Post #3: 2021 Recap & Thank You
Left to Right: Elbert Bassham, Mary Lou Ramirez, Genevieve Bassham, and Betty Rivera prepare for December distribution.
This last year, Marfa Food Pantry served over 1665 packages of food. We had hoped to return to in-person shopping, but with the covid variants and risk of infection to the most vulnerable in our community, we continued distributing food through the car line system we developed in 2020. While the number of those in need seems to be trending down at times, the holiday distribution numbers exceeded that of 2020.
The Marfa Food Pantry Garden tripled in size this last year, increasing the amount of fresh, local, organic produce we are able to distribute. Through Big Bend Conservation Alliance, we joined up with Judd Foundation to create Marfa Harvest/Cosecha Marfa, providing local, organic produce once a week during summer harvest months. We look forward to seeing how this partnership continues to develop in 2022. More news from the garden in our next blog post. 🌱
❤️ These past couple of years have been challenging, and we hope to be a source of relief and care in these times. Please know that you can contact the pantry between food distributions if you or someone you know is in need of food. Call us at: (432) 295-1447
❤️ Marfa Food Pantry would like to thank our community volunteers for helping us this last year with the garden and/or with monthly food pantry distributions. We could not have done this year without you! A cheerful thanks to:
Mary Lou Ramirez, Betty Rivera, Peggy O’Brien, Joe Williams, Maryam Amiryani, Nick Terry, Calletana Vargas, Adrienne Humblet, Melody Bowers, Ellen Kimble, Jeff Matthias, Audrey Herrera, Annete Mendoza, Chris Ramming, Gory Smelley, Annie Rosenthal, Carlos Morales, Larissa Weaverling, Ian Lewis, Jennie Lyn Hamilton, Jean Landry, Mary Lou Saxon, Keller Doss, Darlene Marwitz, Faith Melgaard, Susan Kirr, Britt Mazurek, Scott May, Will Juett, Joni Marginot, Bob Schwabb, Leslie Wilkes, Bertha Armendariz, Evan Remaldi, Tomas Salgado, and Alek Argreta, Fr. Pablo Mata, and Eddie Pallares.
To a healthful and abundant 2022,
With love to all,
Genevieve, Elbert, Kate and Princess
This is Princess 👑🐱💜