St. Leo Food Connection

08/25/2026

Quick reminder we will be closed to the public today, Tuesday, August 25 and next Tuesday, September 1.

We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to seeing you tomorrow through Saturday during our normal hours.

08/20/2026

Big thanks to the Washington Community Action Network for helping shoppers register to vote today! 🗳️❤️

We look forward to further connecting our community with voter registration resources.

Thank you for meeting shoppers where they are and your commitment to making civic participation more accessible!

08/20/2026

A huge thank you to Twisted Fork Saloon for stopping by with a check and food donations collected through their Tuesday Bingo Nights! What an honor to be the recipient of the proceeds.❤️

Want to have some fun while supporting your community? Join them for bingo Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. Every extra bingo sheet purchased supports our work to feed our community.

Thank you, Twisted Fork Saloon, for turning a fun night into meaningful support for our neighbors! 🥳

Sharing abundance. Nourishing dignity. Advancing equity.
ancing equity.

08/20/2026

We feed a LOT of people at St. Leo Food Connection—more than 151,000 visits to our locations across Pierce County each year.

And sometimes, the community feeds us!

Every Thursday, a group of wonderful women prepare a meal for our staff and volunteers. This delicious lunch is just one example.

We are honored, and well fed, by this generosity, kindness, and community. ❤️

Sharing abundance. Nourishing dignity. Advancing equity.

08/19/2026

🚨 Upcoming Closures at St. Leo Food Connection* 🚨

Please mark your calendars! St. Leo Food Connection will be closed on:

📅 Tuesday, August 25
📅 Tuesday, September 1

We’re having important HVAC work completed to keep our food bank comfortable, safe, and operational for years to come. 🔧

We may have additional closures as the work progresses, so stay tuned for updates and please check back before planning your visit.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we make these important improvements! ❤️

St. Leo Food Connection
Sharing abundance. Nourishing dignity. Advancing equity.

08/17/2026

We are SO lucky to be partnering with Tacoma Pro Bono! 💙⚖️

Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, August 18th, Tacoma Pro Bono will be at St. Leo’s Food Connection on the third Tuesday of each month, offering legal aid pop-ups for anyone who has a civil legal issue they’d like to talk about.

🗓️ Third Tuesday every month
📍 St. Leo Food Connection, 1323 S. Yakima Ave.
⏰ 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Tacoma Pro Bono can help shoppers with civil legal issues on a first-come, first-served basis. Their legal aid pop-ups are walk-in, first-come, first-served, and open to anyone.

If you have a civil legal issue you’d like to talk with Tacoma Pro Bono about, stop by.

We're looking forward to seeing you next week if you have a civil legal issue you'd like to talk with us about! Our legal aid pop-ups are walk-in, first-come, first-served, and open to anyone.

We're excited to be adding a new location on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at St. Leo's Food Connection, 1323 S. Yakima, from 11-1! Thank you to St. Leo's for inviting us!

FOR VETERANS ONLY -- We (our VALOR Program attorney and outreach. staff) will be at Building 9 at American Lake from 1-4 p.m., hope to see you there! Bring any issues you need help with, from VA benefits to family law issues to landlord-tenant problems to questions about estates and wills.

St. Leo Food Connection

08/13/2026

If you have time and physical ability, please consider helping David at Urban Harvest Exchange in the next week! Several gleaning sessions are in need of support.

🍎🍐 **VOLUNTEERS NEEDED — 5 FRUIT GLEANS!** 🍑

Here's why we need more gleaners:

I recently spent **5 HOURS BY MYSELF** gleaning one property.

🌳 3 apple trees = **about 450 pounds of apples**
🌳 1 plum tree = **about 100 pounds of plums**

That's approximately **550 POUNDS OF FRUIT** picked, loaded, transported, and shared with the community from just ONE property!

Now we have **5 more gleans coming up and need your help!**

🌳 **FRIDAY, AUGUST 14**
📍 Hilltop
⏰ 12:30 PM
🍑 Plums
**2 gleaners needed**

🌳 **SUNDAY, AUGUST 16**
📍 Parkland
⏰ 12:00 PM
🍑 Plums

🌳 **MONDAY, AUGUST 17**

🍐 **11:00 AM — Lincoln District**
Pears

🍑 **1:30 PM — Lincoln District**
Plums

🍎 **4:00 PM — South End**
Apples

You can volunteer for **one glean or several. No experience necessary!**

🙋 **PLEASE COME HELP US PICK!**

Send Urban Harvest Exchange a private message with the **date and time you can help**, and we'll send you the exact location and details.

A few extra hands can make an enormous difference. Every apple, pear, and plum we harvest is fresh local food that can be shared instead of going to waste.

🌱 **Rescue the Harvest. Nourish the People.**

08/12/2026

A BIG thank you to Heritage Bank's main branch for putting together and donating seven boxes of hygiene and cold-weather kits to St. Leo Food Connection! 💙

Practical essentials like these make a difference for our neighbors, especially as we prepare for colder weather. Thank you, Heritage Bank, for caring for our community.

08/12/2026

Thank you, Tacoma City Council, for your support of our pilot partnership with Tacoma Public Library!

We're grateful for the opportunity to work alongside library staff to expand access to healthy food where children and families already gather. Thanks to the Council's unanimous approval of $15,000 in contingency funding, we'll be able to provide healthy snacks and meals through this innovative collaboration and evaluate its impact for the future.

Together, we're building a stronger, healthier Tacoma—one neighborhood at a time. 💙📚🥪

Free lunches are available until Aug. 28. Previously, staff had been purchasing snacks on their own for kids in library programs.

08/04/2026

Reminder that we are closed this week!