Mar 2, 2017 | Food for Thought
Our March Member Spotlight is the Cooperstown Farmers’ Market located in Cooperstown, NY. The Market is a program of Otsego 2000, a non-profit, “founded in 1981 to protect the environmental, agricultural, scenic, cultural and historic resources of the Otsego Lake...
Feb 2, 2017 | Food for Thought
The Food and Health Network of South Central NY collaborated with the Rural Health Service Corps and Food Bank of the Southern Tier Speakers Bureau to coordinate a successful poverty simulation with a combined theme of food and racial justice. The simulation was held...
Feb 2, 2017 | Food for Thought
Our Member Spotlight for the month of February is the Chenango County Department of Public Health. Tom Lewis, FaHN VISTA, sat down with Christina Arnold, a Health Educator with the Department of Public Health, at her office in Norwich, NY to learn more about the work...
Jan 6, 2017 | Food for Thought
Throughout December, FaHN partnered with school districts across Broome and Tioga counties to hold taste tests featuring a fall kale salad made from local ingredients for students to sample during lunch in their school cafeterias. The simple salad included apples,...
Jan 5, 2017 | Food for Thought
Our Farm Sponsor Spotlight is Shared Roots Farm in McGraw, NY. Tom Lewis, FaHN VISTA, spoke with Stephanie Roberts, a co-owner of the farm along with Bret Morris, to learn about the background of the farm and her thoughts on farming. On the farm’s background: ...
Dec 5, 2016 | Food for Thought
FaHN VISTA, Tom Lewis attended the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group’s (NESAWG) It Takes a Region conference in Hartford, CT on November 11th. Here are his reflections from that day: Attending the It Takes a Region conference was certainly a...
