People are hurting bad out there, and if you doubt that, go talk to anyone running a food pantry around Highlands County. Tough times have left households in ruins, people living in their cars and desperately needing food. It's painful to see so many people in serious need. ...more

November 15, 2009

Church Service Center in Avon Park is now feeding 700 families a month - 25 percent more than last year. ...more

November 15, 2009

Some area food pantries are seeing an increase in families in need in Hernando County ...more

November 13, 2009

Mosaic Fertilizer celebrated its first five years on the New York Stock Exchange recently by contributing $45,000 and 6,000 pounds of food to benefit America's Second Harvest. ...more

November 11, 2009

Mosaic Fertilizer celebrated its first five years on the New York Stock Exchange recently by contributing $45,000 in cash and 6,000 pounds of food to benefit America's Second Harvest. ...more

November 4, 2009

As home gardeners prepare a patch in their yards for an annual vegetable garden, a Mulberry woman is hoping to plant a seed of her own. ...more

October 21, 2009

During the recession and high unemployment, more Pasco people than ever have been struggling just to put food on the table. So Chasco Fiesta and United Way of Pasco County are teaming up on the first Stock the Shelves food drive during the entire run of the festival, March 19 - March 29. ...more

March 18, 2009

In soup kitchens, food pantries and universities across the country, activists are planting the seeds for an overhaul of the way America feeds its more than 35 million hungry people, the first major challenge to a system largely developed in the 1960s. ...more

January 26, 2009

Parkway Food Ministries in Sebring was providing food to about 50 families a month when it opened in October 2007. With the recession hitting people harder, the ministry now gives food to 300 families monthly. ...more

January 26, 2009

It was business as usual for the more than 40 volunteers of the Nativity Food Pantry as they prepared carts filled with groceries Thursday for 175 needy families at Nativity Catholic Church. ...more

January 21, 2009