{"id":393374,"date":"2026-07-31T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:45:08","slug":"weekend-gardener-the-12th-can-food-pantry-at-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393374\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Gardener: The 12th Can food pantry at Texas A&#038;M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; There\u2019s a free resource at Texas A&amp;M that helps tackle food insecurity across campus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe 12th Can is Texas A&amp;M\u2019s student-run on campus food pantry,\u201d said Anahi Gallegos, <a href=\"https:\/\/12thcan.tamu.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/12thcan.tamu.edu\/\">The 12th Can <\/a>associate director. \u201cWe service all Texas A&amp;M staff, faculty and students no matter the income or cost.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gallegos said they typically serve around 4,000 to 5,000 people each year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt can get up to 11,000 if you count repeat visits from people who might be a little more food insecure,\u201d said Gallegos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pantry is open once a month during the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On August 19, the pantry will be open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In September, it will go back to being open every other Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 12th Can is located at 330 Agronomy Rd. in College Station. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Donation information for The 12th Can, the food pantry at Texas A&amp;M.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IY7UXFAPBFDFZDJ5YMCES5TJSI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1218\" \/>Donation information for The 12th Can, the food pantry at Texas A&amp;M.(KBTX)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; There\u2019s a free resource at Texas A&amp;M that helps tackle food insecurity across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-393374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}