Food Future WNY

Meet The New York State Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture at Cornell AgriTech! The Center focuses on: - Pushing entrepreneurs and startups to launch their businesses in New York and commercialize products and services. - Pulling companies into the state by connecting them with innovation resources and economic development partners. - Growing existing food, beverage and agriculture-related companies from across New York State through business mentoring, technical assistance, research, business-to-business partnerships, supply chains and the myriad of resources they need to succeed and thrive. To learn more, visit them online or here on LinkedIn.

ICYMI: A job board curated with ONLY ag-related jobs in Western New York does exist! Find your next job with one of our partners on our website: https://lnkd.in/e3UenmNV

Meet the Good Food Buffalo Coalition! GFBC was launched in 2018 to bring the Good Food Purchasing Program to Western New York. They believe children and all people deserve access to healthy food and food that values workers, animals, and the environment—while lifting local communities out of poverty. The member organizations work collaboratively in a grassroots coalition representing the six values of the Good Food Purchasing Program. Together, they educate the community about the food system, increase awareness about impacts and outputs (as well as economic opportunities of the food system) and advocate for public institutions in Buffalo and Erie County to operate in consideration of public values and ensure that those institutions are accountable to the needs of the people and places they work for and around. To learn more, visit them online.

Meet the flocks of Leigh (first slide) and Kristen (second slide)—two incredible NYSAWG employees who are egg-ceptionally passionate about raising chickens! ?? On this National Egg Day, we celebrate both of them for their dedication to raising these beautiful chickens (and for sharing their delicious eggs in the office).

Rolling out a new product this season? Known for one specific, but want to expand your footprint? Tell our community all about it! As farming season gears up, we want to ensure that our community knows just how many incredible local options there are to shop in WNY—and where to find them. So, go ahead—brag a little in the comments! ??

Meet our partners at Harvest New York! Harvest New York is an innovative Cornell Cooperative Extension team that focuses on?Growing New York's Farm and Food Economy. ? They seek to link consumers and producers in the following project areas: ??Local Food and Supply Chain Management ???Urban Agriculture ??Community Gardens ??Emerging Crops ??Ag Climate Resiliency To learn more, visit them online at harvestny.cornell.edu or on Facebook.

We love our fruits & veggies—and we love them even more when they’re grown locally! Consider shopping with some of our fruit & veggie producing/distributing partners this summer (All WNY, always.): - Light Work Farm - Headwater Foods - BUFFALO GO GREEN INC - Fresh Fix - Kubed Root

Did you hear? ?? The Buffalo Bills Foundation donated $571,600 BUFFALO GO GREEN INC's new Holistic Wellness and Agricultural Education Campus! We are so very proud of our partners at Buffalo Go Green. A very special shoutout to Allison DeHonney, who sits on our Regional Leadership Team. Learn more about their revolutionary project here: https://shorturl.at/EpdtD

Meet our partners at Field & Fork Network! Based in Buffalo, Field & Fork Network connects communities to innovative solutions that foster a sustainable food system. A proud partner of Food Future WNY, they take action towards developing and expanding a resilient, equitable, and community-owned WNY food system. To learn more about their work, visit them here on LinkedIn or at their website https://lnkd.in/ehmMQuNf.

Passionate about breaking down barriers in food selling and purchasing? Food Future WNY's Markets & Buyers is the place to get it done! To get in on the action, visit us online at https://lnkd.in/eSapP_ZT.