Category: The Hungry
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Volunteer Opportunity – Family Place
The Family Place is looking for volunteers. Click to download their flyer.
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Liquid Nutrition and Shelf Stable Food Box Success Story September 2022
When I began radiation and chemotherapy for cancer the treatments made me very sick. I was too sick to prepare food and too sick to eat it if I did. My relatives would bring me food occasionally, but they all had jobs to go to, so that wasn’t very often. As time went on, I…
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Volunteer Opportunity – Meals on Wheels
Meals On Wheels is calling for volunteers to deliver 8-10 mealsweekly to homebound seniors who live in Brevard and surroundingareas. MOW of Brevard delivers meals Monday-Friday, which includes allholidays. Our volunteers meet at Transylvania Regional Hospital at10:30am to pick up meal bags and head out to drive the routes.Generally, each driver has completed the route…
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Anchor Baptist Church & Ministries – Food Bank
Anchor Baptist Church and Ministries has been serving the people of Transylvania County since 1984, operating one of the area’s most active and longstanding food distribution programs. From a 17,500 square foot warehouse in Pisgah Forest, Anchor runs multiple weekly distributions — including a dedicated monthly program for senior citizens meeting poverty income guidelines, a…
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WNCSource – Shelf Stable Meals
Are you age 60 or over, do you live in Transylvania County, do you wish you had more easy to prepare food? If the answer is yes, we may be able to help! WNCSource just received an American Rescue Plan Act Grant to provide shelf stable 7 day meal boxes free of charge! Just call…
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Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels Brevard has been delivering hot, nutritious midday meals to homebound seniors and adults with disabilities in Transylvania County since 1978 — including every holiday. In 2025, the organization delivered 20,495 meals to 65–90 clients per week, powered almost entirely by approximately 65 volunteer drivers who use their own vehicles and follow the…
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Transylvania County Farmer’s Market
Transylvania Farmers Market encourages and promotes local agriculture, horticulture, value-added and craft industries in Transylvania County. We promote health and wellness through education and access to healthy foods in the community, especially to the food insecure individuals and families. We also provide a healthy and welcoming place for our community to gather. Each week year-round…
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North Toxaway Baptist Church Food Bank
The North Toxaway Baptist Church Food Bank was established in 2005 to provide for those in need in the local area, distributing food twice a month. In 2015, the Food Bank teamed with Manna Food Bank in Asheville, paying a small delivery fee and a portion of costs for the purchased food. Volunteers from the church…
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Bread of Life
The Bread of Life is Transylvania County’s only soup kitchen, providing free daily hot meals and pantry groceries to neighbors experiencing food insecurity. Operating on a simple, no-barriers principle, the organization serves more than 1,100 hot meals each week and has more than doubled pantry distribution over the past year — reaching seniors on fixed…
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Quebec Community Club
The Quebec Community Center serves as an essential gathering place for residents in the western part of Transylvania County, providing free space for a wide range of community needs. The center is available to between 225–250 families in the area, and roughly a third of that population uses the facility at various times throughout the…