A record number of Marylanders have been accessing our statewide food assistance safety net since the pandemic emerged, many for the first time. In this blog, two of our long-standing partners discuss the stigma surrounding food assistance and share how they help hungry Marylanders overcome it.
Learn more about we’ve adapted our programs to feed Maryland safely throughout the pandemic and hear from hungry Marylanders as they experience food assistance for the first time in their lives.
To hungry Marylanders living in southwest Baltimore, longtime Maryland Food Bank partner Paul’s Place is a beacon of hope in a challenging world.
MFB presents a new tool in the fight to provide universal access to healthy food for low-income, food-insecure families: Back Up Boxes 2.0. These updated versions of the Back Up Box launched at the start of the pandemic contain 30 pounds of nutritious, high quality foods for households enduring the long-term economic consequences of COVID-19.
Farm to Food Bank coordinator Amy Cawley catches readers up on what has been an extremely busy fall season so far on Maryland’s Farms. She has been criss-crossing the state pairing gleaning volunteers with Farm to Food Bank partner farms, appearing on an agriculture podcast and doing everything she can to make sure that hungry Marylanders have year-round access to fresh and nutritious local produce.
