  Stamp Out Hunger
Saturday, May 12
This Saturday is
Stamp Out Hunger! Leave food by your door before 9am and your local letter carrier will collect your donation. If you live in Arlington, your food will go to AFAC!
Here is a flyer of our most needed items. Please, no glass, expired food, or household items.
If your donation does not get picked up, you can drop off your food at your local Arlington post office, library, or AFAC's warehouse.
We could still use a few more hands for Stamp Out Hunger.
Strong volunteers are needed to unload & sort the incoming food from 5:30-8:30pm. Volunteers must be 16+ years old and able to lift 20-30 pounds. Sign up on the
online calendar
if you can help. It's a fast-moving, very fun event.
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 Volunteer Appreciation Picnic
Sunday, June 3
Save The Date! Join us on Sunday, June 3rd for AFAC's Annual Volunteer Appreciation Picnic from 5-7:00pm (rain or shine). This year's picnic will be held at AFAC, 2708 South Nelson Street, at our newly renovated facility. We'll have great food, music, fun and camaraderie as we celebrate YOU, our wonderful volunteers!
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Volunteer Needs
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 Produce Supervisors Wanted
We are looking for volunteers to serve as supervisors during our weekend produce bagging sessions. You'll lead other volunteers as they sort & bag the healthy, fresh produce donated by farmers' markets. Training provided. Produce bagging takes place on Saturdays, 12:30-2:30pm, and Sundays, 1:30-3:30pm. Supervisors arrive 30 minutes before each session and typically sign up to help once or twice a month.
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Taste of Arlington
May 20
Taste of Arlington
, Arlington's largest block party, will be held on Sunday, May 20. AFAC and several other local non-profits will be the charity beneficiaries of the event. AFAC is responsible for
recruiting over 90 volunteers to help with Restaurant Row & the clean-up shift. Duties could include supporting restaurant booths with their event operations, maintaining the water stations, and keeping the area clean. Volunteers will receive 5 tasting tickets to use during the event & a t-shirt.
Sign up using this link.
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Plot Against Hunger
Seedlings Wanted
It's seedling time at AFAC. Do you have some to share?
AFAC seeks 6" or taller seedlings of tomatoes, peppers (hot or sweet), and eggplants to distribute to AFAC clients and Plot gardeners.
This week we distributed 100 tomato seedlings to clients, along with packets of vegetable and flower seeds. Many more collard seedlings and nearly 300 tomato and pepper seedlings have been given to area gardens to grow crops for AFAC.
Thank you to the following gardeners for donating seedlings: Catherine Connor, Nat Duffield's class at Episcopal High School, Susi Lill, Scott McAtee, Susanna McIlwaine (Ft. Barnard), Dave Smith, Mencit Thomas
 Seeking New Sources for Produce Donations
If you are a farmer or know of a farmer who has extra crops to donate to AFAC, please contact Puwen at
[email protected]. AFAC can arrange for volunteers to help harvest extra crops, or send someone to pick up donations.
Help us Bring in the Harvest!
If you are interested in helping us harvest crops at local farms and orchards, or can help drive harvests back to AFAC during the summer and fall months, please contact
[email protected] for details.
Garden Talks
Wednesdays at 7pm
Weekly garden talks at Arlington Central Library have begun for this season! Here are upcoming topics:
May 16: Weeds 101 - Keep those Weeds at Bay
May 23: Building Raised Beds
May 30: Top 10 Vegetable Disease
Click here for the full schedule for the 2018 season!
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Little Free Library
We've added a "Little Free Library" to the outside of our building. Anyone is free to take a book or leave a book for others. It's very popular. If you have gently used books (ideally, preschool age), we'd welcome the donations.
We also have a little nook inside the new waiting room where children can color. We can accept donations of new and almost-new coloring books and crayons.
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Thank You
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Foundation for Philanthropy
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Many thanks to the farmers' markets and vendors in Arlington who donate unsold fresh and local produce to AFAC all summer long. Participating farmers markets include Arlington Courthouse, Ballston, Columbia Pike, Crystal City, Fairlington, Marymount, and Westover.
Our thanks to the groups who volunteered recently - Abingdon Elementary School, Arlington Church of the Brethren, Arlington Rotary Club, Carlyle Grand, Clarendon UMC, Episcopal High School, Foundation for Philanthropy, Grace Community Church, Langley Ward LDS, Macy's Pentagon City, Metropolitan Hospitality Group, OTM, Portico Church, Sycamore School, Temple Rodef Shalom, and USDA Food & Nutrition Services.
Big thanks to the Arlington Public Schools that donate healthy snacks on a weekly basis as a part of the Food Bus program: Abingdon ES, Arlington Science Focus ES, Arlington Traditional ES, Discovery ES, McKinley ES, Nottingham ES, Tuckahoe ES, and Temple Rodef Shalom's Religious School.
Thank you to all those who held food drives or donated to Plot Against Hunger!
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Arlington Church of the Brethren, Barrett Elementary Garden, Central Library & Garden, Fort Barnard Community Garden, Lifetime Learning Institute of NOVA, Potomac Overlook Garden, Reevesland Learning Center Garden, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Rock Spring UCC, Roy Croom, Shirlington Branch Library, St. John's Episcopal Church, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, USDA, Walter Reed Garden
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Sincerely,
Charles F. Meng
Executive Director & CEO
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