The Garden of Giving is holding a "Fill the Truck" event from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday at the Tractor Supply Company store at 1580 Route 209 in Brodheadsville.

The Garden of Giving is a local nonprofit group that supplies high quality, fresh foods to local food bank facilities and soup kitchens in the area.Supporters of the organizations and community members are encouraged to visit the store Saturday to purchase items from the Garden of Giving's wish list and donate the items to the cause.Needed are supplies for their chickens, which supply eggs to area food banks. The organization has donated 24,000 eggs thus far, says Tammy Graeber, director and founder of The Garden of Giving, which is located in McMichaels, just off Route 715.They are hoping for donations of bags of chicken feed, layer crumbles or pellets, Poultry Grit, oyster shells, Flock Block and pine shavings (100 "flake").The Garden of Giving is always in need of volunteers.For more information call Graeber at 570-402-1282 or by email at

gardenofgiving1@gmail.com or

visitwww.gardenofgiving.org.