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In November 2024, MPR News featured St. Peter Area Food Shelf twice to talk about hunger in our community, and what our food shelf is doing about it. High cost of living drives Minnesota visits to food shelves, adds strain to system | MPR News Rising costs for groceries, housing, and other basics are sending more Minnesotans to food shelves, and St. Peter is no exception. This story goes inside our food shelf to show how our volunteers are keeping up as more people need help,

Article Date: October 16, 2025 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/16/government-shutdown-threatens-food-family-aid-for-minnesotans

Article Date: August 17, 2025 Campaign Video | Greater Mankato Area United Way

Article Date; August 17, 2025 “I Can't Say Enough About This Place”: From Food Shelf Shopper to Coordinator | 2harvest.org

Article Date: August 17, 2025 This Doesn't Just Happen”: How the St. Peter Community Supports Their Food Shelf | 2harvest.org

Article Date: August 17, 2025 Minnesota food shelves transform into grocery stores amid federal funding cuts | MPR News

Article Date: August 17, 2025 Honoring 40 years of caring at the St. Peter Area Food Shelf Legislative Update from Rep. Erica Schwartz

Article Date: August 2, 2025 Tom Polich’s positive impression of St. Peter Area Food Shelf has been enhanced since viewing the emergency pantry’s recent transformation into a more inviting space for shoppers. “It reminds me of a co-op or a farmers market,” said Polich, who works at Region Nine Development Commission. The food shelf, with a 40-plus years experience in helping food-insecure people, showed off its spruced-up space to the public on Tuesday. Read More >

Article Date: August 17, 2025 Using a multi-step systems change process, SuperShelf works with food shelves to: Create a food shelf environment that is client centered, promoting and respecting individual choice Increase access to a variety of healthy, culturally appropriate food Apply behavioral economic principles promote healthy food choices Create an appealing environment by transforming the physical space Meet specific SuperShelf standards, methods, and values Mak

Article Date: August 17, 2025 St. Peter food shelf has open house to celebrate becoming a SuperShelf. Over 122 community members came to the food shelf for a formal ribbon cutting by the St. Peter Area Chamber of Commerce. Refreshments, food, games for children, resource tables and a wall full of history made it a great event for all who attended. https://www.facebook.com/61558758983296/videos/753135464118761/

Article Date: April 9, 2025 Thank you for making history in Nicollet County with the March 2025 Food Drive Collection Totals! We are happy to report that financial donations totaled $53,273.88 and food donations weighed 6,011 pounds! Surpassing last year's total. Thank you to the businesses and organizations that allowed us to provide a bin and jar for collecting. And a thank you to every member of our community who donated!

Article Date: April 9, 2025 A big shout out and Thank You to the All-Greek-Philanthropy for donating almost 200 pounds of personal care products, household products and baby supplies for the food shelf!

Article Date: March 22, 2025 St. Peter Cub Scouts Pack #58 and St. Peter Boy Scouts Troup #58 stopped by this morning to drop off 1,049 pounds of food and 2 autographed drawings! Thank you for your hard work! The boys learned how to navigate the scale ramp in no time. Kinda like an airplane gotta keep the wheels on the runway. And I got to learn a little about a few of them. One aspires to be an NFL player but is really good at math and will settle for being a teacher if his

Article Date: March 22, 2025 What a wonderful day for a parade!! Thank you St. Peter St. Patrick's Day Parade, St. Peter Chamber of Commerce and the many Gustavus Greek Life students who showed up to represent the food shelf by walking in the parade to collect food and donations yesterday! Even the kids donated some of their hard earned candy! Our final totals are as follows: Almost 100 pounds of food $37 in mostly $1 bills 2 dumdums 1 swedish fish packet 1 sweet tart packet

Article Date: March 13, 2025 A small project can have a brilliant impact. Take the River of Life Lutheran Church in St. Peter, Minnesota, for example. With the help of a CERTs Seed Grant, they upgraded the lighting in their “Friends Building” to energy-efficient LEDs. Now, this vital community hub, home to several local organizations, is shining brighter — literally and figuratively. We spoke with church leadership to learn more about the project’s impact. https://www.cleanen

Article Date: March 5, 2025 Second Harvest Heartland Retail Rescue Program and St. Peter Area Food Shelf were delighted to visit HyVee and the two Kwik Trips in St. Peter to express appreciation for their partnership in diverting safe, edible food to hungry households. Over the past year, these three sites EACH diverted enough food to provide over 4500 meals! St. Peter Area Food Shelf manager Cindy Favre is pictured with employees from Hy-Vee.

Article Date: March 5, 2025 It is that time of year again! March 1st - April 6th, 2025, is the annual MN Food Share March Campaign! All food and funds raised in St. Peter stay in St. Peter! You can bring your donations to any one of the following locations listed on the flyer below! We appreciate your support! We have seen a 63% increase in households needing assistance since March 2022. Spring cleaning is a great time to go through your cupboards and see if there is anything

Article Date: March 5, 2025 While we are sad that the Care St. Peter program has closed, we are grateful that they shared their personal care and food stores with us! Best wishes to their staff and patients!

Article Date: February 6, 2025 We had a team of 6 Frozen Foodies today who all took the plunge! We helped raise $637 total for the MN Special Olympics! What a wonderful community adventure this was! Thank you to everyone who came out to support the cause!

Article Date: January 30, 2025 Another step towards the Super Shelf! A new produce cooler donated by Foundation for Essential Needs and Horizon Equipment and delivered to us by Kato Moving and Storage! Shoppers will have more produce to make their own selections! Stay tuned for more updates on our Super Shelf progress!