed My People volunteer Kay Thompson bags a food donation at the south St. Louis county location in May 2020.

Coronavirus

St. Louis-Area Food Banks Expect Surge As Missouri Ends Federal Unemployment Benefits

Kayla Drake

St. Louis-area food pantries are busy stocking shelves for this summer now that Missourians are receiving smaller unemployment checks.