TaSH, Sleepy Hollow HS Food Pantry Team Up To Fight Hunger

TARRYTOWN, NY — The TaSH Farmers Market and the Sleepy Hollow High School’s new food pantry are teaming up to help fight hunger in the community.

Organizers of the farmers market said all of the local farmers and one of the bakers are donating excess food from the market to the food pantry.

The seven vendors collectively provide an average 130 pounds of fresh food, which is the equivalent of 108 meals, for the high school’s food pantry.

The pantry has grown to serve about 80 families a week, organizers said. Nearly half of all Sleepy Hollow High School students are eligible for free and reduced-price school lunches.

TaSH board member Krista Barron said everyone should benefit from the market and what it has to offer.

“The high school’s food pantry is an extension of the ethos and awareness of what it truly means to be part of a community,” she said.

The high school food pantry started serving students and their families in April. It began after a student asked the school’s principal for permission to take home some extra soup from a food drive the school was hosting, according to a spokesperson. The student told the principal that the student’s family was hungry.

Students and their families can sign up anonymously through this website to pick up the fresh produce provided by the TaSH, along with canned fish, meat, bread, pasta, rice and other staples, once a week at the high school. Staff from the school pick up food from the farmers market, and students help inventory and pack the food.

The pantry is also funded through donations from high school staffers and local organizations, including the Community Food Pantry of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown and The Foundation for the Public Schools of the Tarrytowns.

Donations to the food pantry can be made through this website by dedicating the donation to the SHHS Food Pantry.

Shelf-stable food items, such as canned goods, past and rice, can be dropped off at the high school’s main office, 201 N. Broadway in Sleepy Hollow, from 7:30 a.m.to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

Donations can also be mailed to the school: SHHS Food Pantry, 210 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow NY 10591.