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Fork and Spade: A community food digest for March
Eva Fierst reaches for a crate of food in January from Sara Schieffelin, asa the Grow Food Northampton volunteers load a van at the Northampton Survival center to deliver to Meadowbrook. Gazette file photo
Published: 3/11/2021 3:28:18 PM
With the sap rising and temperatures warming and perhaps the real end of the pandemic in sight energy is gathering everywhere. So many community organizations have exciting events and programs planned this month to help turn that energy into sustained community change that your Fork and Spade moderator won’t waste a lot of time with an introduction today. Read on to be energized!
Area volunteer opportunities
MICKY BEDELL Forbes Library outreach volunteer Frank Heston delivers books to Nan Lanning at the Rockridge Retirement Community in Northampton. Micky Bedell
Published: 3/24/2017 6:33:34 PM RSVP Volunteers Retired with some time on your hands? Lend a hand to local non-profits a few hours each week. Whether it is driving seniors to appointments or delivering meals on wheels, your neighbors need you. RSVP offers a variety of long-term and short-term volunteer opportunities in Hampshire and Franklin Counties. Share your time, skills and experience to benefit others. Contact Pat Sicard, 413-387-4558 or psicard@hampshirecog.org to get started. tax-aide volunteers
A different kind of single; music will benefit community
Revenues from the first release on SpiritHouse Music’s Aside Bside Records, Chris Marlon Jennings’ “Something Better,” will benefit the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. IMAGE COURTESY OF SPIRITHOUSE MUSIC
Danny Bernini, left, and Paul McNamara of SpiritHouse Music say their new venture is designed to offer great music and help chartiable and social causes. IMAGE COURTESY OF SPIRITHOUSE MUSIC
Danny Bernini, left, and Paul McNamara of SpiritHouse Music, seen here in their old Northampton studio, say Aside Bside Records is designed to offer great music and help charitable and social causes. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 1/12/2021 7:51:08 PM
NORTHAMPTON Since the start of the pandemic, the Community Food Distribution Project has delivered 27,000 packages of food, according to Alisa Klein, the executive director of Grow Food Northampton, which runs the program with the Northampton Survival Center.
On Tuesday, participants at the Lumber Yard and Florence Heights apartments received an extra container with their regular bundle of food: a warm meal of meatloaf, garlic green beans, and smoked gouda mac and cheese cooked by Jake’s on King Street.
It was the first day of a new initiative launched by Grow Food Northampton and the Downtown Northampton Association. The organizations are providing meals made by local restaurants to people who are food-insecure.