Kawartha Food Share

10/08/2026

🏴‍☠️Ahoy Mateys!! 🏴‍☠️

Our Porch Pirates Food Drive is fast approaching, happening Saturday October 24th!

🆘We are still in serious need of volunteers to help make our 7th Annual Porch Pirates Food Drive a success!🆘

📜We still need pirates to distribute flyers the week before between Monday October 19th-Thursday October 22nd📜

🥫We still need pirates to collect the bounty from routes on the day of the food drive🥫

🏴‍☠️Please reach out to [email protected] if you’d like to participate in this fun and impactful event!! 🏴‍☠️

10/01/2026

Batten down the hatches, the pirates are coming OCTOBER 24th and we need your help to make it happen!! 🏴‍☠️

🆘🆘🆘We are looking for pirates to help distribute flyers in mailboxes the week before the event, as well as collect donations on the day of!
Please email [email protected] if interested! This is a great way for students to obtain community service hours! 🆘🆘🆘

If you would like to donate food items, please have your donation visible on your porch by 9am on Saturday Oct 24th and our pirates will sail the high sea to collect the treasures!! Please attach our flyer (Thank you to the amazing for creating the flyer for us again!!) or your own note for the pirates that helps make your donation easy to see! 🎃🏴‍☠️
Thank you in advance for your support, Ptbo! 🖤

09/30/2026

Today, September 30th, 2026 marks the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day.

On this day, we reflect on Canada’s history of colonial harms to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We recognize the lasting impacts of the Residential School System and honour those whose lives were lost, the survivors, their families, and communities.
We must acknowledge the intergenerational trauma and ongoing injustices that Indigenous communities continue to endure, and we must challenge the colonial systems that perpetuate harm in the present day.

Today we are asked to listen, learn, reflect, and take meaningful action. The journey toward reconciliation is not a single day or act; it requires an ongoing commitment to learning and working alongside Indigenous communities in the pursuit of healing and reconciliation.

Below are just a few of the many resources available for learning and listening:

Know whose land you live on:

https://native-land.ca/maps/native-land

Why the orange shirt? Read Phyllis Webstad’s Story:

https://orangeshirtday.org/about/phyllis-story/

Read the 94 TRC Calls To Action (only 15 of 94 completed since 2015)

https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

Read the “Honouring Truth, Reconciling for the Future” Summary of the Final Report of the TRC:

https://nctr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Executive_Summary_English_Web.pdf

Read about local history and support local Indigenous authors:

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/other-human-survivance-against-trent-severn-waterway

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is Our Territory by Gidigaa Migizi (Doug Williams):

https://www.whetung.com/products/michi-saagiig-nishnaabeg-this-is-our-territory

Many local events are happening in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough; we will be sharing details and information on our stories! 🧡 🧡

08/21/2026

A full warehouse and full hearts! Thank you to everyone who made this food drive such a great success.
We are so thankful for all of the store owners, staff, volunteers and our wonderful community members who donated!

Most importantly, we’re so appreciative of the Hustle and Heart 96.7 WOW FM Hustle & Heart Freq 90.5 team for their support not only during this food drive, but all year long.
Support your local radio stations folks!!

What a haul!!! Thanks to you, we were able to deliver 4300 lbs of food to Kawartha Food Share!

Thanks to everyone who donated and the businesses who supported the Marks All Hands On Deck food drive

08/21/2026

That’s a wrap for this year’s All Hands on Deck Food Drive!! 🍎🧀🥫🍞 96.7 WOW FM Freq 90.5

Together our community donated over 4,000lbs of essential staple food items and snacks just in time for the start of the new school year to support those who need it most! Also, over $3000 was collected in monetary donations! 💛
Thank you to our participating grocery stores, all those who made this food drive possible, and our community for making it such a success!! We appreciate you and your ongoing support! 💛

08/20/2026

08/20/2026

08/20/2026

The Marks All Hands On Deck food drive is well underway in support of Kawartha Food Share
We already have a great haul coming in at No Frills and filling the Waterworld Pools Peterborough truck

Come see as both No Frills, Foodland in Peterborough and Ennismore and Jo Anne's Place Health Foods

08/20/2026

Big Thanks to Backpack Sponsor ES Solutions - the pump and irrigation professionals - for their backpack donation at the all hands on deck food drive.
We're at Ennismore Foodland until 6pm along with No Frills No Frills and Sherbrooke Foodland East City Foodland and Jo Anne's Place Health Foods

08/20/2026

Today was such a great day at the All Hands on Deck Food Drive! Thank you to everyone who has stopped by at all participating locations and made a donation.
Also a great big thank you to No Frills for donating 810.00 to assist us in food purchasing for back to school!
Your continued support is so greatly appreciated! 💛