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🎉 Sponsor Spotlight: Daybright Financial!

We're proud to have Daybright Financial as our Festival of Food Tote Sponsor this year. Thank you for helping make Foodlink's biggest public fundraiser a success!

📅 Join us September 14 and grab your tickets before they're gone. FoodlinkNY.org/FOF26

Festival of Food on the Road wrapped up last night at Lento Restaurant, and we're feeling incredibly grateful!

Thank you to everyone who joined us throughout the series and helped build excitement for Foodlink's biggest fundraiser of the year.

The countdown is on... Festival of Food is now just over a month away, and we can't wait to celebrate an unforgettable evening of food, drinks, and community with you on September 14. Haven't secured your spot yet? Tickets are on sale now, and you won't want to miss it!

🎟️ Get your tickets today and join us for a night that helps nourish our community. FoodlinkNY.org/FOF26

Foodlink's Festival of Food hosts preview at Lento Foodlink's “Festival of Food on the Road” popped up at Lento as a preview of next month's main event. The Festival of Food returns to the Rochester Public Market Sept. 14 to raise funds. Tickets on sale.

Festival of Food on the Road makes its final stop tonight (5-7pm) at Lento Restaurant , and trust us—you won’t want to miss this one.

Join us for $1 oysters, $9 Teeny 'Tinis, and a sneak peek at the flavors, fun, and excitement that await at the 21st annual Foodlink Festival of Food on September 14. 🍸🦪

This is our last and final stop, so grab your friends, make a reservation, and come help us close out Festival of Food on the Road in style. We can't wait to celebrate with you tonight! ✨🍽️

Register now for the Rochester Soil Health Day being held at the Foodlink Community Farm! https://form.jotform.com/.../rochester-soil-health-day-2026

Community Event: Rochester Soil Health Day

We’re sharing this upcoming community event for anyone who may be interested! Rochester Soil Health Day will take place at Foodlink on Tuesday, September 1, from 4–7 PM.

Have your garden soil screened for lead for FREE and learn more about the health of your soil. 🪴

Reservations are required, so be sure to sign up in advance: https://form.jotform.com/.../rochester-soil-health-day-2026

It's been two weeks since the release of Feeding America's annual Map the Meal Gap report. Here are (4) takeaways about our 10-county service area:

1️⃣ 12.4% of the population (156K people) in Foodlink’s 10-county service area live in a household experiencing food insecurity.

2️⃣ The City of Rochester is home to 4 zip codes with food-insecurity rates more than double the region’s average. (14605 – 36.8%; 14614 – 32.1%; 14621 – 28.8%; 14608 – 27.5%)

3️⃣ 37.7% of those experiencing food insecurity do not meet the income eligibility threshold to qualify for SNAP assistance.

4️⃣ Food insecurity does not impact everyone equally. If you are Black or Hispanic, you are 3x more likely to experience food insecurity.

Learn more on our blog by visiting: https://foodlinkny.org/new-map-the-meal-gap-food-insecurity-data-released/

In the wake of nearly 4,000 Monroe County residents losing SNAP benefits in June, our own Mitch Gruber went on WXXI News' Connections late last week to talk about the impact, and what's coming next ...

Understanding cuts to SNAP and more In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 8/7/26, Rochester City Councilmember Mitch Gruber joins us to explore the ramifications of the recent cuts to SNAP benefits.

Thank you to our friends at The Bonadio Group for volunteering at the farm last week! This fantastic crew helped water, harvest, clean ... and they even stuck around for Jennifer's nutrition education demonstration! Thank you for supporting our mission!

Shoutout to our HR team, and our partners at Daybright Financial, for hosting the 2nd annual Wellness Fair in our gorgeous new event space! We appreciate you looking out for our employees with tons of amazing, local resources!

Thank you to New York State Attorney General Letitia James for facilitating the delivery of more than 280,000 eggs to Foodlink this past week as part of a bipartisan, multistate price-fixing settlement. We look forward to distributing these 23,400 cartons to families throughout the Rochester region!

Read more at: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-secures-more-280000-eggs-rochester-families

Thank you to the Buffalo Bills Foundation for inviting us out to camp Thursday morning! We brought some of our Foodlink Career Fellowship alumni and apprentices, and a few Rochester Ecology Partners campers from the farm, too!