Food Security

Food Bank - People living in poverty and in need of food are welcome on Tuesdays between 11am and 1pm to pick up a bag of healthy groceries. Donations of food can be dropped off on Monday mornings 10:30 – 1:30 pm.

Soup Social – every Monday, Tuesday and Friday we offer a warm lunch from 11AM – 1 PM in the PHC dining room. Everyone welcome!

Coffee & Cards – every Wednesday and Thursday from 2-4 pm during the colder seasons, drop by PHC for a game of Crib, Chess, Checkers, or other card games and enjoy a coffee, tea and a light snack

 

Community Gardens – at PHC we have four beautiful gardens, for details click here for garden information.

• A Food Bank garden that supplements our Food Bank with 4 months of healthy, organic , fresh produce
• A Dragon Garden – a place for seniors to socialize, grow food and enjoy some exercise
• A Kids Garden – where children learn the benefits of growing healthy food for themselves and donating some to the Food Bank
• A Client Education Garden ~ Maegen's Garden – a certificate program for up to 12 participants per year where they learn how to plan, build, plant, nurture and harvest their own organic food using The Square Foot Gardening technique.

  

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright ~ Benjamin Franklin