2022 Donation Drop Off Locations
by Karen Fitzpatrick in Donations
Volunteer Drivers Needed Volunteer drivers are needed to help us keep our donations arriving to our recipients. If you do not have the time to do a weekly location, please consider being a shared or back up driver for a specific location, or a substitute driver for vacations. Just an hour or two each week, every other week, or on an as needed basis would help tremendously.
If you would like to become a volunteer driver, please contact us at info@plantarowlv.org.
Shared driver: Willow Haven Farm pickup on Tuesday morning.
Back up or substitute drivers are noted in blue below:
Please remember when donating tomatoes to pick them slightly before they are fully ripe, and if possible place them in card board boxes. Cereal or granola boxes can be taped at the ends, and the center cut out. This helps keep them from bruising during transport.
Thank you for all you do to help provide fresh produce and herbs to families in need.
Lehigh County
Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank – operates year round
417 N, 14th Street, Allentown, PA 18102
(610) 821-1332
Call when you arrive and someone will come out to assist you.
Benefits: Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank
Monday – Friday mornings, 9:00 AM – 12:00 noon
Thursdays evenings – 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Allentown Rescue Mission – operates year round
355 Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18101
Donations are accepted at anytime.
Park in front of the mission. There is a sign with the phone number to call to drop off donations. Someone will come out to take your donations.
Benefits: Allentown Rescue Mission
Betty Lou’s Pantry – operates year round
333 Oxford Street, Coopersburg, PA 18036
Benefits: Betty Lou’s Pantry
Second and Fourth Saturdays, 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Emmaus Community Garden
Robert Rodale Way, Emmaus, PA 18049
Benefits: Bethel Bible Fellowship Church Food Bank, Casa Guadalupe in Allentown and Zionsville Lutheran Church Food Bank
Sunday evening after 6:30 PM until 10:00 AM Monday morning
Emmaus Public Library
11 E Main Street, Emmaus, PA 18049
Benefits: Bethel Bible Fellowship Church Food Bank, Casa Guadalupe in Allentown and Zionsville Lutheran Church Food Bank
Sunday evening after 6:30 PM until 10:00 AM Monday morning
Jordan Lutheran Church – new location
5103 Snowdrift Rd, Orefield, PA 18069
Note: Cooler is located is on the sidewalk underneath the awning at the double doors entrance on Snowdrift Road
Benefits: Jordan Lutheran Food Pantry
Sundays prior to the first and third Mondays, from 8:00 AM – 12:00 noon
Leigh County Community Garden – Cedarbrook – backup driver needed
Cedarbrook Road, South Whitehall, PA 18104
Note: Cedarbrook Road is off of Dorney Park Road. Enter the Cedarbrook Complex, stay to the right. The gardens are behind the Maintenance Building.
Benefits: Everlasting Life Ministries Food Pantry, Allentown
Thursdays before 5:00 PM
Lehigh Community Garden – Jordan Creek Parkway – backup driver needed
Lehnert Road, Whitehall, PA 18052
Note: Scherersville Road becomes Lehnert Road
Benefits: Everlasting Life Ministries Food Pantry, Allentown
Thursdays before 5:00 PM
Lehigh Valley Home & Garden Center
4220 Crackersport Road, Allentown, PA 18104
Benefits: Sixth Street Shelter
Thursdays, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
New Tripoli
7724 Carpet Road, New Tripoli, PA 18066
Note: Place donations in the red truck at the end of the driveway.
Benefits: Lowhill Food Pantry at Christ’s Church and St. Peter’s United Methodist Church
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
St. Ann’s Knights of Columbus Garden of Mercy – backup driver needed
at the Church of St. Ann
415 S. 6th Street, Emmaus, PA 18049
Benefits: New Bethany Ministries, Greater Shiloh Church Food Pantry (Bethlehem Campus), and Whitehall Food Pantry at St. Stephen’s Church
Saturdays, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
St. John’s Lutheran Church
1028 Church Street, Fogelsville, PA 18051
Benefits: St. Paul’s United Church of Christ Food Pantry, Trexlertown
Mondays, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Southern Lehigh Public Library
3200 Preston Lane, Center Valley, 18034
Benefits: Allentown Rescue Mission
Mondays, 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM
Willow Lane Elementary School
6135 Sauerkraut Lane, Macungie, PA 18062
Benefits: Sixth Street Shelter
Thursdays, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Northampton County
Bethlehem Area Public Library – Coolidge Branch – new location – backup driver needed
2740 Fifth Street, Bethlehem, PA 18020
Note: Cooler is located on the front porch Benefits: Cay Galgon Life Center, Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley and the Nehemiah Wall
Tuesdays: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Bethlehem Area Public Library – Main – backup driver needed
11 W. Church Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018
Benefits: Cay Galgon Life Center, Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley and the Nehemiah Wall
Note: Cooler is inside the library across from the circulation desk
Mondays, 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Diefenderfer Community Garden – backup driver needed
6300 Hanoverville Road, Bethlehem, PA 18017
Benefits: Allentown Rescue Mission
Wednesday, before 1:00 PM
Hanover Township Community Center – new location – backup driver needed
3660 Jacksonville Road, Bethlehem, PA 18017
Benefits: Allentown Rescue Mission
Note: Cooler is on the bench inside front entrance
Tuesday afternoon from 3 PM until 1PM on Wednesday
Louise W. Moore Park – pick up day has changed – backup driver needed
Louise Moore Park, Easton, PA 18045
Benefits: Safe Harbor and Greater Shiloh Church (Easton Campus)
Fridays before 10:00 AM
New Bethany Ministries – Food Pantry – operates year round
380 Shawnee Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Note: Shawnee is one way; enter by turning into the CVS parking lot from Broadway, turn left onto Shawnee (the alley behind CVS). In one block Shawnee bends to the left, park here, on the right. Signs will say “Cathedral parking.” You will not be towed. Staff will be at the food pantry (blue building) to help you unload.
