Helping the Food Share Move

The Lamoille Community Food Share which Caroline has been working with since we first moved up here (4 years now) is in the process of moving to a new site. They have been in the basement of a church in the center of Morrisville for many years but are now moving across town to a rental space on the ground floor. This is a big to do. It will be a vast improvement for moving food and other supplies. They have had to carry them down into the basement. It also will be a big plus for their clients since many are elderly, or have health problems and they should be able to get into the new space much more easily.

The space can also be laid out the way they want it instead of being in several rooms with various types of shelves. Our contribution at this point has been designing and building some shelving to hold the food. We've been working on this for the last several weeks after Caroline could not get anyone else to come up with reasonable plans. In the picture to the left you can get some idea of the layout of the space with their new freezers on the left wall and you can see the door to the future bathroom beyond them. On the floor you can see the makings of a number of our shelves. Caroline is getting set to put together the next unit.

The next picture is of some of the units up against the wall. The hope is to have four units on each side and possibly more units for what they call "Commodities" which is bulk food

they get from the government. The top, more narrow shelves, are where their clients will pick food. The bottom shelves are going to be used for storage to restock the top. They are going to put curtains in front of the bottom shelves to hide the reserves. As you can see there is still quite a ways to go. They are hoping to move by the end of the month. We'll keep our fingers crossed.