Get the entire family involved in giving this season with Reverse Advent Calendar Food Drive!

All across Northwest North Carolina, Second Harvest's partner network is caring for everyone who may need help-- including veterans.

In all the hustle and bustle, we know it’s important to you to give back during the holiday season and reflect on community.

Simple things you and your family can do... before noon.

The New Year is an opportunity to take stock of our lives and of our community. For many of us, we reflect on our habits — good and bad — and make decisions about the ways we want to challenge ourselves in next 12 months. Perhaps we will go to bed earlier, read more books, learn a new language or write more letters. Each personal resolution we make is to help us move more into ourselves; into being the person we know ourselves to be. We can also make community resolutions. W

Every year, we gather for an evening to celebrate our volunteers who give so much to us, so frequently. Second Harvest volunteers engage with our mission in a variety of ways, but the focal point of our volunteers is to make sure that the food we are rescuing or having donated to us is safe and fit to be sent out. This means that our volunteers spend hours inspecting food packaging, labels, and expiration dates and carefully packaging it to be sent out to our partners across

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Nor thousands upon thousands of pounds of food. The 26th Annual Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger drive is just around the corner. Mark your calendars for May 12th! Since 1993, the National Association of Letter Carriers has collected food the second Saturday in May from their customer’s mailboxes and used their person-power and truck-power to get it to

“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve,” said Martin Luther King. At Second Harvest, we get to spend time with some pretty great people… thousands of them, in fact. They are our volunteers. They sort food, inspect eggs, assist with food drives, pack boxes, and give tirelessly and kindly to support our mission. April is National Volunteer Month and it is a great reminder that much of the work that makes our communities stronger and better happens because of people

Second Harvest is fortunate to have many dedicated volunteers that support our mission of moving healthy, nutritious food to the 18 counties of Northwest North Carolina that we serve. Even amongst all these outstanding volunteers, the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices volunteer group really stands out. Berkshire Hathaway has demonstrated their commitment to Second Harvest by participating in our work every step of the way, from collecting food at food drives to helping us sort

I’ve been a part of Second Harvest’s Empty Bowls fundraiser in one way or another for the past seven years. First as a guest, then as a volunteer, then a planning committee member and now volunteer chair. My initial involvement came because a friend invited me along, and who doesn’t love a good cause and some pretty pottery as a bonus? But I got so much more from that first Empty Bowls event – I not only learned about a real need in our community to help people who are food i

Lace up your running shoes! Second Harvest has a growing list of foot races that benefit our work, and we don’t see these only as fundraisers. We see these races as important events to make the connection that hunger is a health issue, just like exercise and physical activity. “We know that heart disease, obesity and diabetes are more prevalent in communities with low food security and fundraisers like these runs help Second Harvest and our partner network focus on bringing t

Nikki Miller-Ka is a professional food blogger and food critic based in Winston-Salem. She writes and bites about local and regional restaurant trends, food organizations, food producers and everything culinary on her blog, Nik Snacks (niksnacksonline.com) and her bimonthly Casual Dining column in the Greensboro News & Record. She also is a big fan of Second Harvest’s Empty Bowls, where she can be found volunteering every year. She wrote this blog post of us about her commitm

Volunteers power Second Harvest Food Bank. It’s as simple as that. We could not help provide food and resources to the one in four people in our community who face hunger without the help of volunteers. Take an active role in the fight to end hunger in Northwest North Carolina and join Second Harvest Food Bank and the Feeding America network by pledging to volunteer. When you give your time to Second Harvest, you get back something amazing in return, maybe even life-changing

133 billion pounds of food is wasted every year, yet 42 million Americans do not get enough nutritious food to eat to lead healthy, productive lives. It was those contrasting realities that led to an innovation dubbed “Food Banking”—the creation of non-profit regional warehouse operations prepared to solicit, inventory, inspect, store and distribute food to other non-profit agencies feeding their communities. Northwest North Carolina is an agricultural region, with farmers gr

Nearly 40% of the food grown in the United States every year is wasted. That’s a lot of food being thrown into landfills, creating methane gas and other environmental hazards. Furthermore, that’s a lot of perfectly good food that many families right here in Northwest North Carolina could use. At the same time that all this food is being wasted, recent studies show that hunger in Northwest North Carolina remains persistently high. This is especially true for families who live

This past week we celebrated our volunteers at Second Harvest’s Annual Volunteer Dinner. And it got us thinking about everything volunteers do to feed community with us. We get a lot done at Second Harvest. You all know this because you see it: our facilities are busy. Forklifts zip around, pallets of food get lifted onto trucks, vegetables go in and out of the coolers. This past year alone we distributed nearly 36 million pounds of food. And we couldn’t do it without our vol

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It is early April and Ellen Kirby is standing in a field of rye and vetch surveying the land. It is a cold spring afternoon and a steady wind is blowing, creating ripples in the cover crops. Ellen and fellow volunteer Patsy Dwiggins are thrilled that the rye and vetch have taken. These cover crops will be plowed under in the next week or so, adding vital nutrients to the soil. For almost 20 years, these three large fields behind Crossnore School near downtown Winston-Salem ha