Benefits: New Bethany Ministries
Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Pot This, LLC – new location
1124 Center Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018
Note: Place donations in cooler on front porch.
Benefits: Cay Galgon Life Center, Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley and the Nehemiah Wall
Monday – Thursday, 7 AM – 4 PM
St. Luke’s Anderson Community Garden
1872 St Luke’s Boulevard, Easton, PA 18045
Note: The community garden is behind the hospital complex.
Benefits: Safe Harbor and Greater Shiloh Church (Easton Campus)
Thursday mornings, before 10:00 AM
Trinity Lutheran Church
323 Nazareth Pike, Bethlehem, PA 18020
Note: Bin is by the benches near the parking lot door.
Benefits: Nazareth Area Food Bank
Sundays, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Non-Drop Off Locations
Lehigh University Community Garden – backup driver needed
Goodman Campus
Benefits: Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley
The Lutheran Home at Topton
Benefits: St. Paul’s United Church of Christ Food Pantry, Trexlertown
Willow Haven Farm – shared driver/backup driver needed
New Tripoli
Benefits: Grace Lutheran Church Food Cupboard, Macungie and The Bread Ministry of Emmaus
2018 Donation Dropoff Locations
by Joseph Marlin in Donations
All 2018 donation points are now closed for the season!
Nativity Lutheran
4004 Tilghman St, Allentown, PA 18104
Benefits: Ecumenical Food Bank
Saturday and Sunday, 8:00AM – 6:00PM
Betty Lou’s Pantry
333 Oxford St, Coopersburg, PA 18036
Benefits: Betty Lou’s Pantry
Second and Fourth Saturdays, 8:00AM – 9:00AM
Southern Lehigh Library
3200 Preston Lane, Center Valley, 18034
Benefits: Betty Lou’s Pantry / New Bethany Ministry
Mondays – 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
St. Luke’s Anderson
1872 St Luke’s Blvd, Easton, PA 18045
Benefits: Nazareth Area Food Bank
Tuesdays, before 12:00PM
Louise W Moore Park (Magnolia Tree)
Louise Moore Park, Easton, PA 18045
Benefits: Nazareth Area Food Bank
Tuesdays, before 1:00PM
Diefenderfer Community Garden
6300 Hanoverville Rd, Bethlehem, PA 18017
Benefits: Second Harvest Food Bank
Wednesdays, 7:00AM – 2:00PM
Bethlehem
818 West Union Blvd, Bethlehem, PA
Benefits: New Bethany Ministry
Tuesdays, 10:00AM – 5:30PM
Camel’s Hump Farm on the Johnston Estate
1311 Santee Mill Road, Bethlehem, PA 18017
Benefits: New Bethany Ministry
Sundays, 9:00AM – 8:00PM
Emmaus Community Garden
Robert Rodale Way, Emmaus, PA 18049
Benefits: Zionsville/Bethel
Mondays, 8:00AM – 12:00PM
Emmaus Public Library
11 E Main St, Emmaus, PA 18049
Benefits: Casa Guadalupe, Jefferson Elementary food pantry, Central Elementary Food Pantry
Mondays, Wednesdays, 8:00AM – 10:00AM
Allentown Weekends
1305 N Cedar Crest Blvd, Allentown, PA 18104
Benefits: New Bethany Ministry
Saturdays, 6:00AM – 9:00PM
Bogie #10 KoC
Lower Macungie Road – Bogie Ave, Macungie, PA 18062
Benefits: New Bethany Ministry
Saturdays, 8:00AM – 12:00PM
Neighbors Garden Center
38 Main St, Hellertown, PA 18055
Benefits: New Bethany Ministry
Thursdays, 8:00AM – 5:00PM
Lehigh Valley Home & Garden
4220 Crackersport Rd, Allentown, PA 18104
Benefits: Sixth Street Shelter
Thursdays, 8:00AM – 5:30PM
New Bethany Ministries
341 W 4th St, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Benefits: New Bethany Ministry
Monday – Friday, 8:00AM – 4:00PM
New Tripoli
7373 Gun Club Rd. New Tripoli PA. 18066
Benefits: Casa Guadalupe, Jefferson Elementary food pantry, Central Elementary Food Pantry
Tuesdays, 9:00AM – 7:00PM
St. John’s Lutheran Church
1028 Church St, Fogelsville, PA 18051
Benefits: St Paul’s United Church of Christ
Mondays, 9:00AM – 6:00PM
Trinity Lutheran Church
323 Nazareth Pike, Bethlehem, PA 18020
Benefits: Second Harvest Food Bank
Notes: Bin is by the benches near the parking lot door.
Sunday, 8:00AM – 6:00PM
Easton
521 Seitz St. Easton PA, 18042
Benefits: Easton area emergency food programs
Tuesdays, 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM
Forks
403 Paxinosa Road East, Easton PA 18040
Benefits: Easton area emergency food programs
Wednesdays, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Kellyn Foundation
336 Bushkill St, Tatamy, PA 18085
Benefits: Easton area emergency food programs
Wednesdays, 9:00AM – 6:00PM
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