The Lexington Avenue Community Farm was founded in 2011 and provides space for 65 families to grow approximately 6,000 pounds of food for their households each year, Foodlink says.
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October 24, 2022
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The Lexington Avenue Community Farm was founded in 2011 and provides space for 65 families to grow approximately 6,000 pounds of food for their households each year, Foodlink says.
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September 24, 2021
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The Council of Agency Executives has named three award recipients for its annual Community Partner Awards and Member of Distinction Award. Monroe County Commissioner of Public Health Michael Mendoza and Foodlink Inc. President and CEO Julia Tedesco each will receive ...
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September 8, 2021
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The recently passed House appropriations bill has set aside $750,000 for Rochester’s Foodlink Inc. to help the nonprofit cover the costs of a much-needed refrigerator expansion, Rep. Joe Morelle said on Wednesday. The bill still needs to be passed by ...
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May 19, 2021
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Foodlink Inc. has opened a new community café inside the Central Library’s Bausch & Lomb building downtown. The café is a pay-what-you-can eatery at which guests can pay the suggested price on the menu or pay what they are able. ...
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April 21, 2021
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Foodlink on Wednesday said it will phase out its drive-thru food distribution events in Monroe County next month while expanding its food-banking partnerships and capacity during the summer months. To better support food-insecure households during the transition period, Foodlink has ...
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August 14, 2020
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Foodlink Inc. has been awarded a multi-year grant from the Sands Family Foundation Generation 3 Philanthropy Project (G3PP) to support its Curbside Market, a mobile farmers market that visits and distributes food to underserved communities across the Rochester region. The ...
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Read More »December 7, 2018 Comments Off on Wegmans and Foodlink: A partnership to fight hunger
In the beginning, there was Tom Ferraro and there was Wegmans. In the 40-year history of Foodlink, it’s hard to distinguish whether there was a time that it existed without its largest benefactor, Wegmans, the nationally renowned grocery store ...
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March 22, 2018
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Food banks are a stop-gap measure, not the answer to hunger, agreed a panel brought together Wednesday, March 21, by Foodlink. And the question is not really how to solve hunger, but how to solve poverty, they said. “At a ...
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