Weekly Distribution
Our core pantry at Tumbleweed Lane. Choose your own groceries — fresh produce, meat and dairy when available, and shelf staples — every week.
Need food this week?
You’re in the right place.
Sagebrush Community Food Bank is a neighbor-run pantry serving Dry Creek and the surrounding ranch country. If your cupboards are running low, come see us — no paperwork, no judgment, no questions you have to earn your way past. Just good food and friendly faces.
Every $1 given turns into about 4 meals on a neighbor’s table.
Distribution: Tue & Thu 10am–2pm · Sat 9am–12pm · 412 Tumbleweed Lane, Dry Creek
The need out here is real — and so is the response
1 in 9
neighbors in Dry Creek County faced food insecurity at some point last year — including working families, ranch hands, and retirees on fixed incomes.
1 in 6
local children live in households that sometimes run short on food before the next paycheck or benefit cycle arrives.
34 mi
is the average round trip to the nearest full-service grocery store for families in our service area. When the truck breaks down, the pantry can’t be far behind.
Get food — here’s how it works
Getting groceries from Sagebrush is simple, and it stays simple. If you live in Dry Creek County or the surrounding area and you need food, you qualify. That’s the whole test.
Who can come
- Anyone who needs food. Families, singles, seniors, students, seasonal and ranch workers — if you’re short on groceries, come in.
- No income limits to start. We don’t check pay stubs, and we never turn a first-time visitor away.
- Come once a week. Visit any distribution day that works for your schedule.
- Shop with dignity. You pick the food your household will actually eat — produce, protein, pantry staples, and household basics when we have them.
What to bring
- Nothing is required to get started. Truly — your first visit needs no documents at all.
- On later visits, a piece of mail or anything with your name and address helps us keep quick records.
- Bring bags or boxes if you have them; if you don’t, we’ll set you up.
- Can’t get to us? Ask about home delivery and the mobile pantry — or call (555) 014-2900.
Distribution hours
Tuesday10:00am – 2:00pm
Thursday10:00am – 2:00pm
Saturday9:00am – 12:00pm
412 Tumbleweed Lane, Dry Creek, WY 82401. Look for the green barn-style building past the grain silos — parking is free, and volunteers will help you carry boxes to your vehicle.
Find us here: 412 Tumbleweed Lane, Dry Creek, WY 82401 — in the wide-open Wyoming basin, about 40 minutes from the nearest stoplight. Call (555) 014-2900 if you need directions.
Sagebrush Community Food Bank · 412 Tumbleweed Lane, Dry Creek, WY 82401 · Open in maps
Neighbors feeding neighbors since 2009
Sagebrush Community Food Bank started in the back room of the Dry Creek community hall, when a handful of ranch families pooled their garden surplus so nobody on their road would go without. Seventeen years on, we run a small warehouse, a mobile pantry route, and partnerships with fourteen churches, schools, and senior centers across the county — but the idea hasn’t changed: out here, we look after our own, and “our own” means everybody.
We’re an independent, volunteer-powered nonprofit. Most of the food on our shelves comes from local donors, area farms and ranches, grocery rescue runs, and community food drives — and most of the hands that move it belong to your neighbors.
Join the crew1,840
Households served
in the last 12 months
512,000
Pounds of food shared
roughly 425,000 meals
96
Active volunteers
giving 11,300 hours a year
14
Partner pantries & sites
schools, churches & senior centers
Programs that meet people where they are
A single pantry counter can’t serve a county this spread out. Here’s how Sagebrush gets food the last mile — and the last forty miles.
Mobile Pantry
Our refrigerated truck runs a monthly route to the county’s far corners — school lots, fire halls, and crossroads communities too small for a store.
School Backpack Program
Discreet weekend food bags tucked into kids’ backpacks on Fridays, so students come back Monday fed and ready to learn — no stigma, no forms for kids.
Senior Boxes
A monthly box built for older adults: easy-open proteins, low-sodium staples, and fresh items that don’t need a full kitchen — plus a handwritten note.
Home Delivery
For neighbors who are homebound, recovering, or without reliable transportation, volunteers deliver a full grocery box right to the door — and stay for a chat.
Farm & Garden Partners
Area farms, ranches, and backyard gardeners donate surplus produce, eggs, and beef. In season, our gleaning crew harvests fields that would otherwise go unpicked.
When my husband’s hours got cut at the plant, I put off coming for weeks — I kept thinking somebody else needed it more. The first thing the volunteer at the door said was, ‘We’ve been saving you a box.’ Nobody made me explain myself. Now I volunteer on Thursdays, because I know exactly what that first walk through the door feels like.
Marla T.Pantry participant since 2023 · now a Thursday distribution volunteer
Most needed right now
Food donations keep our shelves honest. These are the items we run out of first — bring donations by any distribution day, or to the drop barrel at Dry Creek Grocery.
