FBNN Mobile Harvest Visits Local VA

MARCH 21 UPDATE:

The Food Bank of Northern Nevada announced two new Mobile Harvest sites that are now added to the distribution calendar. 

The first addition is a walk-up site that is also a returning location for the program.  Mobile Harvest will begin distributing every month at Community Health Alliance on Wednesday, March 23.  The distribution will be from 1 – 2 pm at the Community Health Alliance location at 1055 S. Wells Avenue in Reno. 

The second site is also a walk-up site at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino beginning Wednesday, April 6 from 1 pm – 2 pm.  The distribution will be located in the front parking lot on the south side of the property and will occur each month.  Peppermill Resort Spa Casino team members will be volunteering to help facilitate the distribution. 

Mobile Harvest is a direct service program of the Food Bank of Northern Nevada that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to more than 7,500 neighbors each month in the community.

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Original Story:

The food bank of Northern Nevada travels all over the Truckee meadows, as well as rural Northern Nevada and eastern California for their Mobile Harvest program. Their program brings a refrigerated truck to deliver fresh fruit and vegetables through communities that need it most. They use free and reduced school lunch numbers to identify neighborhoods for distribution and families in need. Some days they have multiple trucks running different routes, at the same time. Those days they may see 400 to 450 people show up for help. 

"99% of people who come through here are very thankful and appreciative of what we do," says Mike Escobar with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.

Volunteers with the FBNN say the peak of service was around march, April and May of 2020, due to COVID-19 and job losses. Numbers have improved ever since, but with inflation and high gas prices, they are seeing an increase again.

For when and where to find their Mobile Harvest, you can visit https://fbnn.org/gethelp/programschedules/

Recipients will not need to answer questions upon arrival.