The Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund provides monthlong paid apprenticeships for young adults to live on sustainable farms — to work, learn, and be inspired to create change in their communities. Our farms range from urban to rural; they produce cheese,...
Food System Focus Area: Farm to Institution
Industrial Arts Brewing Company – Landscape Lager Series
Since its inception in 2018, Industrial Arts Brewing Company has donated 100% of the profits from the Landscape Lager Series to nonprofit organizations focused on the environmental and agricultural health of communities in the Hudson Valley and beyond. The Landscape...
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
We build unique partnerships to support innovative science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. With 9.7 billion people projected to populate the world by 2050, our food system must evolve. Sustainably nourishing the growing global community demands transformative discoveries from...
Recap: Food Distribution and Infrastructure in the South Bronx
On September 13th, CFF and Philanthropy New York hosted a day-long Food Distribution and Infrastructure Tour of the South Bronx to learn about some of the current and future food distribution systems utilized in NYC, as well as other infrastructure projects and small-scale supply chain models. Thirty-five funders participated in the bus tour that included four stops and seven organizations working in the Hunts Point and Bronx River sections of the South Bronx.
Food Distribution and Infrastructure in the South Bronx, 9/13
Last summer CFF organized a tour of the South Bronx to visit organizations working on urban agriculture and food access projects. This tour will focus on food distribution and infrastructure, from large regional-scale developments to creative edible landscaping and community-based supply chain projects
Recap: Growing the Farm to Institution Movement
On September 28, CFF partnered with the NYS Health Foundation and Philanthropy New York to host a meeting titled Growing the Farm to Institution Movement: From Farm to Plate. You can find a video recording of the briefing below.
Bronx Regional Food Hub Becoming Reality
On Thursday August 11th, Governor Cuomo held an event at the Food Distribution Center in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx to announce, among other things, the funds to help create a Greenmarket Regional Food Hub in the same Hunts Point neighborhood.
Growing the Farm to Institution Movement: From Farm to Plate, 9/28
This briefing will bring together leaders working to significantly expand the volume of fruits, vegetables and other foods grown by local farmers that are served in schools, senior centers, daycare programs and other community institutions. We will highlight the importance of institutional feeding programs to local economies and public health, highlight barriers to increasing the volume of local food served in institutions, and identify opportunities to scale up this important movement for the benefit all New Yorkers.
Video: Jul 22nd NYC Regional Food Hub briefing
Below is a recording from a CFF-sponsored briefing that took place in July, 2015, called Building Our Regional Food Economy: Creating a Regional Food Hub in NYC. Only the slides and audio were recorded, so you will not see the...
Spring 2015 News Roundup
A collection of news and blog articles from April to June, 2015