We are sorta playing 6 degrees of the Food Bank of Western Mass (although you’ll only need 2 for the furthest connection, honestly).

So we head to the Easthampton Community Center to speak with the folx feeding "Whoville" at one of the largest and most expansive food pantries in the area.As they give out turkeys for this year's holidays, we get the full scope of the center’s operations by chatting with some of the patrons, some of the volunteers, and the executive director coordinating all of it:Robin Bialecki

The Toys for Joy campaign has just started, but the program has a legacy that is over a century old and brings together businesses and people throughout the region. We chat with Major Donald Spencer of and Danielle Lataille of the Salvation Army about their goals for this year, how they’ve managed to adapt their services to the needs of the community, and how some of those services do indeed connect their offices with those of the Food Bank of Western Mass. 

And if we go just a little further out, we’ll learn how the folx rescuing fabric from landfills and bringing them to turner’s falls connect to the food Bank through the upcoming March. Because every year Monte needs a new costume to walk all 43 miles in, and every year the people at Swanson’s Fabric valiantly rise to the task.