In this vlog, Victor Justin Rhodes (Speaker B) joins volunteers at the Storehouse/Command Central food pantry in Hendersonville, NC, to unload, count, and pack roughly 90‑100 pounds of fresh carrots donated from Sam’s Club. The segment showcases the hands‑on process of loading boxes, labeling them, and preparing them for distribution to local families. Lynn Staggs, the pantry’s executive director, explains the pantry’s workflow: clients receive tickets that correspond to labeled shelves, allowing efficient packing and distribution to about 300‑325 families each month, a significant increase from the pantry’s early days. The volunteers discuss the excitement seniors feel when receiving fresh produce, and Lynn highlights a current grant effort to provide non‑food senior essentials (toilet paper, soap, toothpaste) and to ensure staples like eggs, milk, and bread are affordable for SNAP recipients. Funding challenges are a recurring theme; the pantry relies on continual donations and a Fourth of July matching‑donation campaign to sustain operations. Interspersed personal moments—visits to the dentist, troubleshooting a tractor, and gardening—add a casual, community‑focused atmosphere. The video ends with contact information for the Storehouse and a reminder of the ongoing need for support.
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93 pounds of carrots. That is crazy.
Today we're gonna give away almost 100 pounds of fresh carrots to the local food bank. Let's hear the crunch.
How are you?
Good to see you. All right.
Hey guys, how are you?
So, Lynn, what's your name and where are we right now?
My name is Lynn Staggs and we are at the storehouse at Command Central, and I'm not I'm not in charge.
Who is? These people?
Tom and Linda are in charge.
Okay, good.
Linda's in charge of all the money. Tom's in charge of all the statistics.
Okay. We got some strong guys to put these in there. Oh yes, hi, how you doing? Okay, hey. All right, one gets one end, one gets the other end. There's 90 pounds, so be careful. I was born ready to carry things. Now wait a minute, you're Lynn Staggs, this tag says executive director.
Yes.
But you're not the boss.
Jesus Christ.
Wait a minute. Oh, okay.
I just work here.
Okay. Or is this the boss? Is that your husband?
Okay, the boss.
He's overseeing right there, right there.
Okay, picking up a big load from Sam's Club and good, be back in just a little bit and we will unload it, count it, and put it in boxes and send it out the door as fast as we can.
Okay, good. It's the wrong door, wrong door. Where do the carrots go? You don't get too many carrots.
Yeah, that box that you're about to throw away— let's load them up with carrots.
Oh, okay, thanks guys. So honestly, what's, what's going to be the reaction to fresh produce? Because normally people might be accustomed to more box-processed, quick type of stuff.
They are always very thankful, especially the seniors, because they know how to cook. You know, it's a lost art some days, and when we they get, they get really excited about tomatoes and greens and potatoes and, and things of that nature too.
So cool. Good. About how much carrots you're gonna put in that?
Probably this much.
Just a good bag full. A good bag. And then now where's that going?
Um, anyone who wants it.
Okay. You'll be putting them in these boxes or just take people upon request?
Probably just put them in the boxes and then, you know, when they get here, just—
Nice. Okay, good.
Food can be very difficult to grow. And I mean, we planted— I think we planted because my friend last night was like, why'd you plant 100 feet? And I'm like, I think because I didn't think it was really gonna happen, but then it did. So now we're blessing you guys with it.
But the carrots are awesome looking. Yeah.
Okay, Lan, this says dance like no one's watching. Listen, Rebecca's got it on. You done packing carrots? Possibly. Okay, we got plenty. Okay, good. Come quick, act like you're doing something. Hurry, come on volunteers! Uh, what is y'all's role here today? We're volunteering at a food pantry. Besides lifting carrots, what are you doing?
Packing boxes, and then we're bringing them out to people's cars.
Okay, these boxes that you're packing, if you were receiving those boxes, would you be excited? I would be. Who likes carrots?
I love carrots.
Okay, let's get some carrots going. Can you get some carrots out for these volunteers? We got to feed the help. Everybody wants a carrot. Grab a carrot. Yeah, just grab a carrot. Take a nice little bite out of it. Come on, come on, everybody. Don't be shy. Oh, that's a good carrot right there. Okay. On the carrot scale from 0 to 10, how good is that carrot? Probably a 10.4. Yay! 10.4. Who's next? Yeah. Hear that crunch? That's nice. You ever had such a crunchy carrot? Okay, what's your name? I'm Jack. Are you checking? You forgot for a second. Anybody else?
