Dandelion Community Specialty Pantry

09/02/2026

We are excited to announce we are partnering with TrinketCousins! We will receive every cent of profit and put it towards stock for the pantry, tables, and holiday events! last year we were able to help 10 people with thanksgiving food, this year we hope to make it more. We are also looking into something in regards to Halloween so keep your eyes peeled!

Stop by Tansy and Thyme at 110 SE 3rd Ave, Albany, OR 97321 tomorrow to buy your first ticket!

If this raffle goes well we hope to do many more in the future! I'm told there are some one of a kind items in this raffle😉

08/29/2026

Good morning everyone! Im glad to say yesterday was a huge success! We were able to help a lot of people, and The Dandelion Pantry will continue to partner with the Really, Really Free Market Albany OR.

That being said, our stock is significantly lower now that we've been able to distribute so much food to the community, we are in need of donations! Please reach out if you have any food to donate, we can accept anything unopened and unexpired as long as it isnt perishable!

We are also partnering with TrinketCousins to do a raffle at a local business for all sorts of goodies from 3 vendors, all the proceeds of the raffle will go directly to the Dandelion Pantry! There will be more details in the next few days about where and when the raffle will be, as well as how it will work, so keep an eye out!

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08/28/2026

We're currently at hackleman park with the Really, Really Free Market Albany OR from 12 to 4 pm 8/28/2026! Bring what you can take what you need!

08/28/2026

Hello everyone! Today, 8/28/2026, the pantry will be at Hackleman park distributing food aid from 🟢12pm to 4pm🟢! bring what you can take what you need. donations NOT required, but are welcome! If you do donate please only donate unopened, non perishable and unexpired food.

We will be there with the Really, Really Free Market Albany OR! A huge thanks to them for teaming up with the pantry to help us distribute food!

▶We have some can openers too!!◀

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08/15/2026

Hello everyone! We are 2 weeks out from the pantry's first community food event! As you know we are partnering with the Really, Really Free Market Albany OR and will be setting up along side them with our food stock on august 28th!

That being said, right up until the 28th, we will be looking for help with food donations.
🔴We can accept any food that isn't open or expired, we cannot accept any food that needs to be frozen or refrigerated.🔴

💫What we do accept💫:
🟢Canned food of any kind
🟢unopened cat/dog food
🟢baby food
🟢any unopened and unexpired food🟢
🟢any shelf stable drinks like water, soda, certain nut milks.
🟢We also accept any monetary gifts such as gift cards or cash to be used exclusively for the pantry! [any and all receipts will be posted]

🟢➡We can pickup any food donations within the Albany/Tangent/Millersburg area, we also have a location for drop offs as well! Please DM with details and pickup/drop-off times, [we can do porch pickup as well].⬅🟢

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08/02/2026

WONDERFUL things are happening! The Dandelion Pantry is partnering with the Really, Really Free Market Albany OR! The market has set up a Patreon which will be used to secure funds which I will link in this post. We are also partnering with a small business to help fund things with a raffle as well, so keep an eye out for that post!

We at the pantry decided that we needed a location a well known place to distribute much of the donations we've been given, while we work towards a larger and more established operation. We are still always accepting messages in regards to donations, which we can pick up or have dropped off!

Please, if you have any food you know you wont eat that isn't expired, don't wait! donate it to us or a local pantry who can get it into the hands of people who will have a use for it!

https://www.patreon.com/cw/RrfmAlbany

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07/31/2026

06/13/2026

Hello all, there's been a development with how we will move forward with the pantry!

We have decided that the dandelion community pantry with develop into an emergency pantry that is able to step up in times of greater when regular pantries are unable to fill needs.

We are working on several ideas to help foster preparedness within the community as well as develop plans to be prepared for anything from a supply chain issue, to disasters, or even another attempt from the government to starve its people like in 2025.

We hope that by structuring ourselves in this way we can better focus our energy and work with our limited resources to have the biggest impact, while still retaining our goal of helping those who are often left behind or fall through the cracks.

Thank you for reading, and I look forward to the future!

03/12/2026

Hello everyone Its Justin Watkins. The pantry is going through some changes and shifts right now, but I want you to know that things are on track for the future!

When the pantry was first created and thought up, the people of Albany and the rest of Oregon were facing an emergency. The government was shut down and SNAP would not be given out for an unknown amount of time, despite funding being set aside for this specific situation, the federal government didn't see it fit to feed its most vulnerable populations.

That urgency lead to an idea to create a pantry. We did a lot of helping people, handing out food to upwards of 28 families, and helping with thanksgiving dinner of many people as well. Albany stepped up most, while I was busy delivering and picking up, you all were giving whatever you had to keep our neighbors fed.

However in the haste of it all, things were easier. Now that things have slowed down a bit, I had almost no idea where to start. I'm doing the work to restructure the new organization into something smaller to start, with the hope to grow into a hub that can feed those who fall through the cracks in the system.

This little node of mutual aid is a stubborn flower of hope for me and I hope it does the same for more people💛.

Please stay tuned for more announcements regarding volunteers and people who would like to have a hand in building this mutual aid hub I dream of!

[I will have the full story of my journey(for those who are interested) in the short 3 last months of 2025 posted on my brand new substack, link in my profile]

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12/03/2025

Updates coming soon. Share this page with all your friends and family so they can also get updates when they come out😊.