Food For All - Lodi's Community Pantry

Food For All - Lodi's Community Pantry Striving to provide Lodi with a community space for exchanging food, ideas, and resources with our neighbors. No income restrictions. No registration.

While people in the higher income brackets are now catching on to the importance of consuming fresh local foods as part of the solution to both health and environmental problems, access to such foods has not so far been an option for those of lower income or in rural areas where they are still heavily dependent on the heavily processed foods in the local grocery stores. While it would seem that fr

esh foods would be available in rural communities this is not always the case. Increasing the access to fresh food is one step, but it is also important that rural families learn the lost arts of growing and eating fresh foods once again. With this in mind the Lodi Food Pantry was started by an enthusiastic group of Lodi residents who wanted to focus on the production, collection and distribution of local, fresh food to the people of Lodi and surrounding towns. While many food pantries distribute packaged and processed foods, or foods that they must purchase from regional food distribution systems, we decided to work on increasing the self-reliance of the local community by getting maximum benefit from locally grown foods, both from neighbor's gardens and from local small farms. Our first step was to become a Neighborhood Food Hub of the Friendship Donation Network of Ithaca. As a food hub we managed to collect and distribute approximately 100 pounds of fresh produce from local farms and gardens that would otherwise have gone to waste. We open our pantry every Saturday between 12:30 and 2:00 pm (box pick up 11:30-noon) at the former Lodi Presbyterian Church just south of the village of Lodi on Rte. 414. Starting October 1st, the pantry will temporarily relocate to the Lodi Rod & Gun Club on 9382 Lodi Center Rd. Pantry distributions will be 12:30-2pm on Saturdays for the next several months while the new Lodi Town Hall is being renovated. Every week neighbors come in to the pantry to pick up the beautiful fresh produce and breads we have to offer and to talk about how to prepare vegetables that are unfamiliar to them and exchange recipes. Keeping in mind our goal of increasing the food self-reliance of the area, we hope to be a place for neighbors to share their cooking and food preservation skills with one another, to teach one another how to grow more of their own foods, and possibly to expand into purchasing foods from local farmers to be sold at wholesale prices through a pantry buying club. We are also looking for more farms in the southern half of Seneca and Schuyler counties who may be interested in donating produce to our pantry. For more information please contact Barbara Smith at 607-582-6954 or the Lodi Whittier Library at [email protected].

Hello all, here is the info for how to make a financial donation to the Lodi Food 4 All Pantry.
11/10/2025

Hello all, here is the info for how to make a financial donation to the Lodi Food 4 All Pantry.

**NEW HOURS 11AM-1PM** Come see us EVERY WEEK in the IOOF Building 8466 S. Main St., Village of Lodi(corner of 414 and ...
09/27/2025

**NEW HOURS 11AM-1PM** Come see us EVERY WEEK
in the IOOF Building 8466 S. Main St., Village of Lodi
(corner of 414 and Seneca)

The Lodi Food 4 All Pantry is relocating to the IOOF building in the village of Lodi beginning this Saturday!!Our pantry...
09/26/2025

The Lodi Food 4 All Pantry is relocating to the IOOF building in the village of Lodi beginning this Saturday!!

Our pantry distribution will be at the IOOF building located on 8466 S. Main St. in Lodi starting this Saturday September 27th from 11am-2pm.

Please let your neighbors know!

09/25/2025

REMINDER - PANTRY DISTRIBUTION
SAT SEPT 27 11A-2P
AT IOOF, 8466 S. MAIN, LODI

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Important update: The Lodi Food 4 All Pantry is relocating to the IOOF building in the village of Lodi starting this Sat...
09/25/2025

Important update: The Lodi Food 4 All Pantry is relocating to the IOOF building in the village of Lodi starting this Saturday!!

Our pantry distribution will be at the IOOF building located on 8466 S. Main St. in Lodi beginning this Saturday September 27th from 11am-2pm.

Please let your neighbors know!

This is Nadine Shepard from Three Stone Farm in Interlaken. Three Stone Farm is an organic family farm business who regu...
09/04/2025

This is Nadine Shepard from Three Stone Farm in Interlaken. Three Stone Farm is an organic family farm business who regularly donate produce to our pantry. Thank you, Nadine, and all of the Quennell family!
https://threestonefarm.com/

Here’s a recent distribution with so many high quality food items available. Come see us this Saturday, 12:30-2pm!
08/28/2025

Here’s a recent distribution with so many high quality food items available. Come see us this Saturday, 12:30-2pm!

Look at the wonderful variety of fresh food available at our distributions! We hope to see you this Saturday, 12:30-2pm!
08/21/2025

Look at the wonderful variety of fresh food available at our distributions! We hope to see you this Saturday, 12:30-2pm!

SORRY, folks, NO PANTRY this Saturday August 16. Food 4 All will be closed in honor of the all-day Lodi Rod & Gun Club B...
08/15/2025

SORRY, folks, NO PANTRY this Saturday August 16.
Food 4 All will be closed in honor of the all-day Lodi Rod & Gun Club Boofa Shoot and dinner.
See you Sat 8/23, with lots more good food to share!

Fresh produce is the foundation of the tastiest summer meals. Check out what produce we offer at this Saturday’s distrib...
08/14/2025

Fresh produce is the foundation of the tastiest summer meals. Check out what produce we offer at this Saturday’s distribution, from 12:30-2pm.

Herbs give flavor and variety to even the simplest meals! Come see what we have at distribution this Saturday August 9th...
08/07/2025

Herbs give flavor and variety to even the simplest meals! Come see what we have at distribution this Saturday August 9th, 12:30-2pm.

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IOOF Building 8466 South Main Street
Lodi, NY
14860

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12:30pm - 2pm

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+16072792571

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