PressBay’s Food Hub and Pantry are a COVID-inspired, local food centered response to food insecurity in downtown Ithaca.Since March 2020 the Food Hub has offered a convenient way for people to access fresh locally produced food. Each Monday the Hub hosts a free choice, foot accessible, open-to-all Food Pantry in partnership with Friendship Donation Network. […]
Apple Harvest and Cider Week the Food Hub: Tasting FLX Bounty!
Thursdays Oct 1st & 8th, 4 – 7 PM
Welcoming Farmer-Vendors For Winter 2020 – 2021
Please join us! CSA’s and online weekly ordering- both welcome!
Farms To Order From… late Summer and Fall is BOUNTY!
Wondering if you can get in on the Food Hub for your late summer and fall abundance? If YES, and you are a farm… sign up here! If YES and you are a customer, new farms are joining! Like Hemlock Grove, whose organic apple CSA starts Sept 9, 2020!
New Flow for Customer Pick Up Thursdays- now with accessible bathrooms!
TO PICK UP PressBay Food Hub @ 110-1 W. Green St., Ithaca NY 14850 New Flow Starting Thursday June 25th, 20203 – 7 PM HOW TO DO IT: Masks REQUIRED Join the line in PressBay Court (no longer along the sidewalk on Green St). Here you can view our soon-to-be-open Solidarity Garden and use the bathroom if needed! […]
PressBay Bathrooms are Public during downtown rallies and our weekly Monday Food Pantry
Friday, June 19th during the NOON rally at the Bernie Milton pavilion Other protests downtown as they are scheduled, as we know. Contact info below to provide us with updated rally info EVERY MONDAY (3-5 pm) during our Friendship Food Pantry How to use the PressBay Court Bathrooms: (Home to One Ring Donuts, Adrina Dietra, […]
Friendship Pantry Hours Update!
It is a true pleasure to see and share with you each week, courtesy of Friendship Donations Network, Lively Run Dairy, Wegmans, GreenStar Natural Foods Market Silver Queen Farm and all the other farms who donate! We have extended the pantry through the summer but please note: We are CLOSED ON MONDAY, May 25th Our next Pantry is Monday, June 1, […]
AMAZING Friendship Pantry today!
Here’s Adrina Dietra stopping by to drop off her donated masks for essential farmworkers and picking up the first of today’s absolutely AMAZING Friendship Pantry goods… The generosity of this week is intense.. Please send all of your people to receive … Featuring GreenStar Natural Foods Market prepared food ranging from quinoa salads to chicken and turkey to full […]
Farmers and shoppers connect at Ithaca’s Press Bay Alley, now a hub for local food
Ithaca, N.Y. — Press Bay Alley is a hip retail corridor with an eclectic list of tenants that includes an apothecary/lingerie shop and even a circus school. But in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the micro-retail development is pivoting to become a hub to connect area farmers and other food producers with shoppers. https://www.syracuse.com/food/2020/04/farmers-and-shoppers-connect-at-ithacas-press-bay-alley-now-a-hub-for-local-food.html
New partnership FDN & PressBay Food Hub
On Monday, April 20, Friendship Donations Network and PressBay Food Transfer Hub partnered to launch a weekly free food pantry on Monday afternoons. Patrons of the pantry were allowed to select fresh produce donated by local farms and retailers, all while observing Covid-19 safety protocols. The inaugural pantry featured radish greens, various types of mushrooms, Kennebec […]