Product Updates

NOURISH NEW YORK

Governor Cuomo's Nourish New York Initiative is a lifeline for our families and our farmers who have been struggling with changes brought on by COVID-19. This critical program helps people who are food insecure to access the nourishment that they need, while providing a market for farmers to sell their products. The program provides funding to food banks for the purchase of agricultural food products such as produce, meat, eggs, seafood, and dairy products from New York State farms and processors. The items are available to our partner agencies at no cost. Listed below is our current inventory of Nourish NY items as well as items expected to be received soon:

Coming soon:
New shipments of yogurt, eggs, and more produce items as they become available.  

By ordering and distributing these items to your clients, you provide funding to New York farms! 

GARDEN ON THE GO KITS NOW AVAILABLE

Our “Garden on the Go” kits are open to all HPNAP eligible food pantries and soup kitchens. Garden on the Go kits are now available on the online shopping list until August.

• Each Garden on the Go kit will contain 20 fabric root pouches, at least 20 seed packets, seedlings and instruction packets.

• Kits will be delivered to an agency with its regular delivery or pick-up.

• The agency will be responsible for purchasing 6-8 bags of topsoil.

Garden on the Go can be accomplished throughout the growing season and a variety of fruits and vegetables can be grown in root pouches. See the planting suggestions below for ideas of what to plant during the summer season.

• June: Cucumber, Eggplant, Herbs, Tomato seedlings, Pepper seedlings, Onions, and Squash seeds.
• End of July: Kale, Lettuce, Peas, Radish, and Spinach seeds.
• Middle of August: Beets Broccoli, Carrots, Lettuce, Peas, and Turnip Seeds.

Check out Growing and Harvesting in New York for more information on what you can grow.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact our Nutrition department at (315) 437-1899 ext. 222.

NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION REUSABLE BAGS

Thank you for your interest in receiving reusable bags for your pantry clients. Our first shipment, which took place in early March, was a limited amount of bags. The bags received have already been distributed. However, we have been assured by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that more bags will be delivered to the Food Bank soon. We do not know the anticipated date of arrival yet. Once the bags arrive at the Food Bank, a plan for distribution will be put in place.

We appreciate your cooperation during this time. For questions or more information, please contact our Agency Relations Department at (315) 437-1899 ext. 256.