Gloucester’s Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department recently donated $400 of proceeds from its 2020 Christmas and Holiday Parade, “Hometown Holiday” Mini-Virtual Edition to the Bread for Life Community Food Pantry located in Gloucester Court House. The pandemic forced this year’s Read More
The Gloucester Sheriff’s Department held a food drive this month to support all of the local food pantries. Organized by the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank, this annual event has helped hundreds of families fight off food insecurity. Thanks to the Gloucester Read More
Ware Academy students participated in a reverse Advent calendar this holiday season. They were tasked with bringing specific items each day, resulting in a donation of 3,155 pounds of food to the Bread for Life food pantry. Making the delivery Read More
We had our Turkey Distribution today at Woodville Park. We had wonderful weather and no major back-ups. Since it was so dry we were able to park the Food Lion Semi, yes Semi! in the gravel parking lot on Read More
Thanks to the generosity of the Yorktown Rotary, Bread for Life got a new wrap for the truck and a commercial stand-up freezer.
After a few months of “drive thru” food distribution, we are finally back in the food pantry with a good assortment of fresh produce, a great variety of meat, milk and dairy products. Although it is difficult to keep fresh Read More
After several months waiting for the DMV to send the new license plates, we were able to go up to Maryland to get our new to us truck. It’s a little bit longer, and much quieter than the old truck. Read More
We are not serving as many clients as we had expected, and the number of volunteers is significantly lower than before the pandemic. However, we are still enjoying each others company. With all the new measures that we have put Read More
Several volunteers from BFL picked corn provided by one of our local farmers, Ray Rilee. Although it was a pretty hot day, we managed to pick about 1,000 lbs of delicious sweet corn. We will be distributing it next week Read More