From 7:45 to 8:45 a.m., folks drop off their harvest and church members give it away.

"One of the nice things about the church is they say,'Zebulon is our neighborhood,' says Kay Whatley, whose brainchild Grow and Share works with the church to get food to the hungry. "They might know of someone who just lost a job. It's the community that's growing the food, benefiting from the food."

Grow and Share is an organization that gives plants to gardeners who promise to give part of their harvest to others. Gardeners are given lists of Food banks and pantries in the area that distribute produce. Pilot Baptist Church's farm stand is one of those.

"I had talked with some guys in our church at a Sunday School dinner about the possibilities of us growing a garden at church and giving away the food," said Jan Alford. "About a week later, someone contacted our chairman of the deacons and told him about Grow and Share."

"Rather than grow our own garden, we decided to work with them and be a distribution site," he said.

Church members have embraced the plan. Several people have designated parts of their garden toward the Grow and Share project. KayWhatley calls on her extensive e-mail list and gets pickers who gather produce for the Pilot Baptist Church farm stand.

By 10 a.m. on Saturdays, what food is left is taken to a soup kitchen or to families in need, said Alford.

Kay Whatley said the Grow and Share and Pilot Baptist Church venture was a good marriage.

"We're providing the hands to pick the food," said KayWhatley. "They're making sure they have the food to distribute each week and the people to pass it out."