Past Event Gallery

Here’s a look back at some of the great recent events and happenings!

Buffalo Bills & Mother Cabrini Health Foundations Come Through for FVRx

>> June 24, 2021

The Buffalo Bills Foundation provided a $25,000 grant to produce nutrtion information sheets that featured a Bills Player each week, making it a football collectors item worth keeping.

The other side of this piece includes a fruit or vegetable of the week along with nutritional information and a recipe. (You can see each week’s recipe in Allison’s Kitchen)

Our long-standing partner in FVRx is the Community Health Center of Buffalo. And, just recently, due to another grant of $46,000 for our greenhouse expansion project from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, we were able to expand the program’s reach to another site – Niagara Street Pediatrics – increasing our distribution of fresh, locally grown and nutritious food to 75,000 individuals!

Drive Through Food Giveaway

>> September 19, 2020

Buffalo Go Green partnered with Canisius College, MMB, Hamlin Park Taxpayers Association, and the Buffalo Center for Health Equity to distribute hundreds of boxes of fresh produce and fruit via car delivery.

All volunteer distributors took every precaution wearing masks and gloves to deposit a 20 pounf box of food into each vehicle eithe rin the back seat or trunk.

Thank you to all who helped plan and volunteered for this essential service ring these difficult times!

Bailey Green Food & Clean

>> August 19, 2020

A terrific team of volunteers helped us distribute fresh food AND cleaned up our Bailey Green neighborhood.

Youth volunteers with the The Buffalo Urban League, Independent Health, Urban Fruits & Veggies, Buffalo Peacemakers, Buffalo Go Green, Inc. and Harmac Medical Products combed the streets — at a safe social distance and with face coverings, of course — to keep our residents healthy, and to #KeepBaileyGreenClean!

University Food Give Away

>> August 2, 2020

Organizations involved were BGG, UFV, Key BankBuffalo Police Department, Healthy Corner Store Initiative, US Department of Agriculture, Erie County Legislature Chair April Baskin and University District Councilman Rasheed Wyatt.

Photo Credit: Kazi Mahabubur Rahman

building the boxes

hauling the soil

tree trimming

planting the boxes

Square Garden Work Day

>> June 16, 2020

The day was an absolute success! With a special shout-out to the Outreach Team, and everyone for pitching in. And with a special special shout-out to Allison and her crew – everything was coordinated perfectly, thank you Allison; Racheal (GroundWork Buffalo) brought out our youth from the Green Team, thank you, Racheal. Carl for the COVID training, excellent my friend.

Councilmember Wingo came out, thank you, Donna, from his visit, there is the possible purchase of the lots for the building of the Pavillion looking better – he will reach out to the RealEstate Dept. to try to move things forward, we will do a follow-up by the end of the week.

Thanks to everyone again for your effort, time, and prayers in helping to move Fillmore Forward and more importantly our community along, love it when we all come together – Stay Bless.

Rita E. Gay, Board President
Fillmore Forward, Inc.

Urban Fruits & Veggies, LLC is a for-profit business that grows and distributes fresh produce through mobile markets and through the FVRx (Fruit & Veggies Prescription Program) to abate health conditions prevalent in the underserved community of Western New York while both organizations have partnered together to fight Food Apartheid in our region.

Food Box Delivery in the

Neighborhood

>> June 8, 2020

Buffalo Go Green and Urban Fruits & Veggies, in partnership with the Buffalo Urban League, Harmac Medical Products and The Buffalo Peacemakers are pleased to work together to help residents and families of the Bailey Green Initiative neighborhood stay healthy as we all begin to re-open Western New York from the pandemic shutdown.

On Tuesday, June 9, we will be delivering one box of fresh fruits and vegetables to every Bailey Green residence. That’s 321 boxes of delicious, healthy produce, that’s going to be delivered directly to each home – at no cost.

Special thanks to Allison DeHonney of Urban Fruits and Veggies, and Buffalo Go Green, Inc., Bailey Green Partners, for securing the grant which made this fresh produce available.

We are proud to work together to provide safety, health and opportunity for our Bailey Green neighbors. Our deliveries should start at 1:30 pm and we will be meeting with our volunteer delivery folks on the corner of East Ferry and Zenner Streets.