Happy Birthday Food Independence!!!
Wow!!! It’s hard to believe Food Independence Food Pantry celebrates its third birthday in July after a successful 36th monthly food distribution in June. We were conceived in March 2020,[…]
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Annual meeting and Auction October 16 at the Fries Theatre, in Fries VA
We look forward to seeing everyone-please invite your friends and neighbors-to the Harvest Moon Dinner, Auction and annual meeting! We are happy to showcase the Historic Fries Theater at 316[…]
SNAP returns to pre-Covid payment levels: Impact on Food Independence and our Clients
We planned to discuss how we source about 12,000 lbs of food for over 300 households each month, our “new norm”. Instead, we want to provide a local perspective on[…]
Food Independence: A look back at 2022 and what it may mean for 2023
2022 was quite a year in the food assistance business. High inflation rates, especially for food and fuel, were hard on all but hardest on lower and/or fixed income households.[…]
Detailed directions to Auction location-Cox’s Chapel Community Center
From the light in downtown Independence. Continue west on HWY 58 for 2.5 miles turn LEFT onto Battlefield drive, immediately past Rixey’s Market. Continue on Battlefield for 3.4 miles. Turn[…]
Good times can be hard times, but they are still good times!
We are certainly experiencing good times at Food Independence. We just learned we got a $25,000 grant from Twin County Community Foundation to start a project that better links local[…]
GLC Auction: What is your special talent?
If you only attend one Grayson LandCare meeting this year, this is the one you don’t want to miss! In October, we have our Annual Meeting (voting on Board Members[…]
Food Independence, A Healthy Two-Year-Old
Food Independence turned two in July! We were adopted in June 2020 when GLC accepted us as an affiliated program and were conceived in March 2020 in a fairly routine[…]