Orangevale Food Bank

Come on out this Friday night and enjoy a spring evening to help us get the Food Bank Community Garden planted. We have jobs for all ages, so bring the whole family. We’ll be working from 5pm to 8pm with breaks to enjoy yummy pizza along the way. We’ll be moving dirt, spreading bark, and planting vegetable plants in our new raised bed gardens. The harvest from the community garden will be distributed to hungry Orangevale families. What better way to start the weekend!

Where?

Orangevale Food Bank
6483 Main Ave, Orangevale

When?

Friday, May 4th from 5pm – 8pm

Who can come?

Anyone! Bring your friends and family. Register here if you’re planning to join us.

What to bring?

Shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, gloves, etc.

Projects

1.       Filling and Planting 3-  raised garden beds

2.       Mulching the future food production area.

3.       Finish/ Plant the Winter Squash Hills

4.      Misc Projects:  *Construct Tomato Cages * Spread Mulch 

Today we broke ground on the new food bank community garden with many volunteers serving from Disciples Church. Along with several of our food bank regular volunteers, we we’re able to use some of the proceeds from April’s spaghetti dinner fundraiser to kick off this important project. This garden will happen in several phases with the ultimate goal of creating community and opportunities to serve as well as providing nutritious fresh vegetables for families in Orangevale. We also plan to teach people how to grow food in a garden at home. This is going to be a community effort and more volunteers will be greatly appreciated to tend to the garden as we get closer to growing and harvesting seasons. We expect to have our first harvest this summer! If you have not already connected with us on Facebook, do so today to get the latest updates and photos of the community garden.

We had a great time Saturday night at our first annual community spaghetti dinner fundraiser for Orangevale Food Bank. Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming support at a sold out event. Thank you to the Orangevale Grange, youth group from Redeemer Covenant Church, and the Orangevale View. Thank you to the generous sponsors – Wells Fargo, Golden State Collision Center, and UPS Store. The event raised over $4,000 to help improve and increase our programs offered to help hungry families in Orangevale. We look forward to doing it again next year, but even bigger!

Thank you again to the 2012 event sponsors:

Thank you to the Casa Roble High School ROTC for all the hard work in putting on today’s 5K Fun Run. And we’re excited to see the results of this month’s Adopt-A-Month competition between the high school classes – we hope you collect TONS of food for hungry Orangevale families.