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Ozarks Food Harvest

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The only food bank serving southwest Missouri. 🍎

Join the movement to feed our neighbors by donating time, food, and funds. Located in Springfield, Missouri.

Ozarks Food Harvest is the only food bank serving southwest Missouri, providing more than 16.4 million meals to 270 pantries and programs reaching 261,000 people in 28 counties.

10/30/2026

We're taking a moment of appreciation for the folks at John Deere who make a huge difference for our Food Bank Farm. A garden takes a lot of work, especially one the size of our Food Bank Farm. Our garden requires year-round expertise, maintenance and care, and the John Deere employees who volunteer with us have been a big part of helping us grow produce for our neighbors facing hunger.

In the past 7 months, volunteers from John Deere have:
- Replaced ground cover in our high tunnels
- Planted cucumbers, potatoes, onions and peppers
- Installed shade cloth in both high tunnels to protect people and plants
- Sifted compost
- Packed harvested produce
- Painted labels on all 78 raised beds
- Cleaned out 4 high tunnel rows of tomatoes and cattle panels to prep for fall planting
- Harvested 2,605 pounds of fresh produce
- Volunteer a total of 136 hour over seven volunteer sessions

A huge thank you to the John Deere volunteers who've helped our garden end hunger in the Ozarks and educate kids and adults about local agriculture.

10/29/2026

We need your help for Turkey Trot! Did you know the event isn't just a 5K run/walk? It's also one of our biggest food drives of the year! Here are all the ways you can help:

🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Sign up to run or walk the 5K. Then, bring seven nonperishable food items for donation when you pick up your packet or on the morning of the race.

🥫 Volunteer with Ozarks Food Harvest's food drive. We still need a few more people to help us collect food donations on race day. Sign up for this opportunity at https://cerv.is/0396c29.

👋 Volunteer with the Springfield-Greene County Park Board to help the race run smoothly. The Park Board still needs volunteers to help hand out shirts and race packets at pre-registration, line monitors, and directional captains (directing traffic and answering questions at the front doors). To sign up for these opportunities, contact Trey Metzelthin at 417-874-2176 or [email protected].

Turkey Trot is Springfield's annual 5K run/walk on Thanksgiving morning, put on by the Springfield-Greene County Park Board. Learn more and register at parkboard.org/turkeytrot.

Springfield, southwest Missouri, 5k

10/29/2026

The dates you see on food packaging aren't actually the last day you can eat that food. Food banks like Ozarks Food Harvest use extension guidelines to determine how long you can store food past the date on the package.

Our staff and volunteers still check food for signs of spoilage and extremely out-of-date items, but knowing how long food can be stored past the date on the package helps reduce food waste and gets more food into the hands of people who need it.

Swipe through this post to learn more.

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10/28/2026

The new truck is here 🤩 Thanks to the Darden Restaurant, Inc. Foundation and Penske in partnership with Feeding America, we're adding this refrigerated truck to our fleet so we can deliver food safely across southwest Missouri and offer more Mobile Food Pantry distributions to underserved areas. It comes at the perfect time as our current vehicles are aging and maintenance for older trucks becomes costly.

Our president/CEO Bart Brown said it best: "The addition of this truck from Darden and Penske will help us serve more people in need where they are. We serve a third of the state of Missouri, and many people are not in Springfield. We need to bring food through Mobile Food Pantries to the folks that need it."

Thank you again to Darden and Penske for this amazing gift. The latest food insecurity rates are the highest they've been in a decade. This truck will be put to good use helping more of our neighbors access food during tough times.

10/26/2026

Hey, hunters, did you know you can donate your surplus venison to Missouri food banks and pantries to help feed our neighbors facing hunger? The program is called Share the Harvest, and it's through the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Just bring your deer to an approved meat processor and let the processor know how much meat you want to donate. You'll be helping provide important protein for a neighbor experiencing food insecurity.

Learn more and find an approved processor near you at https://mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/species/deer/share-harvest

10/21/2026

The results are in, and they are incredible. Our community helped raise $296,768 for the Weekend Backpack Program during Hunger Action Month this September! That will provide meals for 825 children in southwest Missouri every weekend of the school year!

We have so many people to thank:

🏦 Special thank you to Central Bank who was our presenting sponsor for Hunger Action Month and held fundraisers at their local branches.
🥫 Local businesses and organizations got involved by holding food drives, special promotions, and selling featured food items to raise food & funds for Ozarks Food Harvest.
📻 Zimmer radio listeners helped sponsor more than 700 local children in the Weekend Backpack Program during Hungerthon.
🍊 Businesses donated auction items for the Go Orange Auction, and bidders helped raise thousands of dollars for the Weekend Backpack Program.
🥣 Artists donated handmade bowls to our Empty Bowls fundraiser, sponsored by Holmes and Griffeth Financial Planners, and shoppers got to take home a feel-good keepsake knowing they helped feed kids across the Ozarks.

To everyone who donated, created, volunteered, raised meals, and spread the word... THANK YOU! Ending hunger takes all of us. Your support this September means families and kids across southwest Missouri will have the food they need and deserve to thrive.

10/15/2026

🎃 It's the spookiest of months, which means it's time to Scare Away Hunger! When you volunteer with us during October, you'll see this food collection bin in our volunteer check-in room 👀 We're challenging our volunteers to bring nonperishable food items for donation this month to help folks facing hunger access food as the weather turns colder.

We might be scaring away hunger, but it's not scary to sign up to volunteer. All you need to do is visit ozarksfoodharvest.org/volunteer and submit an application. After your application is approved, simply click "Schedule a Session" and choose the session that works for you! If you're a returning volunteer... well, you know what to do.

We hope to see you this October!

10/15/2026

💝 Hi, community. It's that time of year again when Ozarks Food Harvest starts preparing for the holiday season, and we need your help. We believe everyone deserves to celebrate the holidays with a comforting meal. But with food prices up 20% in recent years and fuel costs rising, we're seeing more folks worry about how they'll put food on the table on a normal week night, much less a holiday meal. We want to help southwest Missouri families put a holiday meal on the table.

This year we need to purchase 7,550 turkeys and hams, as well as sides like potatoes, vegetables, pie filling and more to help families facing hunger celebrate the season. Here's how your gift can help:

🦃 $20 provides a turkey or ham
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 $40 provides a holiday meal for a family
🎁 $80 provides a turkey and all the trimmings for two families
🍽️ $160 provides multiple meals to help our neighbors get through the season

It might seem early, but now is when The Food Bank needs to buy these special food items to get them to our neighbors in time for the holidays. In our community, 1 in 4 children and 1 in 5 adults face hunger. Let's help make the holidays a little more cheerful when times are tough.

You can make a gift now at ozarksfoodharvest.org/donate.

10/14/2026

Dillon is here to tell you that we're in need of volunteers for our weekday volunteer sessions, particularly in the afternoons.

Weekday afternoons are our least attended times as people head back to work or school. We need folks to help us keep donated food moving through The Food Bank and into the hands of our neighbors facing hunger.

By volunteering on the weekdays, you help us keep our neighbors safe by checking donated items for food safety guidelines.

Learn more and sign up at ozarksfoodharvest.org/volunteer. We truly couldn't do this work without you.

Springfield Missouri, southwest Missouri, SWMO

Address

2810 N Cedarbrook Avenue
Springfield, MO
65803

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	8am - 4:30pm
Thursday	8am - 4:30pm
Friday	8am - 3:30pm

Telephone

+14178653411

Website

https://ozarksfoodharvest.org/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=FB&utm_content=facebook

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