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From food drives to 5ks, there is an event for you!
Throughout the year, the Extra Table team hosts events across the state to raise funds and awareness.
We have fun while remaining mission-focused.
ice storm response
EXTRA FULL MEAL KIT
PACKING EVENT
Friday, February 6 | 1:00 PM
Mississippi Trade Mart, Hall B
Jackson, MS
All ages and abilities welcome.
Extra Table FEEDS remains firmly mission focused: getting nutritious food to Mississippians who need it most.
When the roads are not passable, the temps are freezing, and whole cities are dark, Extra Table FEEDS doubles down.
Because our team isn’t just staff—it’s you, too, feeding our hungry neighbors!
Natural disaster response is not a normal budget line for us. Your contribution will go directly toward getting Extra Full Red Beans and Rice Meal Kits into the communities hardest hit by the winter storm—places where pantries are closed and access to food is limited or nonexistent. Extra Full is Mississippi’s first one-pot meal, a shelf-stable, four-serving red beans and rice kit made with Two Brooks Delta-grown rice, no-soak beans, and a vitamin-rich blend designed to address nutritional gaps in food-insecure households. Ready in just 30 minutes with only water, Extra Full provides a complete protein with no meat required.
Extra Full is the meal you can make possible.
And that’s why, even in the coldest moments, Mississippi leads with helping hands.
Text 'ICESTORM' to 44321 or click here to make a donation to support Extra Table FEEDS Ice Storm Response.
March of the mayors
2026 DATES
Collection starts: January 20
Box Packing Week: March 2-6
5 DAYS, 5 REGIONS, AND
FIFTY FIVE+ MAYORS
One of Extra Table’s premiere annual programs is March of the Mayors. Driven by the mayors of more than 55 cities across Mississippi, March of the Mayors is a statewide canned food drive. Broken into five regions (The Coast, the Pine Belt, the Jackson Metro area, the Mississippi Delta, and North Mississippi area), each participating city will begin collecting a particular food item on January 26, 2026, and collection runs through February 27. The following week, Extra Table will host five food-box packing parties in five cities.
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Delta: March 2
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North East MS: march 3
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Jackson Metro: march 4
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Pinebelt: march 5
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coast: march 6
March of the Mayors is a fun way to help engage the local community while fighting hunger in our own backyards. It’s a canned food drive, a fundraiser and ‘Mississippi’s Largest Food Box Packing Party’ complete with Moon Pies, Mardi Gras beads, hundreds of volunteers and a jazzy second line with a mission to feed hungry Mississippians! At the end of each regional food box packing party, food collected and packed is picked up by the local food pantries of each participating city.
MOON PIES, MARDI GRAS BEADS, AND VOLUNTEERS ALL ROLLED INTO ONE JAZZY SECOND LINE WITH A MISSION TO FEED HUNGRY MISSISSIPPIANS!
Pallet Packing
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It's time to PALLET PACK!
and we are at a TEMPORARY LOCATION
STRICKLAND'S FURNITURE
6431 US HIGHWAY 49
HATTIESBURG
(behind Dairy Queen and across from Hattiesburg Cycles)
Please click the link below to RSVP if you can attend and bring a friend!
Come one, come all — all ages and abilities are welcome.
Don’t forget to wear closed-toe shoes!
For more information, email Martha at martha@extratable.org or shoot me a text at 601-447-4667.
SEE YOU SUNDAY,
FEBRUARY 15 AT 2PM!
We are so grateful to count on you as a partner in the food fight!
Breaking out of Hunger concert
Join us for an afternoon of live music and community impact featuring The Parchman Band at the New Sumrall Amphitheater!
RESCHEDULED TO📍 February 22 | 15 Pine Street, Sumrall
Gates open at 12 PM | Music starts at 1 PM
Don’t forget a blanket or lawn chair!
🎟 Admission:
Bring your city’s canned food item OR make a financial contribution to Extra Table for entry!
City Item List 👇
Laurel — 5 oz canned tuna
Hattiesburg — 16 oz peanut butter
McComb — 1 lb spaghetti noodles
Collins — 15 oz canned corn
Petal — 15 oz canned fruit
Ellisville — Granola bars
Bassfield — 16 oz peanut butter
Sumrall — 15 oz canned corn
Magee — 1 lb spaghetti noodles
Columbia — 1 lb bag of dried beans
Sandersville — 15 oz canned green beans
Poplarville — 1 lb bag of rice
Lumberton — 15 oz canned fruit
Purvis — 15 oz canned green beans
Come enjoy great music while helping feed our neighbors! Every item makes a difference 💛
bourbon festival
SAVE THE DATE:
OCTOBER 29, 2026
Mississippi Museum of arT
The Bourbon Festival is a one-night event. General admission is from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., and VIP admission begins at 5:30 p.m.
The VIP tasting showcases an incredible flight of bourbons selected by Jamie Farris, owner of Lincoln Road Package Store.
All ticket holders will enjoy an evening of big entertainment with a vast array of bourbons. Jamie and the Lincoln Road Package team will present over 125 bourbons for tasting and a cocktail competition featuring Old Soul bourbon poured by some of the area’s favorite bartenders.
Plan on staying for a while. Artist Adam Trest will be painting live. Don’t miss your chance to bid on his unique creation, which will be auctioned off to the highest bidder at the night's end! There will be music, stilt walkers, jugglers, socializing, and a good time for all.
Tickets GO ON SALE AUGUST 1
Empty bowls
Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger. The 8th Annual Extra Table Empty Bowls fundraiser will be held at Delta Arts Alliance, 104 S. Court Street in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Ticketed patrons receive a delicious meal of soup, bread, dessert and a drink. Patrons also take home a one-of-a-kind handcrafted bowl by a Delta State University ceramic student or a Delta potter as a reminder of those hungry in our communities whose bowls are empty.
Funds raised from this event will provide food to Delta-area food pantries and soup kitchens, including Caring Hands (Itta Bena), Clarksdale Care Station, Hearty Helpings Food Pantry (Greenville), Lexington Food Pantry, Helping Hands (Belzoni), Helping Hands (Cleveland), Robert Neil Food Pantry (Charleston), St. Vincent De Paul (Greenville), Tutwiler Community Education Center, and the Statesman’s Shelf (on the campus of Delta State University).
TICKETS GO ON SALE AUGUST 1