Volunteers with the University of South Carolina’s Feed the Flock program on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, package leftovers from weekend homecoming celebrations to feed students in need on the school’s Columbia campus. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
COLUMBIA — Dozens of volunteers at the University of South Carolina on Tuesday packaged hundreds of homecoming weekend leftovers for students unable to afford a meal plan as part of a new and growing program called Feed the Flock.
Since the federal grant-funded program started last spring, participants have wrapped up 5,000 meals for students struggling with food insecurity, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture defines as limited or uncertain availability of nutritional things to eat…