Where's Will?
I don't see him. Why do you think Will's gonna want a carrot?
He's like a carrot kind of guy.
He's a healthy eater. Okay, what makes someone a carrot kind of guy?
Um, he's tall, probably grew tall, he ate a lot of carrots.
Yeah, you blocking people from getting through here? The truck's coming. The executive director can be in there, but nobody else. There he is, famous Will. Look how tall. Are you in the frame? Hold on. Barely. Okay, there we go. It's a pretty good carrot. Okay, good. Tall Will says it's an amazing carrot. They call him Airball Will.
How many boxes on there?
One of how many boxes?
Um, I'm packing two boxes. Okay, right.
One of two.
One of two on And then 2 of 2. That way if it goes out, you'll know that there's 2 boxes with it.
Why'd you start this?
I got tired of seeing little old ladies struggle for food. I just don't think that food should be an issue in a country this wealthy.
And how many little old ladies have you fed now?
Oh my goodness, I can't count that high. But we're serving around 300, maybe 325. Families per month.
Wow.
When y'all started with us, we were doing like maybe 100 a month, and we thought we were doing something really fantastic. Um, but now we've upped it, doubled it maybe.
Nice.
We've got some peanut butter yesterday.
I see that.
Just a little.
This is so different than when we were doing it. I mean, it was just like the two walls, you know.
And then when we moved over, what we did was we take our ticket, and our ticket lines up with the labels on the shelves, so you just move the box down the table and pack it, and then when you get to the end, it goes on the shelf.
Nice.
I got smarter. We are working on a grant right now to do sustainable goods that are not covered by food stamps for seniors, like toilet paper, dishwashing soap, toothpaste, those kind of things. Um, we'll see if we get that, and we are trying to also make sure that these same seniors can get things that sometimes are cost prohibitive because their food stamp amount is so small. Like trying to make sure that they all get eggs, milk, and bread, and just fresh produce and vegetables.
Eggs, milk, and bread. They're French toast fans.
That's right, I am.
Get everybody their French toast, Lynn.
So what we do is with our beautiful paint tape, we just move everything forward. And so the paint tape's on the fridge Fridges and freezers. You start there and you just move it around the room.
How long will it take you to go through all that, man?
Uh, the 3 days. We don't keep anything past the weekend.
Wow.
And whatever we don't use this week in the office, we send out to other agencies.
What's the biggest struggle that you find in trying to feed so many people?
Having a continual flow of money so we can buy more food. A lot of grants that are available in the community, people want to do a project, know that they've solved the problem, and be done with it. When you're buying food, it's a recurring cost and it's a disposable item. So a lot of grants are not covering food because it's just solving a problem for a time being. And so that is our— it's the money to buy the food.
How are you, uh, how are you fighting that struggle?
I am everywhere that anybody will let me talk, and I'll ask anybody who gives me half a chance. Oh, right now we're in the middle of our Fourth of July campaign, so anything you donate gets matched.
What?
Somebody has stepped up.
I can double your money. How many times are you going to hear that in your life?
$10 becomes $20 because some generous person Okay, so if folks want to know more about the storehouse or contribute to what are they doing, what do they do?
Storehouseonline.org, or come see us at 1049 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville, North Carolina. That is right.
Okay, high five. Okay, see ya.
I guess we don't need to go in the shop.
Next up, the dentist. Now, are you kids excited about going to the dentist? Mr. Brown, you're adorable right now with your sunglasses laid back in the chair. He just loves this. I don't know what it is, but he loves it.
He loves coming to the dentist. He said, um, he's having a fine time. Yeah, he— every time I take any of the other kids, he's like, I want to go, I want to get checked out.
He cries when he can't go.
Yeah.
And it's not that he just wants to go and get the toy and be with us. Because I tried that once.
No, he wants to.
He got disappointed when he didn't get checked out. He got upset. You did it! Thumbs up!
Great job!
