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Ending Hunger through Community Food Organizing

Hunger Action Network is providing support to diverse community food projects throughout New York State. Community/rooftop/container gardens, "Grow an Extra Row" campaigns and "Seed and Seedling Distribution" programs are all projects that improve a community’s access to healthy food. If you are a food program provider and are struggling to meet the needs of your guests, these types of projects can help. Most importantly, they may provide a means of fulfilling peoples’ food needs without having to rely on emergency food sources.
In addition to the food growing projects introduced above, many communities also focus on strengthening their local food system. The goals of a localized food system include making food more nutritious, affordable, and accessible to community residents while strengthening the local economy and small farms producing the food. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Farmers’ Markets are prime examples of this, offering New Yorkers produce, usually organic, right out of the fields at prices not marked up by a distributor or grocery store. In the winter when fewer local foods are available, Food Buying Clubs are a great option for bringing a variety of nutritious food to your neighborhood at wholesale prices.

Click on the links below for more resources, or contact us at Hunger Action.

The Scoop on Innovative Food Projects - a downloadable overview of community food projects.

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Community Food News Updates on nutrition, innovative food projects, and the state of hunger in New York. The Community Food News is sent to almost 3,000 Emergency Food Programs throughout the state free of charge.

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