Building a resilient food system through collaboration and collective action
Get involved with our work Groups
Interested in getting involved with AFSN and topic of your choice? Join one or more of our monthly work groups!
Our 4 work groups are critical to AFSN's collaborative efforts to bring capacity across our region:
Food Justice Summit Work Group helps plan and shape our foundational event, the annual Food Justice Summit.
Agriculture & Production Work Group looks for meaningful ways to support local growers, producers, and agricultural service providers.
Policy & Advocacy Work Group shapes AFSN's policy priorities, initiatives, and efforts to engage on meaningful change regionally and throughout NY.
Food Access Work Group highlights actionable and concrete ways to strengthen mutual connection and support for our emergency and supplemental food access sector (food pantries, backpack programs, food banks)
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Many members of our food system struggle to do a lot with not enough. Frontline agencies and organizations need someone in their corner, fighting and advocating for solutions to intractable conflicts, and supporting the vulnerable pieces in our food system.
The Network can devote particular attention to trends in the food system across communities and sectors, and bring a guiding framework of asset-based development, and philosophy of respect and good faith. By developing and supporting the work of our regional food system network to cultivate enhanced regional capacity, we can empower more people and producers to live, eat, and grow well.
Strengthening our food system together
The Adirondack Food System Network is a collaborative effort by multiple organizations to better understand system-wide issues, identify gaps, and realistic solutions to help strengthen and promote a more resilient regional food system to collective and equitable partnership.
We strive for a regional food system is resilient, just, environmentally responsible, equitable, and supports improved human health
Serving the North Country & Adirondack Region
Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Warren, and Washington Counties