Drive-Thru Donations Accepted in Concord at The Salvation Army Food Pantry...

The Salvation Army
3950 Clayton Road
Concord, California
(925) 676-6180

Click HERE for directions to: The Salvation Army Food Pantry at Clayton Road/West Street which serves over 500 families monthly. They accept fresh produce, canned or boxed food donations and many other household items.

Many area residents are unaware there is a Food Pantry at this location. The thrift shop is located in a different retail center across town.

The Lemon Lady, Fruit Harvesting for the Hungry

Anna Chan
AnnaAndAva@gmail.com
Cell: 510-406-1625


The Lemon Lady
Fruit harvesting project in the local news…


April 2009 - The Concordian Newspaper, Local Act of Kindness Brings Fruit To The Hungry Page 6, Volunteer Combats hunger pound for pound with fruit http://www.myconcordian.com/Issues/2009%20April/index.html

April 13, 2009 - KALW Crosscurrents Radio Reporter, Martina Castro
http://crosscurrents-economicedge.blogspot.com/2009/04/lemon-lady.html

March 20, 2009 - The Clayton Pioneer Newspaper, front page, Volunteer Combats Hunger http://www.claytonpioneer.com/CEPDFS/2009_Clayton_Pioneer_0320.pdf

March 18, 2009 - KGO Newstalk AM810 Radio, Bret Burkhart Interviewed Anna Chan, The Lemon Lady, on location at The Salvation Army in Concord http://www.salvationarmyconcordca.org/news_files/lemon_lady.html

Click below to listen:

Podcasts - Good News: The Lemon Lady
In this installment of Good News, KGO's Bret Burkhart tells us about Anna Chan, who gathered fruit from neighborhood trees that would've otherwise ended up in the green bin, and took it to very grateful food banks around the Bay Area. You might say her plan came to fruition!

March 13, 2009 - Food Bank Contra Costa and Solano
One-woman door-to-door campaign against hunger
http://foodbankccs.blogspot.com/2009/03/one-woman-door-to-door-campaign-against.html

March 11, 2009 - Diablo Magazine, writer Martha Ross
http://www.diablomag.com/D-blog/Best-Of-Editor-Picks/March-2009/The-Lemon-Lady-of-Contra-Costa/

February - April 2009 - www.CLAYCORD.com - Lemon Lady of Claycord http://claycord.blogspot.com/search/label/Lemon%20Lady%20of%20CLAYCORD

April 21, 2009 - LOCAL LEMON LADY SEEKS FELLOW LEMON LADY
March 19, 2009 - TALK ABOUT GARDENING ON CLAYCORD.com
March 18, 2009 - THE "LEMON LADY OF CLAYCORD" ON KGO RADIO
February 27, 2009 - THE LEMON LADY OF CLAYCORD, STILL PICKIN'
February 19, 2009 - ANNA DOES IT AGAIN, OVER 450-LBS COLLECTED
February 10, 2009 - CLAYCORDIANS WHO CARE ABOUT CLAYCORDIANS

February 16, 2009 - www.MisterWriter.com, writer Andre' Gensburger http://ccexm.blogspot.com/2009/02/feeding-hungry-with-leftover-fruit-well.html

February 16, 2009 - Soccer Mom news blog, Local Hero: Clayton Woman http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2009/02/local-hero-clayton-woman-finds-simple.html

January 23, 2009 - The Clayton Pioneer Newspaper article, scroll to page 9 http://www.claytonpioneer.com/CEPDFS/2009_Clayton_Pioneer_0123.pdf

My little pumpkin pie, the apple of my eye...

Contra Costa Times, Saturday, July 18, 2009...

Please be sure to read the Contra Costa Times newspaper on Saturday, July 18, 2009. Reporter Laura Casey visited The Lemon Lady at the Children's Community Garden in Concord, and another location to harvest fresh peaches for donation to the local food pantries.

Happy Gardening and Sweet Lemonade!

Anna, The Lemon Lady...Delivering produce to those who need it most!

June 10, 2009 - THE LEMON LADY OF CLAYCORD ON ABC7 NEWS
February - June 2009 - www.CLAYCORD.com - Lemon Lady of Claycord
http://claycord.blogspot.com/search/label/Lemon%20Lady%20of%20CLAYCORD

June 2009 - The Concordian Newspaper
What goes around comes around, especially with fruit and food
Page 18, By Anna Chan, Special To The Concordian
http://www.myconcordian.com/Issues/2009%20June/index.html

May 12, 2009 - CBS 5 Eye on Blogs
Lemon Lady Freshens Up Food Banks by Brittney Gilbert
http://cbslocalblogs.prospero.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=kpix_eyeonblogs&entry=5553

April 26, 2009 - Crazy In Suburbia, Soccer Mom News blog
The Lemon Lady of Clayton starts her own blog
http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2009/04/lemon-lady-of-clayton-starts-her-own.html

The very beginning...from the first tree to the first three tons!
http://thelemonlady.blogspot.com/2009/04/lemon-lady-fruit-harvesting-by-anna_23.html

Edible East Bay Magazine, Anna, The Lemon Lady page 7...

Thank you Cheryl Angelina Koehler for including a last minute mention of The Lemon Lady in your Summer 2009 print edition, Edible East Bay Magazine. This was very kind of you to promote awareness that fresh produce is welcome at County Food Banks and local food pantries. In Contra Costa County, please visit Food Bank of Contra Costa And Solano.

Readers may find a complimentary issue of Edible East Bay at many fine merchants or local Farmers' Markets information table.

Please CLICK HERE to read page 7 in the Events Calendar for Anna Chan, The Lemon Lady.

Whenever there’s too much produce

Donate it to the food banks

Meet Anna Chan, The Lemon Lady of Claycord (Clayton and Concord), a one-woman campaign against hunger. “I have walked door-to-door since mid-February speaking with fruit tree owners in my community, and personally delivering over 3,500 pounds of fresh citrus to Salvation Army on Clayton Road, and to Monument Crisis Center, near Costco,” She says. You can find out how to join her by emailing AnnaAndAva@gmail.com or calling 510.406.1625

One person can make a difference...

"One person can make a difference and every person should try."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy