Blog : Food Bank of Delaware

September 2, 2020

Amazon, Food Bank delivery provide lifeline to caregiver, elderly dad

Cecilia never expected to need assistance, but she’s had to reach out for help. Now a resident of the Bear area of New Castle County, she left New Jersey and…

August 28, 2020

Growing Community From Seed

Today we feature a guest blog from Tess Beardell, the Local Farm Intern at West Side Grows Together. West Side Grows Together participated in this year’s Harvest 2020 campaign, a…

August 27, 2020

New partnership with Amazon: food delivery benefits most vulnerable

The Food Bank of Delaware distributes emergency food to Delaware residents through drive-thru Healthy Pantry Centers at both the Newark and Milford sites. But what if a client does not…

‘You don’t have to be uncomfortable to go to the Food Bank,’ client says

Ashley – not her real name—knows that she can rely on the Food Bank of Delaware, and not only for food. The Food Bank staff create a positive and safe…

August 18, 2020

Culinary students get a taste of kitchen life during ‘lab’ experience

Under the watchful eyes of Chefs Tish and Tim, small groups of students enrolled in the Food Bank of Delaware’s Culinary School in Milford and Newark practiced their knife skills…

August 17, 2020

Same message, different experiences in times of COVID

Since mid-March, the impact of COVID-19 has changed nearly everything, and the annual Migrating to the Kitchen Day at the Food Bank of Delaware’s Culinary School in Milford is no…

Summer backpacks provide nutritional lifeline for Delaware’s kids

Summer breaks from school are often romanticized as a carefree time for vacations and family fun. For thousands of Delaware students – and their families – that’s not the case,…

August 6, 2020

Young volunteers creative – and refreshing – ways to help

We value our volunteers at the Food Bank of Delaware, and in fact we like to say that volunteers are the heart and soul of our organization. While most of…

August 4, 2020

Gardening good for the mind, soul; growing veggies a form of therapy

It’s no myth: gardening not only yields fresh food and flowers, it also feeds the mind and soul. People’s Place II Clinical Director Dr. Joseph Zingaro explains why: “Gardening is…

Learning to adapt: Workforce training programs offered remotely

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic we all realized we’d have to figure out new ways of doing things that we’d done for years. While schools nationwide struggle to…