Looking for a creative Christmas gift?  How about donating food in honor of your recipient?    Project Feed the Thousands and the Vermont Food Bank are two great organizations you can donate either money or food to this Christmas season.   This donation location is at the new and fabulous Brattleboro CoOp located on the corner of Main and Canal streets in Brattleboro. 

Looking for creative Christmas gift idea?  Here’s a stocking stuffer for the person who has everything.  Skip the Charlie Brown tie or paisley pashmina and give the gift of a food donation in honor of your hard-to-shop-for friend or family member.  They’ll be happy (and surprised) to know that your gift to them is helping the 1 in 5 children in Vermont who experience hunger on a regular basis.  It’s hard to believe that hunger is a daily reality for so many Vermonters but according to Hunger Free Vermont, 13% of all VT households are food insecure with 85,000 Vermonters unable to afford enough nutritious food.

In Brattleboro, you can find several locations and agencies taking food donations during the holidays.  Perhaps the easiest way to donate is to visit any grocery store (like the Brattleboro CoOp shown above) where you’ll find donation baskets at the front of the store.   If you don’t want to leave Vernon, stop by our offices at Vermont Woods Studios and drop off your food donation here.  We’ll be taking all donations to the Brattleboro Food CoOp on Friday, December 21.

Not in Brattleboro or Vernon, VT?  Elsewhere in VT you can find out who’s taking food donations on the Vermont FoodBank website with this nifty Food Shelf Locator.  And Feeding America has a zip code locator on their website to help you find locations all across the country that are accepting food donations.  Merry Christmas!  Let’s hope no one in our communities has to go hungry this holiday season.

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