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,...
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...
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.
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.
This Foundation was created in August 2015. We are exploring the focus for this Foundation and we are currently considering the nexus of climate and sustainable agriculture and related policies.
Foundations support urban farms and gardens and related programs for a variety of reasons – youth development, food access, environmental protection, and more – but no matter what the program goal, foundations want to see their grantees’ programs succeed. Without the land they depend on, none of these urban agriculture programs can continue, yet the obstacles to obtaining secure land (i.e. permanent protection of the resource) and secure tenure (i.e. assured access to the land) are seldom discussed.
A collection of news and blog articles from April to June, 2015
A collection of resources and announcements from April to June, 2015
Below is a recording from a CFF-sponsored briefing that took place in April, 2015, called Approaches to Farmland Preservation in the Northeast (see original promotions at the link). The video begins with introductions of everyone in the room and their...
