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Plant a Neighborhood Pantry

New custom built neighborhood / community pantries for sale. Aka little free pantry or blessing box. I'm just not there yet.

front of my home, which is still in use to this day. I absolutely love the neighborhood / community pantry (aka little free pantry) cause / movement and woodworking so I started building more pantries to sell in the hope that more people would want to plant their own community pantry and become stewards of them and to also fund more pantry builds. My hope and plan is to make a business of making nothing but neighborhood / community pantries and start making more customized pantries to people's specifics (paint color, shingle color, etc.) There have been many people who have made a long term effort in keeping my neighborhood pantry well stocked and I believe the same would be true elsewhere. If you have any questions about the pantries I build or about what it's like being a steward of a pantry please feel free to ask.

09/11/2024

My first pantry build has been transformed after about a weeks worth of some TLC.

New roof and architectural shingles
New door and gravity latch
New paint inside and out 2-3 coats each
💙 Sailing Suzy blue 💙
New stand alone base - all green treated
New multisectioned interior

Considering doing a vinyl graphic for the door but also would like to give a new owner that option to choose after purchasing it.

09/04/2024

Does anyone recognize this baby? When we moved from Lakeville to Northfield in 2022, the new owner took over stewarding my very first pantry build. She has decided to not keep it any longer and she thankfully reached out to me to ask if I wanted it. YES! It was lopped off at the post and dropped like a tree before I could get there. Surprising the only thing that was damaged was the roof, structurally it's still good. The plan is to give it a new life and rehome it after a complete transformation (including a new roof). It's so cool to look back a little over 6yrs ago and see how my work has progressed. Even though I was a novice to woodworking this one has held up very well since being planted in June 2018. All the other pantries came 2yrs+ after this one and even more improvements were implemented with those. I can't believe it is now back with me.🥰 Stay tuned in for updates! 👍😁

07/17/2024

My 12th neighborhood pantry just left today to be planted🌱 in Maple Grove, MN. This one is the first I've ever heard of to be going into a townhome association or HOA where they have 257 townhomes.👏💛 Great example to be setting! Many HOAs will not allow such a thing anywhere on their property. They have wanted to increase the size of their existing litte free library for awhile to include a wider selection and add a blessing section too! I believe this is the tallest of all my pantry builds so this one increases their giving area by about five times. 💃🤸‍♀️🎉🙌❤️Hallelujah! and Amen🙏

She also mentioned once it becomes available she will post to their FB page about it and share the link with me and I will of course share with all of you.

07/03/2024

My 11th neighborhood pantry left earlier today to be planted🌱 in Mora, MN. A generous sponsor, who wishes to remain anonymous, purchased this pantry as a donation to a small town, faith based non-profit organization called, "A Family and Life Resource - Mora Crisis Pregnancy Center". For probably a year, the sponsor and I have been searching for a non-profit that would accept a donation such as this pantry... it is more difficult than one would imagine. It was ultimately the sponsor's efforts that made this all happen.🙌 So thankful!

This pantry will be used as a kid's blessing box, meaning children will be able to choose from all kinds of things a youngster would enjoy, to take home after each visit. Who else remembers going to the local dentist's office and getting to pick from their treasure trove something that brings you joy?

Mora, MN is a small town with a population of roughly 3.7k people. This is the second smallest location of my pantry plantings and I'm so ecstatic about all that. I grew up in a small Iowa town with a population of 1.2k and we didn't have many resources. This fills my heart with so much joy and it's a full circle moment, personally. 🥰❤️

🙌 Oh Hallelujah and Amen 🙏

06/18/2024

My 10th neighborhood pantry left earlier today to be planted🌱 in Apple Valley, MN. This awesome gentleman purchased this pantry as a 🎉surprise🎉 donation to Spirit of Life Presbyterian Church located just off Pilot K**b Rd and will also sit just across the road from Rosemount, MN city limits. In order to not spoil the surprise I waited until he gave me the OK to post about it... so ecstatic to share this with all of you.

He mentioned that his church has had a very active, smaller pantry for a couple years but it has been deteriorating and they've been in need of a replacement. He decided to go with one that is twice as big as their current one and they plan on using it as a food pantry. This is my second build that has gone to a church, this is love your neighbor in action. This pantry will have a home smack dab in the middle of a large residential area where there’s a mixture of individual houses, duplexes, townhomes or condos and it’s only half a mile from a middle school, that is a great placement in the community.

Also this man has set a great example!!! If you can’t have a pantry where you live, for example, you live out of town, in a HOA or in an apartment or you would just rather not be involved with the maintenance and responsibilities of stewarding a pantry but love the cause, consider sponsoring a pantry.

There is sooo much to say Hallelujah about. ❤️🙌💃🤸‍♀️🎉 Love it!!!

