by admin | Sep 10, 2014 | Past Events
A list of past events sponsored Community Food Funders
by Adam Liebowitz | Jul 15, 2014 | Past Events
By the spring of 2013, our regional food system had been tested to its max with historic storms the previous two years. Hurricane Irene in 2011 devastated countless acres and farms in the Hudson Valley and surrounding areas, damaging crops at the peak of the...
by Adam Liebowitz | Jul 1, 2014 | Literature, News, Past Events, Resources
A new report from the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center and Brandworkers, Feeding New York: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers in New York City’s Food Manufacturing Industry, is the first-ever report detailing worker’s experiences...
by Adam Liebowitz | May 15, 2014 | News, Past Events
On May 8th, about 50 CFF members and some of our partners in the field and the public sector got together at Roosevelt House at Hunter College for the 2nd Annual CFF Gathering. Tasty locally-sourced drinks and appetizers were supplied by Great Performances while...
by Adam Liebowitz | Apr 30, 2014 | Films & Video, Past Events, Resources
The Food Chain Workers Working Group of CFF hosted a briefing on April 24th about the movie Food Chains, in advance of its US premier the following weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival and national release in the fall. Sanjay Rawal, the film’s director, was joined by...
by John Eastman | Mar 1, 2014 | Films & Video, News, Past Events
I attended the February 11, 2014, CFF Urban Agriculture Working Group briefing about the forthcoming book–Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City–and found the afternoon to be extremely interesting, engaging, and...