Food pantry drop-off locations?

[kathmandu]

Anyone know of a food pantry drop-off site, for physical donations? The places I used to give aren't there any more.

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[gingicat]

There's a free fridge outside Havurat Shalom on College Avenue, and another in a parking lot in Medford Square.

[minoanmiss]

The one in Medford Sq is a little tan kiosk in the parking lot across the street from the Senior Center at 101 Riverside Avenue

[minoanmiss]

I just made this post about the Watertown Community Fridge

https://davis-square.dreamwidth.org/3700895.html

There is a list of community fridges in the comments.

[jadelennox]

depending on how much you have and where you are, arlington food link can sometimes arrange pickups.

[jducoeur]

For smaller donations, there's a "Little Free Pantry" (basically a Little Free Library, but for non-perishable packaged food) alongside the community path, a short ways from Davis Square heading towards Cedar Street (on the left-hand side if you're going in that direction).

[kathmandu]

Thank you, that might be the closest match. Non-perishable packaged food is what I have, and it needs cooking to become ready to eat.

(My understanding was that community fridges were meant for perishable, ready-to-eat stuff.)

[minoanmiss]

FWIW, I don't think I've seen a community fridge without a pantry attached for packaged food, but that Little Free Pantry sounds like a worthwhile resource. makes a note of it

[kal]

The link to community fridges is https://boston.eater.com/maps/community-fridges-boston

The Watertown fridge has shelves for non-perishables, likely if you check that link you will see the guidelines that others have, and those probably are similar to Watertown's https://www.watertowncommunityfridge.org/donation-guidelines

Any food can go in the fridge, not just ready-to-eat.