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More than 700 participate in first ‘Farm to Fork Ride or Run’ for Extra Table The 32-mile bike ride at the inaugural "Farm to Fork Ride or Run" begins Saturday. (Source: WDAM) By Charles Herrington | May 8, 2021 at 5:59 PM CDT - Updated May 8 at 6:00 PM LAMAR COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - Hundreds of people turned out Saturday morning to raise money to help feed hungry people in Mississippi. More than 400 cyclists and more than 300 runners gathered in Lamar County at the Barn at Bridl...

By Marshall Ramsey Apr 14, 2021 12:00 PM In this episode of Mississippi Stories, restauranteur and author Robert St. John sits down with Mississippi Today Editor-At-Large Marshall Ramsey to discuss St. John’s long career in the restaurant business. With the COVID-19 pandemic hitting local independent restaurants particularly hard, St. John shares how it has affected both his businesses and his charity Extra Table (which won a 2021 GIVE Award for its efforts to feed food-challenged Mis...

Four weeks of food collection came to an end in Gulfport today as everyone involved with the March of the Mayors boxed food ready for distribution.

Extra Table hosts inaugural March of the Mayors food drive Extra Table hosts inaugural March of Mayors food drive By Jasmine Lotts | March 12, 2021 at 8:20 PM CST - Updated March 12 at 9:41 PM GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - More than 40 tons of food made its way to pantries from Extra Table’s “March of the Mayor” event. The inaugural effort challenged 10 cities, along the Gulf Coast to collect food donations to those in need. For the past month, cities have been donating food items and on ...

The Gulfport School District collected over two tons of peanut butter for the March of the Mayors Food Drive.

Kathy Clem, executive director of The Good Samaritan Center with its main office in Jackson and a branch is Laurel, is a hard person to track down at times. One day she might be at the nonprofit social service agencys soup kitchen in Jones County, supervising a “grab-n-go” meal program for Laurel and other area communities; another she might be having a motivational meeting with her 50+-member staff, and another she may be meeting with collaborators on their newest program, HUB For The Hun...

DONATE NOW: March of the Mayors Food Drive targets 8 coast cities DONATE NOW: March of the Mayors Food Drive By WLOX Staff | February 18, 2021 at 5:48 PM CST - Updated February 18 at 5:48 PM SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - Extra Table is partnering with coast mayors to collect food and help restock food pantries. But they’re going about it in a very specific way to gather some of the most commonly used items. Each city is collecting one item, for instance Waveland is taking donations of rice,...

SHARE Ryan Bradley, executive director of Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United, helps deliver 36,000 meals of local shrimp to food banks across Mississippi. Dawn Ross photo Early this year, Mississippi food pantries received deliveries of locally caught, processed and packaged shrimp, harvested by members of Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United. A $50,000 Catch Together grant facilitated by the nonprofit Extra Table helped Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United purchase 20,000 pounds of...

Even amid this pandemic, Extra Table continues to provide meals to thousands of families in need.

We’re all in the same boat together, just one reason local fishermen, the nonprofit Extra Table, and others have jumped on board with the newly launched Catch Together program. A special delivery at food banks throughout South Mississippi, 13,000 pounds of shrimp caught by local fishermen that will ultimately provide 36,000 meals for those in […]