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To Art, a retired plastic mold injection specialist, our Solon Springs Mobile Pantry is more than a place to pick up food—it’s a way to support the people he loves. Each month, Art delivers food from our mobile pantry to family and friends, bringing nourishment, connection, and hope along with it. 

“This program not only provides food for my wife and me, but it also brings community to my friends and helps my sister as she looks for another job,” Art shares. “Second Harvest’s mobile pantry helps all of us in different ways.”

For Art and his wife, access to our mobile pantry means greater stability when it comes to expenses like their gas bill. For others, it offers friendship and encouragement. For Art’s sister, it provides the energy to keep moving forward. 

When you give, you do more than provide food—you help strengthen and care for our Northland neighbors. 

Our impact is attributable to the 100+ agency and community partners (food shelves, on-site meal programs, and tribal organizations) and countless volunteers who make our hunger-relief work possible throughout our 15-county region. 

In Palisade, one of the rural Minnesota communities we support, we operate our Mobile Food Pantry Program in partnership with volunteers who help us provide food to local families, children, and seniors monthly. In addition, we supply partner Palisade Food Shelf with our nationally and regionally donated food to support their own monthly distribution.“Our neighbors really appreciate our support,” shares Barb, who grew up in Palisade and helped start the food shelf. “We’ve seen people in tears. They have even called us their family.” 

Just miles away in Aitkin, we deliver fresh and nutritious food to the Community Food Shelf at First Lutheran, one of the other 70 food shelf partners we support in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.“We couldn’t do our work without Second Harvest,” shares Pat and Judy who manage the food shelf and enjoy giving back to their community. “Our partnership is so beneficial. The amount of food we get at no cost helps us feed even more people in our community.”