Ozarks Food Harvest

Ozarks Food Harvest The only food bank serving southwest Missouri. 🍎

Join the movement to feed our neighbors by donating time, food, and funds. Located in Springfield, Missouri.

Ozarks Food Harvest is the only food bank serving southwest Missouri, providing more than 16.4 million meals to 270 pantries and programs reaching 261,000 people in 28 counties.

Comment HAM 2026 and we’ll DM you a link to more info about our Hunger Action Month events!Hunger Action Month is the na...
08/27/2026

Comment HAM 2026 and we’ll DM you a link to more info about our Hunger Action Month events!

Hunger Action Month is the national campaign to raise awareness of hunger and inspire action to end it. At Ozarks Food Harvest, all funds raised from our Hunger Action Month campaign will support the Weekend Backpack Program 🎒

It’s a pretty big deal. Spread the word. 🍊

Last week we were honored to celebrate Margene Terrill as she reached 2,000 hours of volunteering with Ozarks Food Harve...
08/27/2026

Last week we were honored to celebrate Margene Terrill as she reached 2,000 hours of volunteering with Ozarks Food Harvest!

In her time volunteering with us, Margene has helped provide an incredible 272,000 meals for our neighbors facing hunger. She's an inspiring and kind presence nearly every week with a heart for serving others.

Here's what she had to say on her celebration day: "When I first started here, I never thought I would reach this point. Didn't even think about it. I was kind of just looking for some way to give back to the community. I love how we all work together to make a lot of impact, not to mention all the different friendships you make along the way. So, I thank you for allowing me to be a part of this."

Margene, thank you for your many hours of service with Ozarks Food Harvest!

Employees at HDR Engineering, Inc. are making a difference right here in the Ozarks. In partnership with Feeding Americ...
08/25/2026

Employees at HDR Engineering, Inc. are making a difference right here in the Ozarks. In partnership with Feeding America, the HDR Foundation held an employee giving challenge during this past Day of Giving, and offices in Springfield and Forsyth helped provide this $3,250 gift with their generous donations!

Thank you to HDR for giving folks an easy way to get involved, and thank you to the kind employees who donated to help us end hunger in southwest Missouri.

250 hours of digging, laughing, planting, picking, and serving our neighbors in need. Congratulations to Scott Tune and ...
08/23/2026

250 hours of digging, laughing, planting, picking, and serving our neighbors in need. Congratulations to Scott Tune and Myra Evans for reaching 250 hours of volunteering with our Full Circle Gardens program! 💚🌱

Scott and Myra's efforts have helped hundreds of neighbors access fresh fruits and vegetables when times are tough. Thank you for helping us end hunger in the Ozarks!

Learn more about volunteering at ozarksfoodharvest.org/volunteer.

We've been able to share an incredible variety of fruits and veggies with our neighbors facing hunger this summer, and i...
08/21/2026

We've been able to share an incredible variety of fruits and veggies with our neighbors facing hunger this summer, and it's all thanks to volunteers who pick the produce and local farms who donate their excess crop.

Here are just a few of the varieties of produce we've been able to distribute:
💚 Zucchini
🍆 Eggplant and Squash
🥔 Potatoes
🫑 Peppers
🥒 Cucumbers
🍎 Apples
🫛 Green beans
🌽 Corn
🍠 Beets
🍃 Basil

We delivered this fresh produce to our partner charities who feed folks facing hunger, including Crosslines of Springfield, KVC, Footsteps and seniors centers.

Special thanks to these local farms who let our volunteers glean their crops: Victory Garden, National Heights Baptist Church, Temple Israel and FamilyThroughFaith

📢 Hey, community. We need your help. We’re in urgent need of volunteers for weekday volunteer sessions at our warehouse!...
08/20/2026

📢 Hey, community. We need your help. We’re in urgent need of volunteers for weekday volunteer sessions at our warehouse!

Session attendance has dipped in the last week as students and families prepare to go back to school, and we have an abundance of donated food that needs to be sorted before we can distribute it to our hunger-relief network. It’s crucial that weekday volunteer sessions get filled next week so we can get this food to our neighbors facing hunger. Can you help?

Sessions are three hours long with a break (or multiple breaks if it’s really hot). In just one volunteer session, you can help provide more than 300 meals for families facing hunger. Plus, it’s really fun!

Sign up now at ozarksfoodharvest.org/volunteer.

Thank you for helping us end hunger in the Ozarks!

Spire recently awarded us $5,000 to help distribute more food to our neighbors facing hunger, which helps us do cool thi...
08/19/2026

Spire recently awarded us $5,000 to help distribute more food to our neighbors facing hunger, which helps us do cool things like this:

In response to increased food insecurity rates, we held a pop-up grocery distribution at our building in Springfield last week. We were able to distribute foods like produce, bread, eggs, and more to 119 households from Greene County. Many of these folks were seeking food assistance for the first time ever, and we heard so many stories about how this food would make a difference.

Grocery distributions like these are only possible with the help of generous donors like Spire. Thank you, Spire, for helping us meet the needs of our community.

Today we'd like to celebrate Kenny Ross and his years of service on our Board of Directors. Kenny Ross has been very inv...
08/17/2026

Today we'd like to celebrate Kenny Ross and his years of service on our Board of Directors. Kenny Ross has been very involved in our mission to Transform Hunger into Hope since 2010. He has served as Board President, met many of our staff, and has been an advocate of our work in the community.

Kenny was also involved in the construction of our building here on Cedarbrook Ave, and then again when we added our 56,000 square foot expansion in 2018.

Kenny is officially retiring from his time on the Board of Directors, but he's made a lasting impact in the movement to end hunger in the Ozarks. Thank you, Kenny!

We’re still looking for artists to donate bowls to our Empty Bowls event this fall! Ceramicists, woodturners, and any ot...
08/16/2026

We’re still looking for artists to donate bowls to our Empty Bowls event this fall! Ceramicists, woodturners, and any other bowl-makers — Whatever material you work with, your bowls will help us provide meals for children facing hunger!

Bowls will be sold both online and in person this September and October to raise funds for our Weekend Backpack Program, which provides meals for kids every weekend of the school year.

We can also accept items like handmade spoons, cups, plates serving platters and more! If you’re unsure, please contact Ali Pool at [email protected]. The deadline to donate your creations is September 1, 2026. To donate bowls, please fill out this form: bit.ly/eb26artist

Since the first Empty Bowls in 2014, this event has raised more than $90,000 for the Weekend Backpack Program. We can’t wait to see your amazing bowls and provide even more meals for kids this year!

The school year will be off to a great start with this generous grant from Centene & Home State Health in partnership wi...
08/15/2026

The school year will be off to a great start with this generous grant from Centene & Home State Health in partnership with Feeding Missouri! The gift is designated for our Weekend Backpack Program, which provides meals and snacks to children facing hunger every weekend of the school year.

No child should have to wonder if they’ll have food on the weekends. Thank you to Centene & Home State Health for ensuring local kids have the meals they need to thrive!

Address

2810 N Cedarbrook Avenue
Springfield, MO
65803

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 3:30pm

Telephone

+14178653411

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