Across the country, food banks have been reporting vast increases in demand for their support since the pandemic began as businesses close and new families lose jobs daily. But at least one Crescent City food bank is bucking that trend.
âItâs kind of counterintuitive of what we thought would happen,â said Amanda Hixson, who oversees the Pacific Pantry at the Family Resource Center of the Redwoods and directs the Del Notre and Tribal Lands Community Food Council. âWe donât quite understand why our numbers are down.â
Those numbers are the pantryâs usership statistics. In 2019, the pantry handed out self-selected bags of non-perishables just over 6,000 times.