A new grocery store named the “Market on Melrose” will help address food insecurity in Northwest Roanoke.

Feeding Southwest Virginia shared the results of their food insecurity study Wednesday.

Open Door Community is a non-profit in Wytheville that provides for people in need.

Just days away from Thanksgiving, it can be difficult for some families to make a dinner or get a turkey. Two places in the New River Valley are working to ensure their communities have a meal.

Feeding Southwest Virginia received a donation of 40,000 pounds of apples and now volunteers are helping pack and sort them.

FSWVA had volunteers help sort and process food to distribute to the community.

Statistics from Feeding America show Southwest Virginia ranks 2% higher than the national average in food insecurity. This summer, Roanoke City Public Schools decided they wanted to make a difference in their community.

Feeding Southwest Virginia is working with after-school programs across Southwest Virginia to fight food insecurity.

The Community Foundation of the New River Valley has released a Food Assistance Directory to help people fighting food insecurity get connected with programs that can help.

A new study shows hunger in Virginia has increased over 50% from 2021.

Local churches and organizations came together Sunday to raise over $13,000 to fight hunger in the Roanoke Valley.

As part of the training, officers completed a group project to help the community. They built four ‘Peace Pantries’ around Danville, where you can donate non-perishable food items to those in need.

In honor of Hunger Action Month, Governor Ralph Northam paid a visit to Roanoke on Friday to see the work being done to address food insecurity.

There’s a new resource to help eliminate food insecurity in Giles County.

Ralph Northam is joining forces with several state leaders and community leaders across the state to help those in need. In a virtual town hall on Thursday, Northam signed two bills into legislation to help Virginians in undeserved rural and urban communities have better access to food. He said $1.25 million of the money will be managed by the Department of Agriculture to help create programs. This is a unique strategy that uses agriculture and food to create economic opportunities in healthy neighborhoods. It seeks to build community access, pride and power to by and within historically marginalized communities, Northam said.