by Avalon Gupta VerWiebe | Apr 2, 2024 | Announcements, Food Policy, Reflections
Dear Army Corps of Engineers and Micron Technology, We are submitting a comment on behalf of the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance, a local coalition representing the interests of food systems stakeholders Syracuse, Onondaga County, and Onondaga Nation. This...
by Ellen Pitstick | May 22, 2023 | Announcements, Reflections
During the 2022-2023 academic year, SOFSA’s Evaluation Intern, Ellen Pitstick, developed a plan to evaluate SOFSA and its impact. Evaluating a food council like SOFSA is important because it allows members and leaders to understand how the network operates, how...
by Avalon Gupta VerWiebe | May 26, 2022 | Announcements, Reflections
To the Buffalo food system of consumers, cooks, producers, shoppers, retailers, producers, distributors, and everyone in between: We at the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance (SOFSA) send our care and love and condolences to the Buffalo community that lost family...
by Steve Ali | May 14, 2021 | Events, Reflections
A few weeks ago, SOFSA hosted a planting day at Kirk Park along with our friends at Onondaga Earth Corps. It was called a memorial, but really, it was a service day with an aching heart; we were there to remember our friend Evan Weissman, who passed away last April,...
by Maura Ackerman | Apr 9, 2021 | Reflections
A year ago today, our city lost an incredible food justice advocate. Evan Weissman was an innovator, an agitator, a visionary, and an unstoppable force, whose passion touched our community in so many ways. Evan and I met a few months after I moved to Syracuse. As two...
