Local Boy Scouts are going door to door this month collecting food for Ozarks Food Harvest to distribute to its network of 270 pantries and programs. The 28th annual Scouting for Food goes through March 25.
Scouts are leaving plastic grocery bags on doors in southwest Missouri, and residents are asked to put nonperishable food items in them. According to Ozarks Food Harvest, donations are typically picked up the following weekend, and residents should leave the bag filled with items on their porch.
Kurtis Grothoff, a district executive with Ozark Trails Council, said the food drive teaches scouts, “how to take care of others and their community.”