St. Mark’s Community Food Bank is an outreach ministry that supports families and individuals who are in need of food assistance. Families may visit us once a month to choose from a menu of food items including canned fruits, canned vegetables, and meat. Through generous donations from the community, we sometimes have toiletries, fresh produce, and other food items. We serve around 230 low income families a month.
If you are dropping off food, we are open Tuesdays-Fridays from 8:00am-3:00pm. Please call 301-733-7550 to make arrangements outside of food bank hours.
The entrance of the Food Bank is on Washington St. across from the laundry mat and check cashing businesses. There is free, on street parking. Look for the Food Pantry signs and take those stairs down. If assistance is needed, please ask. We love to help.
For people in need of food, the Food Bank is open Tuesdays thru Fridays from 1-3:00pm. No appointment is needed. You will need to bring a current, valid, government issued photo ID and be a Washington County, MD resident.
For donations, we are open Tuesday - Fridays from 8:00am until 3:00pm. Please call the church at 301-733-7550 to make arrangements if you want to drop off food outside of the Food Bank hours. We take all produce and non expired items. We accept store bought baked goods but not homemade food items. Our clients LOVE garden produce and it quickly disappears.
ProducePedia
ProducePedia is a free resource that covers the types of fresh produce that can be delivered to food pantries. Each entry includes information on color, taste, and possible uses. People unfamiliar with the vegetable or fruit will learn how to use it, and those who are familiar with it still might learn a fun fact or two!
The Cooperative Extension sites have a wealth of information for any backyard gardener. Once you go to the site (each one if very different from the others) look for a link for “homes and gardens”, “landscape”, “consumer horticulture”, etc. to find information on improving your backyard garden. Neighboring state sites may offer information your own state’s site lacks.
