Save the date for New York State anti-hunger conference

Mark your calendars – Hunger Solutions New York will be holding a New York State Anti-Hunger Conference on Thursday, May 7th, 2015. This one-day conference will take place at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, New York, and will feature discussions and workshops on anti-hunger efforts in New York State. Please join us for this informative day!

Cornell farmer programs aid veterans

ITHACA, N.Y. — A well-established agricultural outreach effort run by Cornell University is taking on a new mission designed in part to help returning veterans find futures in farming, thanks to a grant announced today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Northeast Beginning Farmer Proje...

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Dairy industry promotes benefits of milk

The milk industry is fed up with all the sourness over dairy.

As Americans continue turning away from milk, an industry group is pushing back at its critics with a social media campaign trumpeting the benefits of milk. The association says it needs to act because attitudes about milk are deteriorating more rapidly, with vegan groups, non-dairy competitors and other perceived enemies getting louder online.

Read the full story here:  Milk Industry Fights Back

Can urban foraging feed poor people?

What if we connected the people most in need of healthy food with the expensive, nutrient-dense greens that just happen to be growing between the cracks in their driveways? A project at UC Berkeley is testing out this idea. Philip Stark, chair of the Berkeley statistics department, has organized a team of researchers to map edible plants in low-income neighborhoods,...

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Join us for a movie night next week!

A retirement party back in Connecticut

On Thursday evening, about 200 people gathered in the Foodshare distribution center for a farewell event.  The food was great, the music was good, the speeches were very touching, and they presented me with a beautiful hand-carved walking stick, a fitting memento of my time at Foodshare.

Best of all, the corporate sponsors, those who attended, and all those who donated raised $130,000 for Foodshare. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone involved!

And for all my North Country friends...may we have a similarly successful event in 10 or 15 years upon my second retirement from GardenShare!

Gloria

Asking candidates to address their priorities around poverty

More than 100 Christian faith leaders, under the umbrella organization “Circle of Protection,” are inviting 2016 presidential candidates to submit a three-minute video which outlines their poverty priorities if elected to the White House. “The state of the union is not good if you’re poor,” said Rev. Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, in a news conference announcing the challenge. “It’s not good if you’re a low-income family.” News conference participants noted that churches and charities alone cannot assist the 45.3 million poor Americans.

Faith leaders call for focus on poverty in 2016 election – Catholic Courier, January 16, 2015