Nine Tons Of Free Food Distributed To North Escambia Residents

March 1, 2013

About 18,000 pounds of free food were distributed to hundreds of North Escambia residents Thursday afternoon.

The Florida Department of Children and Families, AmeriCorps and Farm Share hosted  the free food distribution for residents of the town of  Century and  North Escambia area residents at at the old Carver Middle School.

The nine tons of food and dairy products included potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, pepper, squash, milk, yogurt, cereal and water. An estimated 300 families were served, with over 200 families signed up during the first hour of the event.

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The food was distributed with the help of Americorp and volunteers from the Carver Community Center in Century.

Farm Share is a Florida non-profit organization working to alleviate hunger and malnutrition by recovering fresh and nutritious food and distributing it to those who need it most. The group specializes in obtaining donated fresh fruits and vegetables from Florida’s farmers and putting the food into the hands of the of low-income families in need of nutritious food. Every year, Farm Share provides more than 15 million pounds of nutritious food to more than 600,000 low-income households across Florida.

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One Response to “Nine Tons Of Free Food Distributed To North Escambia Residents”

  1. Century on March 1st, 2013 1:51 am

    I would like to thank you william for letting us know about the food share. It sure helps out these days.

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