St. Leo Food Connection

08/19/2026

🚨 Upcoming Closures at St. Leo Food Connection* 🚨

Please mark your calendars! St. Leo Food Connection will be closed on:

📅 Tuesday, August 25
📅 Tuesday, September 1

We’re having important HVAC work completed to keep our food bank comfortable, safe, and operational for years to come. 🔧

We may have additional closures as the work progresses, so stay tuned for updates and please check back before planning your visit.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we make these important improvements! ❤️

St. Leo Food Connection
Sharing abundance. Nourishing dignity. Advancing equity.

08/17/2026

We are SO lucky to be partnering with Tacoma Pro Bono! 💙⚖️

Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, August 18th, Tacoma Pro Bono will be at St. Leo’s Food Connection on the third Tuesday of each month, offering legal aid pop-ups for anyone who has a civil legal issue they’d like to talk about.

🗓️ Third Tuesday every month
📍 St. Leo Food Connection, 1323 S. Yakima Ave.
⏰ 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Tacoma Pro Bono can help shoppers with civil legal issues on a first-come, first-served basis. Their legal aid pop-ups are walk-in, first-come, first-served, and open to anyone.

If you have a civil legal issue you’d like to talk with Tacoma Pro Bono about, stop by.

We're looking forward to seeing you next week if you have a civil legal issue you'd like to talk with us about! Our legal aid pop-ups are walk-in, first-come, first-served, and open to anyone.

We're excited to be adding a new location on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at St. Leo's Food Connection, 1323 S. Yakima, from 11-1! Thank you to St. Leo's for inviting us!

FOR VETERANS ONLY -- We (our VALOR Program attorney and outreach. staff) will be at Building 9 at American Lake from 1-4 p.m., hope to see you there! Bring any issues you need help with, from VA benefits to family law issues to landlord-tenant problems to questions about estates and wills.

St. Leo Food Connection

08/13/2026

If you have time and physical ability, please consider helping David at Urban Harvest Exchange in the next week! Several gleaning sessions are in need of support.

🍎🍐 **VOLUNTEERS NEEDED — 5 FRUIT GLEANS!** 🍑

Here's why we need more gleaners:

I recently spent **5 HOURS BY MYSELF** gleaning one property.

🌳 3 apple trees = **about 450 pounds of apples**
🌳 1 plum tree = **about 100 pounds of plums**

That's approximately **550 POUNDS OF FRUIT** picked, loaded, transported, and shared with the community from just ONE property!

Now we have **5 more gleans coming up and need your help!**

🌳 **FRIDAY, AUGUST 14**
📍 Hilltop
⏰ 12:30 PM
🍑 Plums
**2 gleaners needed**

🌳 **SUNDAY, AUGUST 16**
📍 Parkland
⏰ 12:00 PM
🍑 Plums

🌳 **MONDAY, AUGUST 17**

🍐 **11:00 AM — Lincoln District**
Pears

🍑 **1:30 PM — Lincoln District**
Plums

🍎 **4:00 PM — South End**
Apples

You can volunteer for **one glean or several. No experience necessary!**

🙋 **PLEASE COME HELP US PICK!**

Send Urban Harvest Exchange a private message with the **date and time you can help**, and we'll send you the exact location and details.

A few extra hands can make an enormous difference. Every apple, pear, and plum we harvest is fresh local food that can be shared instead of going to waste.

🌱 **Rescue the Harvest. Nourish the People.**

08/12/2026

A BIG thank you to Heritage Bank's main branch for putting together and donating seven boxes of hygiene and cold-weather kits to St. Leo Food Connection! 💙

Practical essentials like these make a difference for our neighbors, especially as we prepare for colder weather. Thank you, Heritage Bank, for caring for our community.

08/12/2026

Thank you, Tacoma City Council, for your support of our pilot partnership with Tacoma Public Library!

We're grateful for the opportunity to work alongside library staff to expand access to healthy food where children and families already gather. Thanks to the Council's unanimous approval of $15,000 in contingency funding, we'll be able to provide healthy snacks and meals through this innovative collaboration and evaluate its impact for the future.

Together, we're building a stronger, healthier Tacoma—one neighborhood at a time. 💙📚🥪

Free lunches are available until Aug. 28. Previously, staff had been purchasing snacks on their own for kids in library programs.

08/04/2026

Reminder that we are closed this week!

07/29/2026

🥚We're eggstra low on egg cartons! 🥚

Do you have empty egg cartons piling up at home? We'd love to give them a second life!

We're in need of egg cartons of all sizes: 6-count, 12-count, 18-count, and 24-count to help us safely distribute fresh eggs to our neighbors.

Drop them off Monday through Friday 8:30 to 4:30. Thank you for helping us keep our and our egg supply cracking! 💛

07/29/2026

If your family hasn't received SUN Bucks yet, there's still time to check your eligibility and apply! $120 per eligible child is available to you.

🌞 SUN Bucks helps eligible school-aged children get $120 for groceries during the summer, making it easier to keep healthy meals on the table while school is out.

✅ Think you might qualify? Don't wait—check your eligibility and submit an application today.

Every child deserves access to nutritious food all summer long. Learn more and apply today!

07/28/2026

Whatever Jimothy says! 😂
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07/28/2026

You never know who might stop by St. Leo Food Connection.

Last Saturday, we had a surprise volunteer join us: Seattle Supersonics legend Shawn Kemp! 🏀 It was a fun and unexpected visit that brought plenty of smiles to volunteers and shoppers.

We're grateful that legends like the Reign Man take time to serve our community. Thanks for stepping up, Shawn—we loved having you dunk on hunger alongside us!