05/20/2024

Over the weekend, I received pictures of the new Little Free Library in St. Michael, MN officially planted.🌱I love the side decals.❤️🦋🐝🐦🌼❤️

05/11/2024

My 9th neighborhood pantry left today to be planted🌱 in St. Michael, MN. This one is actually going to become a Little Free Library. In case I haven't mentioned it, even though I advertise them as food pantries, new owners get to choose what their's will be used for. Being an avid book reader myself, I can certainly appreciate he decided to go with a bigger library📚👍 than the typical smaller ones.

A statement from the new owner:
"We have been loading other free libraries in other places and decided to have one at our house to share with the rest of the neighborhood. We have 5 kids and tons of books that have been read and are ready to be shared." 💛📚🙏 Hallelujah 🙌

04/04/2024

I have finally made the roadtrip (9hr drive) down to Springdale, AR to see #8 blue 💙 pantry officially planted.🌱 This is the furthest pantry from its MN origins and I would just love it if my other 4 builds back home could be scattered all over the US like this one. It's on a campus owned by Arisa Health, a non-profit organization that works with foster children and low income families, and they decided to put it right next to a bus stop shelter... that is such a GREAT idea in every way possible!!!❤️ They know their community well. Hallelujah! 🙌

03/09/2024

A memory from my personal account before I created "Plant a Neighborhood Pantry". I had also been keeping track of the registered pantries throughout the Twin Cities... that has grown substantially over the years. ❤️ Hallelujah 🙌

This pantry is planted in Apple Valley, MN.

02/14/2024

Hi everyone! I am planning a road trip the first week of April and if anyone is interested in purchasing one of my pantry builds I would be willing to deliver along the I-35 route (as shown) at no extra cost to the new owner. If you’re interested, please send me a private message for more details. If you know of anyone please share this post with them. There are currently 4 available pantries to choose from and first to pay gets first pick of them.🌎🚙🌱🏘🙏

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1917222102041200/

09/19/2023

This goes to show that other people have the same issue I often run into.... I shouldn't ever be selling the pantries I build and just do it all for free. God doesn't lay that expense / burden on just one person. Just like giving to a food pantry or little library isn't done by just one person it's a community effort. We are each given a part to do and use our talents, skills, resources and/or education to advance His kingdom.🙏

07/24/2023

My 8th neighborhood pantry is going on its longest roadtrip today to be planted 🌱 in or around the Fayetteville, AR area!!!❤ The pantry's final location is still yet to be determined. I asked a very good friend of mine that I've known since childhood if she would take on the task of finding a good home for this pantry. She works in the foster care system and while the comparison of foster kids to pantries doesn't even come close, she has a far larger network than I do and she recognizes the need in various communities. May we all keep her in our prayers🙏as she searches for a new, willing steward and for her long drive back home.

This is the first time we've gotten one of my pantry builds and post to fit in a car.😲 So thankful and excited it fit!!!💃🤸‍♀️🙌

05/19/2023

We decided to put the pantries out for our garage sale this weekend. I've gotten comments of how cute they are and what's especially cool is informing a few who asked what they are, what they're used for. My quickest explanation is, think of the "little free libraries" but much bigger and meant for food... multiple things. Educating and exhorting the movement while people are out garage saling.👍

05/09/2023

I've been to a few flea markets in my life and know that antiques and collectibles are the usual however I still inquired about the qualifications of becoming a vendor at a local flea market today.😬 They🏠 couldn't possibly be the oddest thing you've seen at a flea market, right?🤷‍♀️ I guess it doesn't hurt to ask.

04/30/2023

I'm going to try to start expanding my advertising range so I spent some time today taking new photos of all the available pantries making sure all backgrounds are uniform, sitting at the same angle and professional looking. The sun made a few rare appearances which makes a big difference otherwise it was mostly a cloudy day. Thank goodness they're all on rolling dollies.

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The history of Plant a Neighborhood Pantry

In 2016 when I first saw something about a little free pantry I became really interested in getting my own. During my online searches to buy a community pantry I found that there really weren't many sources to buy a pantry from and there wasn't much available for sale either. Not satisfied with the very small pantries I did find out there, I built and installed my first pantry in June 2018 for in front of my home, which is still in use to this day. I absolutely love the neighborhood / community pantry (aka little free pantry) cause / movement and woodworking so I started building more pantries to sell in the hope that more people would want to plant their own community pantry and become stewards of them and to also fund more pantry builds. My hope and plan is to make a business of making nothing but neighborhood / community pantries and start making more customized pantries to people's specifics (paint color, shingle color, etc.) I'm just not there yet. There have been many people who have made a long term effort in keeping my neighborhood pantry well stocked and I believe the same would be true elsewhere. If you have any questions about the pantries I build or about what it's like being a steward of a pantry please feel free to ask.