Today is Giving Tuesday and we're launching our Stock The Stocking campaign! From November 27th to December 17th were asking our community to help fight child hunger by filling a stocking with easy to open items. The stockings go directly towards feeding children in our community and we could use your help! During the Christmas break food insecure kids will miss 20+ meals. You can help bridge that gap by stopping by one of the designated locations to pick up and drop off the stockings.

Locations

Santa Rosa Beach

*Santa Rosa Beach Pantry, 132 Market Street

Tuesday-Thursday 8:30AM-4PM

*Courtyard by Marriott Sandestin at Grand Blvd, 100 Grand Blvd

Monday-Friday 8:30AM-5PM

Destin

*Destin Pantry, 908 Airport Road

Tuesday & Wed 8:30AM-4:30PM

*Taylor Allen Properties, 1219 Airport Rd

Monday-Thursday 9AM-4PM 

9,000 packaged food items and 5,000 fresh food items to feed 600 families over the Thanksgiving holidays. It's a busy time of year for us, and we are so grateful for all of the support to make it all possible! 

A big thank you to our Thanksgiving sponsor Apex Disaster Specialists, to Grocery Outlet and Walmart for help with our holiday food orders, to Rent Gear Here for help with transportation, and to the dedicated volunteer teams from Howard Hospitality, Hilary and Reverie, Alys Beach and Escapology. We appreciate you all!

Allison Wickey gave our chalkboard a holiday makeover and it truly inspires us to embrace the holiday season! Don't forget to take your picture by it when you're here volunteering. Thank you, Allison!

We love partnering with the Sonder Project for a garden upgrade in Destin and planting for the winter. We have two gardens (one in Destin and the other on the Walton Academy Campus) and students in our kitchen program and volunteers help us to maintain these gardens. The vegetables we grow are used in the kitchen classes and support our seasonal programs. We're working to continue making our programs sustainable, and our gardens are helping to make this happen!