The Iowa State Extension Office in Marshall County has been growing and giving away food for a long time.  Chelsea Llewellyn, Program Coordinator with the ISU Extension Office, shares that the produce grown in their gardens was previously used for a youth program.

Llewellyn says that tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchinis all need to be picked more than once a week.  With that program, a lot of the produce would go to waste.  Then 2020 came around and Llewellyn decided to try something out.

From there they built a ‘Little Food Pantry’ at their office and set up many other locations across the county.  Learn more about the locations of all the pantries at extension.iastate.edu/marshall

Zach Tomesch, News Director KFJB