PR of Bootorab Charity. The Little Free Pantry in Fayetteville, Arkansas gives the community a place to donate food and supplies to people in need. The concept is simple: Anyone may place and take items inside the pantry at any time — and that’s it. Huffingtonpost reports, Jessica McClard, 41, was inspired to build The Little Free Pantry after she noticed Little Free Libraries popping up everywhere in her town of Fayetteville. As a jogger, she’d frequently stop at the Little Free Libraries to check out the books that were dropped off, and as her stops became more frequent, she started thinking about why she and others were so drawn to them. “My feeling is little free structures both create space for neighborliness and address social problems,” McClard told The Huffington Post. She then wondered if a similar concept could address other social problems. Then it dawned on her: “Books nourish. Food nourishes,” she told HuffPost. And the idea to build a little free pantry stocked with food and other items was born. Since the box is also in close proximity to an elementary school, she also likes to stock it with supplies and other goodies for kids.