by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Healthy Food, Stories from the Center
By Jennifer Lehman Development and Communications Coordinator Every Thursday afternoon, the bell rings at the Mace Street doorway. With reusable grocery bags in hand, Garry Oldham enters the Franciscan Center and walks over to the Emergency Food Pantry where he...
by admin | Sep 21, 2013 | Healthy Food, Stories from the Center
As leaves fall from the trees and cooler weather moves in, the summer growing season at One Straw Farm is winding down. Every Thursday since early June, One Straw Farm supplied 30 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares for the Franciscan Center’s Fresh Harvest...
by admin | Jul 21, 2013 | Healthy Food, Stories from the Center, Sustainability
The Franciscan Center launched our latest healthy food initiative, the Fresh Harvest CSA Project, at a press conference during United Way’s Families Living United Healthy Foods Week in May. This innovative project is the first of its kind in Baltimore, providing free...
by admin | Dec 21, 2012 | Healthy Food, Issues
When Ed McNally took on the position as Executive Director of the Franciscan Center in 2010 and reached out to us at the Center for a Livable Future (CLF) for help improving the quality of food served to their clients, I was a research assistant with CLF’s ...
by admin | Feb 27, 2012 | Healthy Food, Issues
With the sacred season of lent upon us, many Christians will be thinking of ways to make this time of prayer and self denial meaningful and spiritually enriching. One suggestion we have at the Franciscan Center is for you to “give up” some of your healthy...
