Food Bank pantry partner MESA demonstrates what it means to be a community food hub If you’ve ever spent time in Madison County, you’ve heard about the flood. In 1995, a thunderstorm stalled in the mountains and released a deluge on the rolling hills and farmland below. Flash flooding claimed three lives, and many more lost everything they had to the storm. Crisis is [...]

“It’ll take a lifetime to give back all that was given to me,” Sally Latimer said at the start of another busy day at the Monacan Indian Nation Food Bank in Amherst, which works with the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Sally and her team of four were preparing for a contactless distribution, serving [...]