In a signature partnership with BGSU Dining, the Falcon Food Pantry provides complete frozen meals every week through a program that simultaneously addresses food insecurity and food waste on campus. Interns pack up cooked, untouched food from Social House and prepare meals that are frozen in reusable containers and then brought to the Falcon Food Pantry. Options change weekly but typically include a starch, protein and vegetable.

Feed More Waste Less was developed by Intern Katie Dietz in Fall 2023 as a BGSU Honors Project and continues today.

The Falcon Food Pantry is also home to a Little Free Library called Kenna's Growing Collection that started in Spring 2026!

Pantry Intern McKenna has been a lifelong reader, but after being diagnosed in high school with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye condition, reading physical books has grown more difficult. McKenna wanted their books to go to a good cause, and as a pantry intern, they pitched the idea to create a Little Free Library so that students could give/take/share books. McKenna started the library by donating their beloved collection of books so others could experience the same joy. Pantry Intern Elena, an art major, used her talents to paint the library, too!

Everyone is welcome to donate books or take a book!

The Falcon Food Pantry has introduced a revolving exhbit on Food Insecurity Across Time and Space hosted on the first floor of the Jerome Library. The first exhbit opening in Spring of 2026 focuses on our local history of food insecurity between 1850 and 1900 while The Great Black Swamp was being drained. 

Pantry Intern Ashton pulled from their love of history and interest in historic preservation to curate the exhbit and research that coinsides with it. This project was done alongside the Center for Undergraduate Research, and a Givens Felllowship experience in the United Kingdom through and analysis of interpretive education in many of Londons museums.

Everyone is encouraged to view this exhbit, and future ones that interns will curate to showcase the history of food insecurity across the globe.