By Kat Meadows, April 2025 Rooted in Biodynamics, Growing with Community Tucked into the rolling hills of Trumansburg, NY, Remembrance Farm is a small but mighty biodynamic and organic farm growing salad greens, root vegetables, and culinary herbs for the Finger Lakes region. Since 1999, Nathaniel Thompson and his crew have operated with a deep […]
By Elena Flash, November 2024 Riding along with volunteer Vicki John on Wednesday afternoons provides a taste of the full circle impact of Friendship Donations Network (FDN). Vicki, a lifelong Ithacan, became an FDN volunteer about 9 years ago. Around then, the Statler’s head chef, Kris Escalante, was beginning to connect with FDN based on […]
Written by Kelly King-O’Brien, May 2023. Interviewees: Hannah Lee and Olu Aliweri Location: The Greenhouses at Cornell on Tower Road Partner Background: In the middle of winter, when Ithaca was gray outside, bundles of green lettuce were thriving as they grew hydroponically inside the greenhouses on Tower Road on the Cornell University campus. Hannah and […]
Written by Elena Flash Interviewee: Jungie Que – Christy Location: The Commons, 125 E. Martin Luther King St. Partner Background: Paris Baguette, is one of Ithaca’s newer eateries. It is a large bright space with a bakery-focused menu, offering breads, pastries, cakes, sandwiches, salads and coffee. Customers can watch the beautiful cakes being made in the […]
Written by Elena Flash, February 2022 If you had over 1300 sandwiches and packaged entrees that you did not need, what would you do? Call Friendship Donation Network! Last month when overnight temperatures were near zero and daytime highs only in the 20s, Cornell Dining prepared meals for students who would need to quarantine upon returning to […]