- Canned tuna & chicken Urgent
- Peanut butter Urgent
- Rice & dried beans
- Canned fruit & vegetables
- Pasta & pasta sauce
- Oatmeal & breakfast cereal
- Canned soup & chili
- Diapers & baby formula
- Soap, shampoo & toothpaste
- Pet food (dry)
Run a food drive with your crew
Churches, classrooms, 4-H clubs, and businesses across the county run barrel drives for Sagebrush all year. We’ll deliver the barrels, give you a most-needed list to share, and pick everything up when you’re done — then tell you exactly how many pounds your group raised.
Start a food driveGive once, or feed neighbors every month
Money stretches further than cans: because we buy staple foods in bulk and rescue surplus from local stores, every dollar you give turns into about four meals. Monthly givers — our Sagebrush Sustainers — are the reason we can promise a full box every single week, even in the lean months.
- $25 stocks a week of breakfast staples for two families.
- $60 fills a Senior Box route for a full month.
- $120 fuels the mobile pantry for one complete county run.
Prefer to give food instead? See what we need most right now, or call us at (555) 014-2900 about donating livestock, garden surplus, or a vehicle.
Make a gift
Thank you — and a quick note
This is a demonstration: your gift was not processed and no payment was taken. Sagebrush Community Food Bank is a fictional organization created to show what a finished food bank website can do.
Volunteer with us
Ninety-six neighbors keep Sagebrush running — packing boxes, driving the delivery route, greeting folks at the door, and picking garden surplus in season. Shifts are short, training is on us, and the coffee is always on.
- Distribution crew — pack boxes and help neighbors shop, Tue/Thu/Sat.
- Drivers & delivery — home delivery and mobile pantry routes.
- Warehouse & sorting — weekday mornings, flexible scheduling.
- Events & food drives — seasonal help at drives and fundraisers.
Groups welcome — we host school, church, and workplace teams. Questions first? Call (555) 014-2900.
Sign up to volunteer
Tell us a little about yourself and we’ll be in touch about orientation.
You’re on the list!
Thanks for raising your hand. On a live site, our volunteer coordinator would follow up within a couple of days about orientation. This demo form didn’t send anything — but we appreciate you all the same.
Coming up at Sagebrush
Drives, orientations, and one very good dinner. Mark the calendar — every event below is free to attend unless noted.
21Nov
Harvest Roundup Food Drive
Our biggest drive of the year, in the Dry Creek Grocery parking lot. Fill a bag from the most-needed list, drop it at the truck, and stay for cider and live music from the high school jazz band.
1Dec
New Volunteer Orientation
A friendly one-hour walkthrough: how distribution days run, food safety basics, and a tour of the warehouse. Coffee and cinnamon rolls provided; no commitment required.
11Dec
Long Table Fundraiser Dinner
One long table, one hundred neighbors, and a harvest menu cooked by local chefs from donated farm produce. Proceeds stock the winter Senior Box route. Tickets $40 at the door.
The Sagebrush Letter
One short email a month: what’s on the shelves, what we need most, and who showed up to help. No noise, no selling your address — ever.
You’re in — welcome to The Sagebrush Letter. (Demo signup: nothing was sent or stored.)
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Talk to a human
Questions about getting food, giving, or volunteering? Reach out — a real neighbor answers.
Visit
412 Tumbleweed Lane
Dry Creek, WY 82401
Green barn-style building past the grain silos.
Call or write
Phone: (555) 014-2900
Email: [email protected]
Hours
Distribution: Tue & Thu 10am–2pm, Sat 9am–12pm.
Donation drop-off: any distribution day, plus the barrel at Dry Creek Grocery.
Privacy, in plain words
What we collect: only what you hand us — your name and contact details when you sign up to volunteer, give, or join the newsletter. We never ask pantry visitors for documents to start receiving food, and visiting this site doesn’t track you for advertising.
What we do with it: coordinate your volunteering, thank you for gifts, and send the newsletter you asked for. That’s the list. We don’t sell, rent, or trade your information, and we don’t share it outside the small team that needs it to do the job.
Your choices: ask us at any time what we have on file for you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it — email [email protected] and we’ll take care of it. (And a reminder: this is an example website for a fictional organization, so these addresses don’t reach a real inbox.)
Terms of use, in plain words
What this site is: an example website built by Tarsus Partners LLC to demonstrate a finished website for a small community food bank. Sagebrush Community Food Bank is fictional; its phone number, email, and address are not real, and its stories, statistics, and events are illustrative.
Demonstration features: the donation panel, volunteer form, newsletter signup, and chat box on this page are demos. They process no payments, send no messages, and store nothing. Please don’t enter real financial information anywhere on this site — no page here will ever ask for it.
Using the content: you’re welcome to read and share this page. The design and copy were created as a portfolio example; if you’d like a site like this for your real organization, that’s exactly the conversation this example exists to start.