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The Open Door

The Open Door is a hunger relief organization dedicated to ending local hunger through access to healthy food. Through its collective programs, The Open Door serves more than 15,000 Dakota County residents each month and distributes over 3 million pounds of food annually, 70% of which is fresh and/or perishable. Clients are able to access healthy food choices through a fixed-site food pantry in Eagan, multiple Mobile Pantry sites, the Mobile Lunch Box, and the Garden To Table program.

Watch the video to learn more then take a quick tour of our programs below.

The Pantry, Eagan
The Open Door’s core mission is “a healthy food approach to ending local hunger through access to healthy food”. At our Pantry in Eagan and on our Mobile Pantry, milk, eggs, dairy, meat, chicken, fish, bakery, fruits and vegetables are offered to food insecure families at every visit. At least 70% of the food offered is fresh and perishable. Families select their own food, as no food is pre-bagged for the client.

In addition to our client-choice model, we now also offer a monthly drive-thru option with pre-packed boxes containing a variety of perishable and non-perishable food items.

Pop-Up Pantry
If our communities can’t get to the pantry, then we bring the pantry out to our communities! The Open Door believes healthy food should be accessible to everyone, and through our Pop-Up Pantry program we bring food to clients in the communities where they live. From mobile home parks to apartment complexes to senior living facilities, individuals and families select healthy, wholesome food from our temporary mini-pantry setups.
The Mobile Lunch Box
The Mobile Lunch Box is a new one-of-a-kind approach to addressing children’s hunger in the summertime when parents are at work and children are not in school accessing free and reduced meal programs. The Mobile Lunch Box brings free healthy lunches to neighborhoods across Dakota County. Kids also receive a bag of healthy food to take home with them.

Garden To Table
With 13 sites and more than 350 plots, Garden To Table® is a sustainable approach to eliminating hunger and promotes improved access to fresh garden produce for families in need of food support through 1) adoptable plots—garden plots, seeds, plants, and tools are available for food shelf clients at no cost and 2) giving gardens—churches, schools and businesses provide fresh garden produce for the Pantry.

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