NYC Regional Food Hub Briefing, 7/22
Join us for a funder briefing with GrowNYC to learn about the proposed development of a Greenmarket Regional Food Hub in the Bronx. This large-scale facility will provide a home for Greenmarket Co., space for an expanded wholesale farmers market, a light food processing center to prepare local produce for wholesale, and other infrastructure to support local food businesses.
2015 CFF Annual Gathering recap
On May 6th, 2015, about 50 CFF members and some of our partners in the field and the public sector got together at COLORS Restaurant for the 3rd Annual CFF Gathering. Locally-sourced drinks and appetizers were supplied by COLORS staff while people mingled and...
Video: Apr 29 Farmland Preservation briefing
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 interest in the...
Food System Resiliency, 6/8
Two years ago, CFF helped organize a 3-part breakfast series for funders to examine disruptions in the food system as a result of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy. Now, CFF is working with our former panelists and other experts to compile the lessons learned from that original series, update the work that has taken place in the interim, and look more seriously at what it would mean to seriously address the issues that were raised.
Connecticut Food Funders Gathering, 5/28
The next gathering of CT-based food funders has been scheduled, and will once again happen under the framework of the Connecticut Food Systems Alliance