Tina picks up groceries at the Augusta Dream Center Every Tuesday, guests gather inside the Augusta Dream Center to visit the Dream Pantry and Dream Closet, where they can pick up groceries and clothing. Everyone at the Augusta Dream Center knows Tina, who has been visiting the resource center for over three years. "They help me out with more than just food or clothes," she said. "They have love, they have prayer, and I just appreciate all of them." With a daughter who loves to cook, Tina has enjoyed lots of healthy meals with the help of [...]

Karla pushes a shopping cart full of fresh and non-perishable groceries. On a sunny fall morning, Karla and Lilliana visited Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Center in Gloverville, S.C. to pick up groceries and a fresh produce box. "The fresh fruits and vegetables are the best," said Karla. Lilliana added that she plans to make healthy smoothies with the produce. Like many families in our community, Karla and Lilliana have felt the impact of inflation at the gas station and the grocery store. Food pantries like Our Lady of the Valley are helping them keep quality [...]

Historical photo of Spooky founder Evelyn Browne and Golden Harvest founder Mike Firmin receiving a check for the food and funds drive. Our 30th anniversary It’s Spooky to Be Hungry® campaign had a big goal. We asked our community to link arms with us to raise $250,000, which equals 750,000 meals. Not only did you meet the goal, you exceeded it! Together, we raised over 1 million meals between monetary and food donations. We are humbled and grateful for all of the individuals, teams, corporations, neighborhoods, schools, and our community as a whole for helping us break [...]

Special Projects Manager Glenn Tomlinson and CEO Amy Breitmann look over building plans. The Augusta warehouse will feature more workspaces and a new volunteer center. Things are changing at Golden Harvest Food Bank’s Augusta warehouse, and we are excited to share the news! Construction crews, stacks of hardware items, and a wired fence have become the visual norm at the location on Commerce Drive, which could only mean one thing: our Phase 1 Renovation Project is well underway. When we identified the 8.8 million meal gap across our service area, we knew what had to be done [...]

Woodrow smiles as fresh vegetables are loaded into his truck. He was excited to use the cabbage, potatoes, and onions in healthy recipes. As volunteers loaded fresh cabbage, onions, and potatoes into his truck, Woodrow could see plenty of possibilities.  “You’d be surprised how many different ways you can cook a potato. You can do so much with a cabbage, and onions,” he said. “I like to eat an onion sandwich. That’s bread and mayonnaise and sliced onions.”  For a distribution scheduled to begin promptly at 5:30 p.m., people arrived as early as noon. Woodrow was one [...]

Dear Friends, John receives a turkey for his family's holiday meal at a Mobile Market distribution.  During our first Golden Harvest Staff meeting in January of 2022, I shared the following scripture verse and these words:  “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” - Matthew 7:24 I shared that our [...]

Volunteers load fresh produce into the car of a family in need at a Mobile Market food distribution Two little boys poked their heads out of a car window and smiled at me. I was standing in the Augusta campus food bank parking lot, and cars in line for food snaked along for as far as I could see. Yet they were smiling. I approached them and smiled back. I pushed back tears as two volunteers loaded boxes and bags of fresh food into their trunk. As their faded white car slowly drove away, one small toddler [...]

GHFB President and CEO Amy Breitmann is joined by board members, CFS Architects staff, and builder, Todd Brown during our July 29th groundbreaking ceremony. If you’ve been by the Golden Harvest Food Bank Augusta warehouse, you may have noticed a few different things: a new sign and a construction crew.  With the launch of our new branding a few months ago, we are currently in the process of giving our old buildings and facilities a face-lift to fully meet the needs of those we serve in our 25-county area.  Last year, we identified an 8.8 million meal [...]

Golden Harvest Food Bank Founder and first Executive Director Mike Firmin stands with his family in front of the Food Bank's original location When I reflect on the thousands who have shaped Golden Harvest into what is today, I am humbled and grateful. What started 40 years ago as a small operation distributing 167,000 meals now provides more than 14 million meals a year in 24 counties through warehouses in Aiken, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia. From the supporters whose gifts helped build the Master’s Table Soup Kitchen to the corporate groups that pack meal kits for [...]

It’s almost lunchtime. Volunteers are carefully arranging trays of food, centerpieces, and water pitchers on the front tables — the special seating area for families with children and people with disabilities. Carrying her baby and keeping an eye on her son and daughter, Lekeisha finds a spot at a round table in the middle of the dining room. The meal today comes with a side of applesauce, the kids’ favorite. Lekeisha remembers visiting The Master’s Table with her family when she was a little girl. The meal center has provided hot meals to the downtown Augusta community since the [...]