SOFSA Blog
SOFSA’s Statement of Solidarity in Response to the 2022 Buffalo Tops Massacre
To the Buffalo food system of consumers, cooks, producers, shoppers, retailers, producers, distributors, and everyone in between: We at the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance (SOFSA) send our care and love and condolences to the Buffalo community that lost family...
Lender Symposium: Centering Food Justice in Food Systems Transformation and Honoring the Legacy of Evan Weissman
Lender Faculty Fellow Jonnell Robinson and Lender Student Fellows Shiori Green, Taylor Krzeminski, Phoebe Ambrose, Nicky Kim, and Avalon Gupta VerWiebe participated in the second annual Lender Symposium on Thursday, March 31st 2022. They were joined by SOFSA...
Hunger Free Communities Report: “Aren’t we all eaters? Creating an equitable food policy agenda in Central New York.”
Final-HFCRDownload Click the above link to download and read the final product that our lovely Emerson Fellow, Paige Clay, spent her time at SOFSA working on (in addition to many other fabulous contributions). The report contains an analysis of demographics in...
In the news: “A new Syracuse program to stretch the food budget for produce can lead to better health.”
On January 18th, 2022, SOFSA attended a launch event for the Double Up Food Bucks program at the Salt City Market location of the Syracuse Cooperative Market. We were joined by representatives from the American Heart Association, Assemblywoman Pamela Hunter's office...
2022 Advisory Board Candidates
The time is here for the 2022 Advisory Board elections. We have six new candidates up for election, as well as eight current Advisory Board members up for re-election. Elections are taking place at the SOFSA Open Meeting on Thursday, January 20th. See below for...
2021 Highlights
2021 was a busy year for SOFSA, and we have a lot to be proud of! We grew our membership, deepened our partnerships and fostered multitudes of connections in the community. See below for a list of some of our proudest accomplishments, and visit our blog to read...
In the news: “Aren’t We All Eaters? Creating an Equitable Food Policy Agenda in Central New York.”
SOFSA has been lucky enough to have the talented Paige Clay on our team these past 4 months, who brought her skills and knowledge to SOFSA from Colorado and Wooster as an Emerson Hunger Fellow. Paige has been an extremely valuable member of the team here at SOFSA. A...
SOFSA Site Visit: Hudson Egg Farms
"Welcome to the Eggs-perience" On Friday, December 10th, SOFSA Advisory Board member Christina Hudson Kohler led a site visit of her fourth-generation, family-owned egg farm in Elbridge, NY, Hudson Egg Farms. Beyond her awesome work for SOFSA, Christina is the Egg...
Meet Avalon Gupta VerWiebe
Please give a warm welcome to Avalon Gupta VerWiebe (she/they), our recently hired Equity, Inclusion, and Accountability organizer! Avalon has been with the organizer since starting their practicum in January and has taken on several other roles in the organization...
October 2021 Featured Speaker: Johan Matthews
"Lessons from Cooperative Business Models: Opportunities for Food Systems" Cooperative enterprises have been shown to have a positive track record for productivity levels, profits, staff turnover, reduction of closures, saving jobs, workers financial health, and...