Are you excited as Gideon? No. Any cavities?
None. I heard you popped a filling out.
Yeah, I gotta get another filling. That's all right. Well, at least that's the reason for the discomfort. Oh, is that what the problem Yeah, back home. I don't know, not my traditional boots, but don't really need my boots. We're going to get the tractor because we're getting a huge load of feed tomorrow. What you doing, Beauty?
I'm picking some flowers for your dad and Ginger.
Oh, that's nice. You know, we went to try to start the tractor on our way home. It didn't start up, but I think I realized what the problem was now because it wasn't the battery. We tried to jump it, that wasn't it. Look at your sunflowers though, Rebecca. They're so tall. Holy smokes. We thought Will was tall. This, this is tall. Beautiful. Okay, let's go. All right, we're there.
Hey, my goodness, look at there.
Brought you some flowers.
Great day.
Let me take them in.
Well, I just got home from the doctor's office, so—
All right.
Hi, young man.
Get a haircut. How could you tell?
You look so nice.
Do I look like Jonah with my haircut?
You look sharp. You do. What'd the doctors say?
Yeah, how was your doctor? Well, they did an ultrasound or scan on my liver— not liver, kidneys and bladder. And I do have cysts on both kidneys.
Really?
I'm not sure how serious they are. Yeah. The lady that did it said the doctor would give me a report.
Yeah.
Okay.
So.
All right, cross our fingers. Well, what I was thinking was it, was hoping was it, is not it.
Have you checked anything back here?
It looks like we have battery, but it's like, it's like it's not engaging into neutral. I don't know what to do. We have 1,000 pounds of feed coming tomorrow. 2,000 pounds. Two 1,000-pound bags. Maybe there's just enough juice to get the gauges to go on, little lights to come on, but not enough to turn it over. Let's jump start it. All right, I hope that's it, but I don't— unfortunately, I don't think that's it. Can you stand up there, please? Okay, ready?
I know it!
What?
The black one's supposed to be hooked up to a grounder.
No, that's not it. Let it charge a little bit. I'm gonna call Mark Fender, see if he's available. Hey, how you going? How you doing, Mark? How you doing? Good. Hey, I've got this tractor over at my dad's house. Yeah. And I'm over here trying to start it. It's not even turning over, but I don't know. I can come take a look at it when I get in. It's probably an hour or so, hour and a half. Yeah, what do you think? I got a truckload of Feed coming tomorrow, 2,000 pounds. You think there's a pretty good chance we'll get it started tonight? Yeah, I can probably figure out what's going on with it. Okay, because I'd have to call them like within the next 40 minutes, but I bet it's nothing serious. I'm gonna give it one more try. Probably something so simple. Isn't that starting? Yeah. What is going on? Oh my, what a pretty girl! Oh, let's get in. Look, Jonah, they got the tractor. We came to work with them, but they already got it running. How is it running?
Mark's not even here.
He's good. No, he's there. He's over there talking to Papa.
We can go see what he says about it.
Hey, Mark, how you doing? What was wrong? Oh, it wasn't making a connection. Wasn't making a good connection. That's like It's a lot of amps to be going through that little bit. Sorry, it'll start right up. He just took that off and started it. Okay. Yeah, but I checked the starter. Starter was fine.
That's—
the amps is good on it. But okay, good deal. Covering up those where we took the carrots from. I've got it folded the width I think I need it. Now I just got to get it up here and around the corner. What you doing, beautiful one?
I'm trying to trim this, but it's hard. It's got woolly.
How's it going though so far?
It's going okay, except that I just cut this off. Oh, I know, on accident. I thought I was cutting a different branch.
Yeah, how many of those you have though?
A lot. I know.
More than we can handle.
Not too bad.
More than we can handle.
I know, I just hate it because we could give it away if we can't eat it.
Maybe if you got on that end and swung it over. How's that? We harvested these carrots, gave most of them away, covered it up. Gonna do it again with something else. Here's a good shot here before Beauty trims. Yeah, what's the surprise? Oh my gosh, good deal! This is before Beauty prunes, and then this is after. See how much airflow is getting in here? She's taking some away, those useless branches. Thank you, Casey Ospreach, for teaching us how to do that.
