Free Summer Meals for Kids in Lowell, NC

3 summer 2026 meal sites in Lowell, with the sponsor, address, dates and meal times each one published to USDA.

These are last summer's sites

Need food for your kids now? Call the USDA National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-HUNGRY (1-866-348-6479), Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern, or check the official USDA Summer Meals Site Finder. The list below is the summer 2026 season, which ended on September 30, 2026. These sites are not listed as open now, and the dates and meal times are from last summer, not a schedule for this year or next summer. Sites for the next summer are usually announced in the spring.

All sites (3) · Eat on-site (2) · Meals to go (1)

Eat on-site · Open to all kids

Calvary Baptist Church

120 Branch Street, Lowell, NC 28098

Sponsor: Gaston County Schools · Summer Food Service Program

Ran Jun 1 to Jul 30, 2026, Mon to Fri: Breakfast 9:00am-9:15am, Lunch 11:30am-11:55am

Site phone: (704) 842-0741

Eat on-site · Open to all kids · Mobile stop

Harold Rankin Park

519 Park Circle, Lowell, NC 28098

Sponsor: Gaston County Schools · Summer Food Service Program

Ran Jun 1 to Jul 30, 2026, Mon to Thu: Lunch 11:00am-12:00pm

Site phone: (704) 214-2048

Meals to go · Open to all kids

NCM Lowell ES

1500 Power Drive, Meal pick up 4 or 7 day bundles on 6/8,6/15,6/22,7/6,7/13,7/20,7/27, Lowell, NC 28098

Sponsor: Gaston County Schools · Summer Food Service Program

Ran Jun 9 to Aug 3, 2026, Mon: Breakfast 3:00pm-4:30pm, Lunch 3:00pm-4:30pm
Meals will be held under refrigeration at Central Kitchen and loaded into refrigerated trucks for distribution to the site. Bundles will include 4 or 7 days' worth of meals that will include instructions for heating if necessary and for storing the cold and frozen items.

Site phone: (704) 418-8727

SUN Bucks in North Carolina

USDA's 2026 map showed North Carolina as participating in SUN Bucks (Summer EBT). See the North Carolina details.

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Source: USDA Food and Nutrition Administration Summer Meals Site Finder (public data layer), a list that local sponsors give to state agencies and states submit to USDA. Season 2026, serving dates Apr 1, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026, data last updated by USDA Sep 9, 2026. We show spellings, dates, days, meal times, addresses and phone numbers as published and do not check them; late changes may be missing. SUN Bucks (Summer EBT) status is from USDA's participation page, last updated Aug 14, 2026. Sites that deliver meals, closed sites and sites that are not open to the public are not listed, and Puerto Rico and the other territories are not included here. To report a wrong listing, contact your state agency. A listing is not an endorsement.