Sharing food is a incredibly satisfying and natural part of being human. We love to share food, break bread & gift food abundances to any and everyone. We share food via foraging, food preservation events, at our homebase in Kerhonkosn NY and via local mutual aid networks.

We are well aware that there is no shortage of food on this planet for all beings; there is simply an imbalanced, unhealthy distribution. We contribute to the dismantling of systems of greed, fear, scarcity mentality and structural racism against folks from the global majority by offering a sliding-scale membership model as well as scholarships and work trade options. Click here to learn more.

Approximately 50% of foraged foods will be distributed to members present at events, 40% will go in our collective storage for future processing & preservation and 10% will be gifted & distributed through local mutual aid networks. We strongly believe that by upleveling our collective skillsets, we can build an interdependent, collectively-run, hyper-local food system.

If we are going to thrive in this rapidly changing and uncertain world, we are going to need to collectively up-level our food and land skills. This will require relying on each other despite of (and because of) our various perspectives, backgrounds, cultural and political differences. We have to work together.

We acknowledge that many of us may have grown up in environments where food was scarce, inconsistent, unappetizing, unhealthy, no-longer-living and generally disconnected from source. We acknowledge that many of us may have grown up in food apartheid*, without access to any fresh or living foods. At True Foods events, we work with folks to gently rekindle the flame and natural-intuition of working with food and the land that is our collective birthright.

We are proud to host events on topics from “seed-to-compost”, to familiarize ourselves with the whole cycle of growing, harvesting and making use of the beautiful life-giving plants in our area. These skills include but are not limited to foraging wild and abundant foods, no-till & organic gardening, seeding, harvesting, food preservation (drying, canning, freezing, fermenting), perennial foods, composting, saving seeds, meal prep, cooking, basic kitchen skills, food storage, healing through food and more.

April - Nov:

• foraging & gleaning (monthly)

• ongoing food-preservation meet-ups (3-5 / month)

Dec - March:

• monthly ‘recharge” gatherings where we practice different grounding & healing techniques, connect, share stories, clean our freezers, share seeds and prepare for the next season

See our Calendar for some upcoming wild & abundant foods.

*Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm chooses this term—food apartheid instead of food desert—very intentionally to describe impoverished neighborhoods that lack healthy food options, because deserts are natural ecosystems while this lack of access is human-created segregation. SOURCE

Our efforts:

• decrease food waste in the Hudson Valley

• grow & gather foods which are ideally: organic, fresh, local, nutritious, medicinal, no/low-packaging, healthy (i.e. low/no sugar, chemically processed foods)

• meet more of our food needs locally, shortening supply chains & increasing community resilience

• introduce & incorporate lesser-known, wild & abundant foods into our diets 

• reduce our dependence on food from grocery stores or pantries 

• improve our our collective skill sets in food & land work: see “build skills”

• improve physical, mental & spiritual health through cooperative work & by spending more time outdoors, connecting with nature

• create spaces for authentic, safe, inter-generational learning. We feel strongly about treating youth (and all people) with care and mutual respect 

• acknowledge the past and current impacts of systemic racism, the pharmaceutical-industrial-military system, tactics of political division & dis-empowerment and other exploitation and extraction of indigenous communities, separating people from the land and our cultural life-ways. We come together as a practice in rekindling our birthright to healthy food and healthy soils

• empower individuals and families to invest in their own food through hands-on efforts