by Micah Orieta | Mar 6, 2025 | Reciprocity & Funding, Reflections, Successes & Celebrations
In February we published the 2024 Impact Report- 10 meaty pages outlining the highlights of our work in 2024. The report captures our new strategic action plan, the growth of our network ,and activities carried out by SOFSA’s various working groups. It does a deep...
by Avalon Gupta VerWiebe | Apr 2, 2024 | Announcements, Food Policy, Reflections
Dear Army Corps of Engineers and Micron Technology, We are submitting a comment on behalf of the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance, a local coalition representing the interests of food systems stakeholders Syracuse, Onondaga County, and Onondaga Nation. This...
by Ellen Pitstick | May 22, 2023 | Announcements, Reflections
During the 2022-2023 academic year, SOFSA’s Evaluation Intern, Ellen Pitstick, developed a plan to evaluate SOFSA and its impact. Evaluating a food council like SOFSA is important because it allows members and leaders to understand how the network operates, how...
by Avalon Gupta VerWiebe | May 26, 2022 | Announcements, Reflections
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...
by Steve Ali | May 14, 2021 | Events, Reflections
A few weeks ago, SOFSA hosted a planting day at Kirk Park along with our friends at Onondaga Earth Corps. It was called a memorial, but really, it was a service day with an aching heart; we were there to remember our friend Evan Weissman, who passed away last April,...
by Maura Ackerman | Apr 9, 2021 | Reflections
A year ago today, our city lost an incredible food justice advocate. Evan Weissman was an innovator, an agitator, a visionary, and an unstoppable force, whose passion touched our community in so many ways. Evan and I met a few months after I moved to Syracuse. As two...
