Wadena Food Bank Association

05/08/2026

🔥 BBQ with a Purpose! 🔥

Our Member Appreciation Day BBQs are back on June 17 & 18, and we need YOUR ideas!

Every year, the money raised at our BBQs is reinvested locally and once again this year, we’ll be supporting a non‑profit community group in each of our communities.

👉 Who should it be?

Comment below with a local non‑profit organization you’d like to see supported in your community.

🍔 Eat local. Support local. Choose local.

05/08/2026

In April we served 91 families: 177 adults and 116 children. Each distribution brought about 45 families to the food bank.

04/19/2026

A few ideas for items you might like to donate sometime.

04/10/2026

For the month of March we served 98 families: 293 adults and 112 children.

12/14/2025

Students from Wadena Elementary School delivered the school's collected donations. Thank you to all!

12/14/2025

12/12/2025

Wadena Bakery's new owners have continued the generous tradition of donating buns for the Christmas hampers. Thanks again!

12/11/2025

A big shout out to Wadena’s Dollar Store & More for their donation of toys and gift bags this year.

11/21/2025

Thanks to donors from Invermay for this collection of items delivered to the food bank. Next: onto the shelves and then out the door to homes in our community.

11/06/2025

This week, Jordan Hart, Emily Lessmeister, and Garrett Hart delivered 401 pounds of donations collected by 12 local Bunge (Viterra) employees. As always, members of our community step up to help each other. We thank you.

03/06/2025

We thank the Rose Valley Catechism group for doing a community-wide food drive & donating their collection to our food bank. This is the kind of support that helps keep our shelves full!