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

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