Volunteers gather food from Green Bag drives in Southern Oregon, part of the Medford Food Project.

Place your green bag on your front porch Saturday to help feed hungry people in Southern Oregon.

Every two months — the second Saturday of every even-numbered month — people signed up with the Medford Food Project and other Neighborhood Food Project chapters in Talent, Phoenix, Ashland and elsewhere, place nonperishable food items into the bags. Neighborhood volunteers pick up the bags and take them to local food pantries, who distribute the food to local families.

Green bag pickups occur in Medford, Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Central Point and Eagle Point.

Donations can be made directly to a local food project in your area by going online: ashlandfoodproject.com, medfordfoodproject.com, talentfoodproject.org, phoenixfoodproject.org, eaglepointfoodproject.com and gpfoodproject.com (Grants Pass).

Items needed by food banks include cereal, soups, canned meat, canned fruit, cooking oil, canned tuna, canned beans, dried beans, pinto beans, canned corn, masa, brown rice, long grain white rice, stewed tomatoes, fruit cocktail, side dishes, soy milk, canned milk, texturized vegetable protein, pasta, Hamburger Helper and Rice-a-Roni.

Donations via checks can be mailed to Neighborhood Food Project, P.O. Box 1089, Ashland, OR 97520. Donors should specify which community they’d like their money to go to. For more information on the Neighborhood Food Project, see https://neighborhoodfoodproject.org.