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new indoor food production system
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
A new indoor food production system, supported by NYPA, is now complete in #EastBuffalo. The #hydroponic system will help advance #urbanfarming technology and provide nutritional produce to underserved communities in and near #Buffalo.
The facility will grow herbs and vegetables year-round in an indoor environment, with no soil, and is designed to help understand food production’s impact on #NewYork’s power grid, electricity usage and carbon emissions.
Buffalo Go Green, Inc. | Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) | Buffalo Center for Health Equity
Urban Farm Day
AUGUST 28, 2023
We so enjoyed having folks visit our newest greenhouse farm during Urban Farm Day with Dr. Samina Raja and the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab from UB providing interactive workshops. Thank you to all who attended and, of course, Dr. Raja and the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab!
a visit from the President of the American Farm Bureau Federation
AUGUST 31, 2023
Zippy Duvall, who was also joined by local and state Farm Bureau representatives, Cornell Cooperative Extension, the Buffalo Food Equity Network, Erie County, and members of the Greater Buffalo Urban Growers (BGUG). We provided a presentation on the importance of urban farming, food and land access, and the importance of having all voices at the table when it comes to farm policy.
‘Everybody’s loving this’: Healthy Corner Store Initiative grows in EastBuffalo
AUGUST 29, 2023
Lucky Majid owns a business and lives in the same East Side community wherehe grew up.
“I love this neighborhood,” he said. “I go out with customers. We play gamestogether. They come to my house. We went to school together.”
This might come as a surprise if all you know about Majid is that he is a Yemeni-American who operates a convenience store in one of the region’s poorestneighborhoods.
Like his father before him, he runs the store at Sycamore and Herman streets in theBroadway-Fillmore District. He started a Cricket Wireless franchise inside the shopwhile in his late teens, renamed the place Lucky’s Food Mart after he took ownership,and last year leased part of the space for a smoothie shop.
Majid, 40, has long wanted to bring healthier foods and more hope into aneighborhood that for decades has had too little of both. But with limited meanshimself, he has felt largely abandoned by those from outside East Buffalo with goodintentions to help lift this part of the city – but maybe not much insight.
Looking to tackle health inequities, Highmark gives $2.7 million in Buffalo, Albany – $370,000 to Buffalo Go Green to deliver healthy meals and offer cooking demonstrations
AUGUST 29, 2023
The Buffalo Center for Health Equity was set up about three years ago, seekingto eliminate race-based health disparities in Western New York.
That difficult task got a boost Friday, when Highmark Western and NortheasternNew York announced it was awarding a $1.5 million grant to the center. The healthplan also is providing space within its downtown Buffalo headquarters so the centercan relocate and expand its offices.
This means more access’:
Buffalo Go Green, Highmark unveilmobile food market
APRIL 29, 2023
Dubbed the Highmark Mobile Market, the unit operated by Buffalo Go Green willsupport a fruits and vegetables prescription program that provides access to healthyfood for tens of thousands of people in Buffalo.
The mobile unit, an initiative that received a $370,000 Blue Fund grant fromHighmark Western and Northeastern New York in December 2021, aims to serve the12% of Buffalo residents considered food insecure by meeting them where they are.
