With our food purchasing costs up and overall food donations down, we can’t stress enough how vitally important these donations are to our work and the neighbors we serve across 16 counties, including the Qualla Boundary.
We’d like to thank our top food donors—who donated more than 10,000 lbs. of product—between July and December 2022:
- Apple Wedge Packers & Cider
- Chiquita
- Community food drives (includes walk-ins, business, and corporate drives)
- Conagra Brands
- Flavor 1st Growers and Packers, LLC
- Foggy Bottom Orchards
- FritoLay
- General Mills
- Harrah’s Cherokee Hotel and Casino Resort
- Ingles Markets (including Ingles Day at Mountain State Fair)
- The Kraft Heinz Company
- Kreher Family Farms
- Legacy Farms
- Lipman Family Farms
- Milkco Inc.
- Paul Collins Produce Co.
- PetSmart Charities
- P&G Southeast MC
- Quality First Produce, Inc.
- Refresco
- Society of St. Andrew
- Vita Coco
