Neighborhood House

Fresh Produce Distribution
2025-04-09 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-03-12 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-02-12 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-01-08 14:30 - 16:00, 2024-12-18 14:30 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Metropolitan State University, 101 690 E 7th St, St Paul, MN, 55106, United States
(November – May) take place at Metro State University in St. Paul. During each event, we distribute approximately 3,000 pounds of food to approximately 75-100 families on average.
For additional questions about the Food Markets, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Event guideline and details: Our fresh produce events are open to everyone!

Requirements: Not a thing, just yourself. An identification is not required to attend.
Recommendations: You will want to bring your own bags and a cart if you have one.
COVID-19: This event is held indoors, masks are encouraged.
Please note that your fist visit will require an onsite registration process that will take 5-10 minutes to complete.
Parking: You can park in the Metro State ramp parking for $5. Otherwise, street parking is available along 7th St. and Bates Avenue.
If available, please consider brining your own reusable bags. On average our visitors take home around 40 pounds of food

Wellstone Center Food Market CLOSED 1 – 4 p.m.
2025-04-09 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-08 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-18 13:00 - 16:00 | MN
The Wellstone Center Food Market will be closed from 1 to 4 p.m. so that our team can support the Fresh Produce Distribution event at Metro State.

March Food Drive: The Final Pour
2025-04-02 16:00 - 19:00 | Wandering Leaf Brewing Co., 2463 7th St W, St. Paul, MN, 55116, United States
Please join us at Wandering Leaf Brewing to close out March Food Drive and celebrate our incredible community! We’ll have a final Food & Fund Collection, present awards to our top fundraisers, and mingle. Wandering Leaf will donate $1 for every tall beer poured during the event.

March Food Drive: Gather & Give
2025-03-29 11:00 - 14:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
Gather up your food donations for our March Food Drive open house! Drop off your donations, tour one of our Food Markets, and enjoy ice cream and coffee. This is a great learning opportunity for the whole family. Meet our Food Market staff, learn how donations are processed, and take a fun photo!

March Food Drive 2025: Grocery Store Weekend
2025-03-23 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-22 10:00 - 14:00 | MN
We’re collecting food and funds at four local grocery stores this weekend from 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. both days! Download our Food Drive wish lists, shop for your groceries, and support our community this weekend at the following locations:
Kowalski’s on Grand
1261 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105
Download the Kowalskis on Grand Shopping List
Kowalski’s Woodbury
8505 Valley Creek Rd, Woodbury, MN 55125
Download the Kowalskis Woodbury Grand Shopping List
Lunds & Byerly’s Highland
2170 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116
Download the Lunds and Byerlys Shopping List
Inver Grove Cub
7850 Cahill Ave, Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
Download the Cub Foods Shopping List

March Food Drive - Stuff the Truck
2025-03-15 13:00 - 17:00 | Summit Brewing Company, 910 Montreal Cir, St. Paul, MN, 55102
Help us Stuff the Truck for Neighborhood House’s March Food Drive! Bring a donation of food to Summit Brewing on Saturday, March 15, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Together, we can help stock our free Food Markets to provide nutritious, delicious food for our neighbors. Come to fight hunger and stay to celebrate our community with tasty brews, a food truck, fire pits, and more!
Download our guide to donations here.

March Food Drive - Mississippi Market Saturday
2025-03-08 10:00 - 13:00 | MN
Join us at any Mississippi Market location on Saturday, March 8, to fight hunger in our community. Learn about Neighborhood House from staff and volunteers and donate food and funds for our March Food Drive!
Mississippi Market Co-op locations:
West 7th
1500 West 7th Street
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Selby
622 Selby Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104
East 7th
740 East 7th Street
Saint Paul, MN 55106

(2nd) Saturday Shopping
2025-03-08 09:30 - 12:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
Our Wellstone Center Food Market is open the second Saturday of each month.
No appointment needed, first come first served!

(2nd) Saturday Shopping
2025-02-15 09:30 - 12:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
RESCHEDULED FROM 2/8
Our Wellstone Center Food Market is open the second Saturday of each month.
No appointment needed, first come first served!

Wellstone Center Food Market CLOSED 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
2025-02-14 09:30 - 11:30 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
Wellstone Center Food Market will be closed from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Share the Love
2025-02-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
Come, be a part of our heartfelt gathering.
Valentine’s Activities:
Cookie Decorating
Card Make & Take
Movie in Theater 4–5:15 p.m.
Hot Cocoa, Coffee
& Walking Tacos

(2nd) Saturday Shopping - CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
2025-02-08 09:30 - 12:00 | MN
Due to bad weather, the 2nd Saturday shopping will be on 2/15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Our Wellstone Center Food Market is open the second Saturday of each month.
No appointment needed, first come first served!

Neighborhood House CLOSED
2025-01-01, 2024-12-31, 2024-12-25, 2024-12-24 | MN
Neighborhood House is CLOSED

Wellstone Center Food Market CLOSED ALL DAY
2024-12-12 | MN
The Wellstone Center Food Market will be CLOSED ALL DAY.

Special Holiday Fresh Produce Distribution
2024-11-27 14:30 - 16:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
At this event you can expect to receive a variety of fruits and vegetables that will be perfect for preparing a home cooked holiday meal!
Dress for the weather as the event is outdoors!

NeighbReads Book Club
2024-11-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Other
Join Neighborhood House for a public book club every other month! Please reach out to Cara Berger with any questions (cberger@neighborhoodhousemn.org)

January 23 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
A queerhijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR)

March 12 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva

A chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States’ “immigration crisis”
In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border.

May 14 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here

Poverty by America by Desmond Matthew
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

July 9 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spot

September 10 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of our Nation by Linda Villarosa

In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. Finally, the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.

November 12 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
The Southerinization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance
by Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker

Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America’s long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa.

2024 Summer Fresh Produce Distributions - St. Paul Music Academy
2024-10-30 14:00 - 15:30 | St. Paul Music Academy, 27 Geranium Ave W, St. Paul, 55117, United States
Come get free fruits and veggies for you and your household!
From July to October, you are welcome to come pick up a variety of free fruits and vegetables for you and your household. The distributions are farmer’s market style and typically held outdoors. Events are open to all and first come first served. We encourage you to bring your own large, reusable bags.
St. Paul Music Academy
27 Geranium Ave, East, St. Paul, MN 55117
3rd Thurs./5th Weds from July – October
7/18, 8/15, 9/19, 10/30
Hours: 2 – 3:30 p.m.

2024 Fresh Produce Distributions - Bruce Vento
2024-10-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Bruce Vento Elementary, 409 Case Avenue East, St. Paul, MN, 55130, United States
Come get free fruits and veggies for you and your household!
From July to October, you are welcome to come pick up a variety of free fruits and vegetables for you and your household. The distributions are farmer’s market style and typically held outdoors. Events are open to all and first come first served. We encourage you to bring your own large, reusable bags.
Bruce Vento Elementary
409 Case Avenue East, St. Paul, MN 55130
Every 4th Thursday from July to October
7/25, 8/22, 9/26, 10/24
Hours: 2 – 3:30 p.m.
