🤝 Mutual Aid & Food Sharing

National searchable database that lets home gardeners search by ZIP code to find local food pantries that accept fresh produce donations. Useful when no local gleaning program serves a given town.

Squash Hunger program specifically collects fresh produce from home gardens, community gardens, and farms and distributes to Capital Region food pantries and shelters. Capital Roots also runs community gardens and the Veggie Mobile, supporting food access since 1975.

Operates client-choice food pantries in Cobleskill, Sidney (21 Liberty St), and Richmondville (1455 State Route 7). Provides 4-day emergency food supply; families can use once per 30 days.

Catskill's client-choice pantry — shoppers walk the space like a supermarket and select their own items. Will deliver to Catskill residents unable to come in person.

Catskills-based food sovereignty nonprofit distributing food from local farms to mutual aid groups, food pantries, and NYC partners. Partners with Delaware Opportunities to provide ~100 organic food boxes monthly. Also runs Star Route Farm and the West Branch Commons land trust for BIPOC farmers.

Greenwich-based rural hunger nonprofit operating a 20,000-sq-ft Food & Farm Hub. Programs include a weekly food pantry, Food Recovery Project (gleaning), Fresh Food Collective, Food Farmacy produce-prescription program, and Edible Education classes.

Greene County community action agency. Maintains a directory of all Greene County food pantries, soup kitchens, and senior nutrition sites. Operates its own pantry Monday and Thursday afternoons.

Refrigerated box truck collects donated produce from farms across the Hudson Valley and delivers to the Hudson Valley Food Bank and local pantries. Best fit for larger volume donations — call first.

CCE Schoharie-Otsego coordinates gleaning that rescues fresh produce from stores, restaurants, and farms and redistributes to food pantries across both counties. Central resource for county food assistance information.

Network of emergency food pantries across Delaware County providing 3–4 day food supply to residents temporarily without food or money. Headquartered in Hamden. Receives weekly organic food boxes via partnership with Catskills Agrarian Alliance.

Operates 14 tiny food pantries and 2 community fridges in Beacon, plus logistics support for other Hudson Valley community fridges. Non-perishable donations in tiny pantries; perishables and frozen items in community fridges. "Take what you need, leave what you can."

Regional food rescue and harvesting network connecting food donors—farms, restaurants, grocery stores, home gardeners—with food pantries and meal programs across seven Hudson Valley counties. Operates via the ChowMatch app with a network of 300+ volunteers.

Working farm and education center. Partners with regional gleaning programs and runs equity-focused food access programming. Trains beginning and BIPOC farmers.

Regional directory of local mutual aid networks across the Hudson Valley. Member groups include Mutual Aid Beacon (Dutchess), Capital District Mutual Aid Network, Catskill NY Mutual Aid (Greene), Kingston NY Mutual Aid, Helping Hands Olive-Shandaken-Woodstock, Community Care Planning Group (Columbia), Newburgh Mutual Aid, Northeast Dutchess Mutual Aid, Poughkeepsie Neighborhoods Network, Putnam Valley Mutual Aid Network, Red Hook Mutual Aid, Rhinebeck Cares, and New Lebanon Neighbors.

Hudson Valley regional non-profit that coordinates the donation of legally harvested game — primarily venison — to food pantries and food programs across Dutchess County and surrounding areas. Operates as the regional counterpart to the Venison Donation Coalition (which covers Western and Central New York) and works in partnership with Feeding New York State, the DEC, and regional food banks. Volunteers process and deliver thousands of pounds of game annually. The parent organization, Conservation Awareness Foundation, also runs conservation-education programming including an annual Junior Pheasant Hunt at the Lafayetteville Multiple Use Area in Milan, NY, providing youth hunting and outdoor education. Hunters interested in donating deer should contact one of the coordinators directly.

Operates an emergency food pantry and community garden in Washington County. Partners with Comfort Food Community, Market 32, and the Regional Food Bank. Pantry open Monday/Wednesday/Friday by appointment.

Gleans from 50+ farms June–November and distributes to 30+ food pantries, mutual aid networks, and community programs across three counties. Also runs a Columbia County Mobile Market with sliding-scale pricing and a seedling distribution program reaching five counties. Fiscally sponsored by Hawthorne Valley Association.

Catskill-based mutual aid kitchen. Prepares meals and stocks free fridges across the region; excess produce moves into the mutual aid network.

National searchable map of mutual aid networks, community self-support projects, supply networks, and needs-request systems. Filter by location to find every active mutual aid group near you. Maintained by Town Hall Project; updated more often than any single local list.

Regional food bank serving 23 counties in northeastern New York. Operates Patroon Land Farm in Voorheesville, which grows produce specifically for hunger relief. Call to coordinate dropoff.

Schoharie County's core community action agency. Runs a food pantry plus emergency assistance, budget counseling, and referrals.

Rescues unsold and surplus food from farms, grocery stores, restaurants, and wholesalers. Distributes fresh groceries and prepares restaurant-quality meals from rescued ingredients via a commercial kitchen.

Sullivan County pantry providing free food to families and individuals regardless of background. Open every other Friday — call for distribution dates.

Operated through Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County. Has provided over 800,000 free meals since March 2020. Sources from regional farms and food producers. Door-to-door delivery for homebound residents, veterans, those with limited transportation.

Distribution center at Catskill Mountain Christian Center. Stocks pantry essentials for families below the poverty line in Delaware County and surrounding areas. Supplemental, not emergency.

Coalition of 70+ food pantries across the Capital District, with a searchable Food Connect Map for finding the closest one. Member pantries accept fresh produce — call ahead.

Volunteer Glean Team harvests excess produce from farms and private gardens in Ulster County and distributes to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. Gleaned 68,000+ pounds from 17 farms in a recent season.

Washington County's community action food pantry. Monthly distribution to residents who apply annually and meet eligibility requirements.