Hours and Location
401 South Commercial Avenue
Farmington, NM 87401
505-326-3770
HOURS: Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Early closure at 1:00 p.m. on the last business day of each month.
Closed Holidays! Follow us on Facebook for updates on closings.
Call 505-326-3770 for other distribution sites in San Juan County & Northwest New Mexico
The ECHO Inc. Food Bank
The ECHO Food Bank collects, stores, and processes food to distribute to low-income individuals. Food is obtained from manufacturers, farmers, distributors, grocers, community food drives, and state and national food bank networks in order to make it available to hungry people in Northwest New Mexico.
New Mexico is ranked 8th in the nation in food insecurity (not knowing where your next meal will come from). 21% of New Mexico residents face food insecurity, and a closer look at that number shows that 1-in-4 children and 1-in-6 adults do not know where their next meal will come from.
ECHO Food Bank collects, stores and processes food for distribution to low-income individuals. Food is received by producers, farmers, distributors, grocers, community food companies, and networks of state and national food banks to make it available to the hungry in Northwestern New Mexico.
Learn how to host a Food Drive and Volunteer by clicking Get Involved.
ECHO Food Programs:
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP USDA foods) provides monthly surplus USDA commodity foods for income-qualified New Mexico households and select non-profit hunger relief organizations.
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) “Free Food For Seniors” provides free monthly nutritious food, recipes, basic nutrition information, and referrals to other programs for income-qualified New Mexico resident seniors 60 years and up.
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program for seniors is also available in our Albuquerque facility at 300 Menaul NW #226, 87107. Call 505-242-6777 for more information.
The Agency Surplus Program (ASP) provides both food and non-food items at or below cost to other non-profit feeding programs.
The Food and Nutrition program(FaN) provides special diet boxes each month to individuals on specially prescribed diets (such as medically fragile, diabetes, etc.) who cannot qualify for other programs.
Holiday Food Box Distribution: See our Facebook Page or contact ECHO staff for more information.
The Meals For Kids Backpack Program provides individually packaged, kid-friendly foods in nondescript backpacks to area Elementary School Food Pantries. School personnel determine children at risk for returning home to empty pantries and send the food home with information on family assistance programs.
ECHO Volunteer and Work Programs:
Volunteer Program (VIP) provides on the job training to individuals 17 years or older (if unaccompanied by an adult). VIP is a safe, fun, supportive environment for adults to learn skills prior to re-entering the job market, for community-minded families and individuals, for corporate groups looking for ways to serve the community while they work on team building skills, for college and school clubs and classes, scouts, church youth groups, and other civic clubs. Click HERE to fill out a volunteer form
Community Service Worker Program (CSWP) provides a volunteer job site for youth (17 years or older) and adults who need to satisfy pre-sentencing, court mandated, or rehabilitation ordered community service hours.
Job Site Programs are provided in cooperation with a number of local job training programs for special needs youth and adults.