Farm to Food Pantry

Many of West Virginia’s food pantries lack the resources and cold storage capacity to offer patrons fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables—causing them to rely on shelf-stable, prepackaged foods that can be of lower nutritional quality and value.

Funded by a generous grant from the Walmart Foundation, the Farm-to-Food Pantry program provides cold storage units to two pantries in 10 counties: Barbour, Boone, Cabell, Greenbrier, Lincoln, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Roane and Upshur. This will increase the pantries’ ability to provide fresh food to patrons. Family Nutrition Program also helps pantries develop plans to increase the nutritional value of the foods they offer and promotes increased use of these foods among patrons by providing recipe demonstrations, taste tests and nutrition education programs.

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