Food Bank
Every Friday morning, Grayslist coordinates a food delivery to the community room for all residents of Grays Landing. A volunteer driver brings back about thirty boxes of high-quality groceries from the Oregon Food Bank using a shared list of resident names and birthdays.
Because each name can only be used once a month at the drive-through food bank, we rotate through 75 names to satisfy the policy and keep free groceries flowing to the building every week. Residents gather to unload, organize, and share what has been brought, filling the tables with fresh produce, bread, and pantry goods that remain available through the weekend.
We invite everyone to come down around 10:00 a.m. on Fridays to help. Those who lend a hand get the first pick of groceries, in the spirit of our saying, “The baker tastes the bread warm.” meet us in the basement to get first choice!
Through this shared effort, Grayslist turns a weekly delivery into a moment of care, abundance, and connection that keeps the whole community nourished in both body and spirit.
We get some very interesting ingredients in our haul, below are recipes for the trickier items we get regularily, canned pumpkin, giant radishes, giant fennel
Other Free Food Programs
Every Wednesday from 12:00-2:00 The Grays Landing Food Pantry is open, Troy Linden, REACH Resident Service Coordinator, organizes this seperate operation. Signup starts on tuesday in the community room, put your name on the list to be drawn at random starting Wednesday at noon. Gather in the community room and wait for your name to be called.
LiftUP delivers food boxes to front doors on the 1st tuesday of every month, there is room for 15 individuals in this program, speak to Troy Linden to get on the waiting list.
