Solid Rock Community Development Corporation

09/04/2026

🚨 Help us fill our shelves! 🚨

Solid Rock Food Center is urgently in need of:

🍝 Pasta
🍚 Rice

Here’s how you can help:

📦 Drop off donations
Monday: 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Tuesday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.- 1p.m.
📍 3217 S. Academy Boulevard, Colorado Springs

🥫 Host a food drive with your church, workplace, school, or network. To arrange a drive, email [email protected] or call 719-985-8935.

❤️ Donate so we can purchase the food we need most:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=WM9EDA3JL9C88

Every box, bag, and donation helps us keep food on our shelves for our neighbors. No donation is too small! One can at a time we can CAN hunger.

09/03/2026

❗️FREE Farmer’s Market Saturday, September 19th 12pm-3pm!! Fresh produce will be free to the community. 🍊🌽🥦🍅🥬

We are still in need of volunteers for this event and would love to have you all help us! Click here if you would like to volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4AA9AA2BA1FDC07-65405292-free

09/03/2026

09/03/2026

Food insecurity across Colorado has reached a 12-year high and behind that headline is the reality food pantries like ours are seeing every week.

More families are coming through our doors, and food is leaving faster than we can replace it. The space pictured would normally hold 16 pallets of food. Right now, it sits empty, and our dry-food supply is already running low.

We are stretching everything we have so we can give something to every family who comes to Solid Rock Food Center. But stretching our food also means we are forced to give each household less even as families are struggling more.

According to Food Bank of the Rockies, rising living costs, inflation, and decreases in federal support are making it harder for Colorado families to get by. Roughly half of the people experiencing food insecurity in our state do not qualify for programs like SNAP, leaving more of our neighbors turning to local food banks and pantries for help.

We urgently need our community’s help filling this empty space and restocking our shelves.

📍 Drop off food donations at:
Solid Rock Community Food Center
3219 S. Academy Boulevard
Colorado Springs, CO 80916

Donation hours:
Monday: 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Tuesday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

📧 To host a food drive or coordinate a larger donation, contact us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) or call (719) 985-8935.

You can also help by sharing this post. No donation is too small one can at a time, we can CAN hunger. But we cannot do it without our community. ❤️
Donate here:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=WM9EDA3JL9C88

Read more about the growing need across Colorado:
[https://www.kkco11news.com/2026/09/03/food-insecurity-hits-12-year-high-food-bank-rockies-city-market-team-up/](https://www.kkco11news.com/2026/09/03/food-insecurity-hits-12-year-high-food-bank-rockies-city-market-team-up/)

08/31/2026

🥬🌶️ **Healthy Recipe Idea!**

We have cabbage and peppers available at the Solid Rock Food Pantry this week! Here is a simple and delicious way to use them together.

This sautéed cabbage and peppers recipe makes a healthy side dish and if you add some sliced sausage, you have a filling meal for the whole family!

Recipe: [https://www.allrecipes.com/sauteed-cabbage-and-peppers-6579110](https://www.allrecipes.com/sauteed-cabbage-and-peppers-6579110)

08/31/2026

🍎OUR NUMBERS ARE RISING, AND WE NEED OUR COMMUNITY’S HELP. 🍅
Last month, we were serving around 600 families a week.
Two weeks ago: 644 families.�Last week: 672 families.
We are getting close to numbers we haven’t seen since the SNAP freeze, and right now our dry-food inventory is sitting at about half capacity.
We still have food. We are still providing meat, some fresh produce, baked items and basic dry goods thanks to Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado. But with more and more families walking through our doors every week, we don’t want our neighbors leaving with just a few cans, some bread and produce.
We want families to have food they can actually turn into meals. ❤️
We want a parent to be able to look at what they chose from our shelves and know they can make dinner that night. We want our seniors to have food that will stretch. We want our neighbors to continue having nutritious options and choices that work for their households.
🥫 OUR BIGGEST NEEDS RIGHT NOW:�• Pasta�• Rice�• Instant potatoes�• Boxed/packaged sides�• Pasta sauce�• Mac & cheese�• Canned tuna or chicken�• Cereal and shelf-stable breakfast foods
We are asking our community to help us fill these shelves.
Host a food drive at your workplace, church, school, neighborhood, business or organization. Get your coworkers together. Ask your friends and family. Put a collection box in your office.
It doesn't have to be huge.
20 items matter. One box matters. One can matters.
If interested in hosting a food drive email [email protected] for more details.
Because when all of us give a little, together we can make sure our neighbors have enough to put real meals on their tables.
❤️ One can at a time, we CAN can hunger.
Please share and help us spread the word.

Or if you want to make a monetary donation you can do so at the link below

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=WM9EDA3JL9C88

08/29/2026

🚨 **VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED TUESDAY FROM 3–6 PM!** 🚨

This is always our hardest shift to fill. It falls during dinner, after-school activities, and the end of the workday but it is also one of the most important times for us to be available.

These are the hours when teachers are getting off work, parents are picking up their children, and working families are coming through our doors to shop for food for their households. We need enough volunteers to welcome every neighbor with dignity, compassion, and care.

If you can give just a day, it would make a difference. Please sign up below and help us ensure no one in our community goes hungry. ❤️

[https://www.signupgenius.com/go/solidrockcdc #/](https://www.signupgenius.com/go/solidrockcdc #/)

08/28/2026

A huge thank you to our friends at Rocky Mountain Health Care Services for coming out to volunteer with us! ❤️
We love when coworkers, organizations, and other groups come together to bond while serving their community and we especially love hearing them say they want to return with their families!
This incredible team helped stock our shelves, prepare bags for local students, clean the pantry, and get everything ready for next week. They were such a great group and served our community with true heart.
If your workplace, organization, church, or community group is interested in volunteering together, please email [email protected]

Or if you are interested in volunteering with your family or by yourself you can signup on our volunteer platform

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/solidrockcdc #/

08/27/2026

🥬 We Need Your Help. Every Saturday Matters at our Community Aquaponics Farm🥬

Every week, our community aquaponics farm grows 600–800 heads of fresh lettuce that are distributed to local food pantries, helping families put fresh, healthy food on their tables.

But here's the reality...

The lettuce doesn't harvest itself. Without volunteers, that fresh food can't make it to the families who need it most.

We're urgently looking for volunteers every Saturday to help with easy tasks like harvesting lettuce, seeding, planting, and other light farm work. No experience is necessary we'll teach you everything you need to know!

Whether you can volunteer once or make it part of your monthly routine, your time truly makes a difference.

When you volunteer, you're not just helping on a farm you are helping fight food insecurity right here in our community.

💚 Sign up today:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044EA8AE2DA2FAC52-61646978-harvest #/

Please consider volunteering, and if you can't, sharing this post may help us reach someone who can. Together, we can ensure fresh, local food continues reaching the families who need it most.

08/27/2026

Once a month you are able to get diapers and formula at the food pantry during regular food distribution hours at 3217 S Academy. Monday 1-2 and Tuesday 2-6 thanks to our partners at WeeCycle who make it possible.
We also provide adult diapers thanks to our community for always donating and dropping them off.