This weekend, Kitty Seelig, our Executive Director, had the privilege of attending The People’s Food Summit at Riverside Park. She participated in a strategic planning session with people divided into various topic areas. Subjects covered included: Urban Agriculture, Transportation, Health and…

I can attest to the pleasure and pain that are the opposite sides of the gardening coin. For community gardens to be successful in their rugged urban environments — to say nothing of making more than a minor contribution to…

“I have found the world kinder than I expected, but less just,” Samuel Johnson is said to have remarked. The same might be said of the popular response to poverty and hunger in America. It, too, is kinder but less…

On Thursday, October 22nd, Kitty Seelig (Executive Director) and Bruce Garrison (President of the Board) were invited to give a presentation on Hunger and ways that we can close the Food Gap in our society and in our local situation.…

Hunger — the painful sensation that someone feels on a regular basis due to lack of food — is a relatively rare phenomenon in America today, but it nevertheless afflicts a small number of U.S. residents on an intermittent basis.…