Food for All
Free Community Food Markets in Summit County, Colorado
The high cost of living makes Summit County a difficult place to live and raise a family. Our Community Food Markets provide options for fresh, healthy, and nutritious food; while also helping families stretch their budgets, save, and connect. We encourage all residents to visit our Community Food Markets once a week to receive up to $200 worth of groceries – and put those hundreds of dollars in food savings each month towards rent or other expenses. In addition, families can combine food savings with other resources like WIC & SNAP.
No-cost Groceries, Zero Barriers, and Fresh Food! FIRC addresses issues around food insecurity, food equity, food waste and resource sharing, and broad scale food systems change in Summit County. Our Community Food Markets provide access to no-cost groceries, household and hygiene items, and diapers and wipes. Through FIRC’s Food Equity Coalition, we reimagined our food distribution sites to be a welcoming place for the community. Shoppers do not need any identification, paperwork, or income information to access their choice of fresh food products including produce, dairy, meat, and grains – as well as shelf-stable pantry items and other products. We are community informed, and community designed. We are based in food and cultural justice, which drives important systems change! Come shop with us!
News & Updates
→ View our 2022 Holiday Food Calendar Here!
→ Please scroll down and review our Summit County Food Resource Calendar.
Summit County Food Resource Calendar
We want to thank our Food Equity Coalition (FEC) members for taking the time to participate in the betterment of our food services. These beautiful members of our community join in recurring meetings to experience and evaluate FIRC’s efforts to provide our community with healthy and nutritious food in Dillon and Breckenridge, CO. Thanks to their feedback, we have put together this community calendar to keep all food resources in Summit County easily accessible in one place.
Do you want to share our calendar?
- Summit County Resource Calendar (ENG)
- Calendario de Recursos de Comida en el condado de Summit (SPA)
- Bilingual Calendar
Summit County’s food system.
Food Bank of the Rockies Mobile Pantries In partnership with Smart Bellies hosts more than 70 monthly distributions at 70-plus unique sites including Summit County. The help distributed by the mobile food pantry is 8-15 items including refrigerated and frozen products, protein, canned goods, fresh produce, and dairy.
LOCATION:
0222 County Shops Rd, Frisco, CO 80443.
Days/Times:
4th Thursday of the month starting at 10 AM
Please call 970-368-2848 for more information.
Please Consider Volunteering
Volunteers keep our markets and thrift store open, our community fed and big projects and events running.
We’ve introduced a new tool to make signing up easier and more user-friendly. We greatly appreciate your support and understanding during these challenging COVID times. Please check back frequently as shifts pop up due to cancellations or as new opportunities arise.
If you are interested in helping at the food market, sign up online by clicking the button below or email foodmarket@summitfirc.org.
FIRC Community Food Markets
Our free, fresh food markets are available for everyone in our community. We provide safe and friendly drive or walk-through services. By utilizing the markets, a family of 3 can save up to $700 a month and then apply those savings to health care or housing costs. Our markets offer fresh produce, eggs, dairy, and meat from local producers in addition to non-perishable items.
Breckenridge Community Food Market
Address & Directions: 1745 Airport Road, Breckenridge, CO 80424
Across the street from FIRC’s Breckenridge Administrative Office. Back of the building of FIRC’s Summit Thrift & Treasure thrift store. Located 50 feet from the Airport Auto Repair Freeride Bus Stop on the Yellow Route.
Days/Times:
Wednesday 12:00 – 6:00 PM
Dillon Community Food Market
Address & Directions: 340 Fiedler Avenue, Dillon CO 80435 (former location of Dillon Thrift & Treasure store).
Days/Times:
Tuesday 11:00 – 6:00 PM
Thursday 11:00 – 4:00 PM
Food Donations
We welcome donations of NON-EXPIRED, non-perishable items. We also appreciate reusable grocery bags and egg cartons in good condition. If staff is not on-site, there are large, brown donation bins where products may be left.
- Breckenridge (1745 Airport Road)
- Silverthorne (251 W. 4th Street)
- Dillon (340 Fiedler Ave.)
Most requested items: short-cut pasta (elbow, penne, bow tie, rigatoni), spaghetti sauce, juice (family size no individual boxes), canned salmon, reusable grocery bags.
Other needed items: baking items (flour; sugar; cake, cookie, brownie mixes, pancake mix; oil), condiments in plastic squeeze tubes (mayo, ketchup, mustard, ranch), salt & pepper.
Items must be unopened and not past their expiration dates. Thank you!