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Places to consider donating money or volunteering are: Health and Hunger Coalition, Hospitality House, Greenway Baptist Church Food Pantry, or Casting Bread Food Pantry through Faithbridge United Methodist Church.
We also encourage anyone who wishes to help with food, financial donations, or volunteering to contact Rumple Memorial in Blowing Rock. They are providing over 70 food boxes per week to three schools alone, then countless more to other churches, groups, and individuals. ***Additionally, they have an ongoing need for boxes and will until further notice. Please take them to the church and drop them off in the back, under the covered porch.
Watauga County Schools teachers and staff will be making contact with students and families through phone calls and emails. However, if you have an unmet food need, please email the contact for your school listed below.
School point of contact people:Bethel - Megan Langdon, langdonm@wataugaschools.orgBlowing Rock - Heather Holbrook, holbrookh@wataugaschools.orgCove Creek - Mary Smalling, smallingmc@wataugaschools.org Green Valley - Heather Holbrook, holbrookh@wataugaschools.orgHardin Park - Denise Presnell, presnelld@wataugaschools.org Mabel - Megan Langdon, langdonm@wataugaschools.orgParkway - Megan Langdon, langdonm@wataugaschools.orgValle Crucis - Bonnie Smith, smithb@wataugaschools.org WHS - Jennifer Wandler, wandlerj@wataugaschools.org
We also encourage anyone who wishes to help with food, financial donations, or volunteering to contact Rumple Memorial in Blowing Rock. They are providing over 70 food boxes per week to three schools alone, then countless more to other churches, groups, and individuals. ***Additionally, they have an ongoing need for boxes and will until further notice. Please take them to the church and drop them off in the back, under the covered porch.
Watauga County Schools teachers and staff will be making contact with students and families through phone calls and emails. However, if you have an unmet food need, please email the contact for your school listed below.
School point of contact people:Bethel - Megan Langdon, langdonm@wataugaschools.orgBlowing Rock - Heather Holbrook, holbrookh@wataugaschools.orgCove Creek - Mary Smalling, smallingmc@wataugaschools.org Green Valley - Heather Holbrook, holbrookh@wataugaschools.orgHardin Park - Denise Presnell, presnelld@wataugaschools.org Mabel - Megan Langdon, langdonm@wataugaschools.orgParkway - Megan Langdon, langdonm@wataugaschools.orgValle Crucis - Bonnie Smith, smithb@wataugaschools.org WHS - Jennifer Wandler, wandlerj@wataugaschools.org
Restaurants
Restaurants
F.A.R.M. Cafe (828)386-1000 11:00am-2:00pm Monday-Friday
What: Free lunch, kids under 10 eat free. Donation based
Where: 617 W King St, Boone, NC 28607
Thompson's Seafood 828-265-3400 8:00am-11:00am Monday-Friday
What: Free breakfast for all children.
Where: 5714 Old US 421 S, Deep Gap, NC 28618
Churches
Churches
Cornerstone Summit Church 828-265-3795 3:00pm-6:00pm Thursdays
What: Food boxes
Where: 372 W. King St., Boone NC
High Country United Church of Christ 828-297-1092
10:30am-1:00pm (Saturday); 5:15pm-7:00pm (Mondays)
What: Food boxes
Where: 8235 U.S. Hwy 421 N, Vilas, NC 28692
The Heart 828-264-3415 1:00pm-4:00pm Wednesdays
What: Food boxes
Where: 191 Howard Street, Boone, NC 28607
The Rock 828-355-5795 5:00pm-7:00pm Wednesdays and Sundays
What: Food Box
Where: 215 Boone Heights Dr #301, Boone, NC 28607 (entrance between Mint and Skyline National Bank)
Boone United Methodist Church 828-264-6090 5:00pm-6:30pm Thursdays
What: To go meals
Where: 471 New Market Blvd, Boone, NC 28607
Brushy Fork Church 828-297-2524 4:00pm-6:00pm Monday-Friday
What: Dinner
Where: 3915 US Hwy 421, N. Vilas 28692
Alliance Bible Fellowship 828-262-8312 3:00pm-5:00pm Mondays
What: Food box (1 per NC family per month)
Where: 1035 NC Hwy. 105 Bypass, Boone, NC 28607
Mount Vernon Baptist Church 828-266-9700 Any time (please call first)
What: Food boxes
Where: 3505 Bamboo Rd, Boone, NC 28607
Greenway Baptist Church 828-264-7750 10:00am-2:30pm Thursdays
What: Food boxes
Where: 880 Greenway Rd., Boone NC
Schools
Schools
Watauga High School 828-264-2407 11:00am-1:00pm Monday-Friday
What: To go meals
Where: 300 Go Pioneers Drive, Boone
Valle Crusis School 828-936-4712 11:00am-1:00pm Monday-Friday; 11:00am Wednesdays (food boxes)
What: To go meals; food boxes (Wed)
Where: 2998 Broadstone Rd. Sugar Grove NC
Hardin Park 828-264-8481 4:00pm-5:00pm Monday-Friday; 1:00pm-3:00pm Thursday (food boxes)
What: To go meals
Where: 361 Jefferson Rd, Boone, NC 28607 (BACK OF THE SCHOOL)
Green Valley 828-264-3606 11:00am-1:00pm
What: To go meals
Where: 189 Big Hill Rd, Boone, NC 28607
Bethel Elementary 828-297-2240 11:00am-1:00pm Monday-Friday
What: To go meals
Where: 138 Bethel School Rd, Sugar Grove, NC 28679
Mabel Elementary 828-297-2512 11:00am-1:00pm Monday-Friday
What: To go meals
Where: 404 Mabel School Rd, Zionville, NC 28698
Parkway School 828-264-3032 1:00pm-3:00pm Thursdays
What: Food boxes
Where: 160 Parkway School Dr, Boone, NC 28607
Community
Community
New Public House 828-295-3487 8:00am-11:00am Monday-Friday
What: Free breakfast
Where: 239 Sunset Dr, Blowing Rock, NC 28605
Health and Hunger Coalition 828-262-1628 10:00am-3:00pm M
What: food boxes, individual food items. Families can get food boxes twice a month. Also, they will have diapers, free baby formula, and baby wipes for Watauga County residents only. They will have to fill out a form the first time they go there
Where: 141 Health Center Dr., Boone, NC 28607
Hospitality House 828-264-1237 6:30-8:30 am; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 5:30-6:30 pm (every day)
What: Food pantry and soup kitchen. Food pantry is open 7 days a week (***New hours 11 am - 4 pm). May pick up twice a month
Where: 338 Brook Hollow Road, Boone, NC 28607
Casting Bread Food Pantry 828-295-8333 10:30am-3:00pm Wednesdays and Thursdays
What: Food pantry and soup kitchen
Where: 194 Aho Rd., Blowing Rock, NC 28605
Blowing Rock C.A.R.E.S. 828-295-7675 9:00AM-12:00PM Monday
What: Food pantry
Where: Rumple Memorial, 1218 Main St., Blowing Rock 28605
Western Watauga Food Outreach 828-297-6233 4:00pm-6:00pm Thursdays
What: Food bags
Where: 120 Henson Hollar Rd. Vilas, North Carolina 28692
**Our regular Thursdays 4-6 pm food bag distribution is moving from Community Center to Henson's Chapel UMC located at 120 Henson Hollar Rd, Vilas, NC 28692.
Children’s Council 828-262-5424 8:30am-4:30pm Monday-Fridays
What: Supplies for young children/infants. Diaper bank on Wednesdays 8:30am-4:30pm (diapers, wipes, formula)
Where: 225 Birch St # 3, Boone, NC 28607
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