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 Share your love of fresh healthy
food with those who don’t get
enough nutritious food. Capital District Community Gardens (CDCG) launched the
Squash Hunger in 2004 and has since collected more than
24,000
pounds of donated produce from members of the community.
We continue to increase this number by encouraging local farmers and
gardeners to drop off their extra produce at one of the twelve Squash Hunger
collection sites in
Albany, Schenectady and Rensselaer counties.
Here’s How to Help *
Harvest and share the extra produce
from you own garden*
Donate produce from your farm, your
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share or a farmer’s market*
When picking strawberries or apples
pick some for the hungry*
When shopping for your family, buy
extra produce to share. *
Bring the produce to one of eight collection sites
throughout the capital district.
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*2008 Drop off Locations
TBA*
Produce can be dropped off from
June-October. The following drop off locations are ready for your extra produce.
Past Drop off Locations
Café
Nora- 952 Troy
Schenectady Road, Latham *NO LONGER A DROP OFF LOCATION*
Capital District Community Gardens' Office- 40 River
Street, Troy, 274-8685
Delmar
Market Place-406 Kenwood Avenue, Delmar, 439-3936
Greulichs Market Inc- 3403 Carman Road, Schenectady,
355-1530
Honest
Weight Food Coop- 484
Central Avenue, Albany, 482-2667
Nichol's
Shop n' Save- 5
Maple Road, Voorheesville, 765-2629
Miller's Supermarket- 3703 NY
Highway 43, West Sand Lake, 674-2846
Troy
Farmers Market- Troy
Marina, Saturdays 9-1
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Locations that
have received
produce from the Squash Hunger Program
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- Capital City Rescue Mission, Albany
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- Comm. of Economic Opportunity (CEO),
Troy NY
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- Doors of Hope, West Sand Lake NY
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- Concerns U, Rensselaer NY
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- Residential Center, Altamont House,
Altamont NY
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- Booth Home, Schenectady NY
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- Schenectady Inner City Ministry,
Schenectady NY
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- YMCA food pantry, Schenectady NY
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- St. Catherine's Home, Albany NY
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- Equinox Shelters, Albany NY
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Facts about Hunger in New York State
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Fifty percent of households
receiving emergency food assistance include at least one employed adult
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America’s Second Harvest
estimates that more than 900,000 New Yorkers rely on Emergency Food Programs (EFPs),
or soup kitchens and food pantries, each week.
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According to the New York State
Department of Health, the total number of meals provided by soup kitchens
increased by 3.9 million pounds (61%) from 1987 to 1996.
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An estimated 340,080 children in
NYS are hungry, according to the Nutrition Consortium of New York State.
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During the summer months, the
problem is more acute when children, who are most affected by hunger, don’t
have access to school-based meals
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Nearly 80,000 of those using the
Food Pantries of the Capital Region were infants or children, 86,000 were adults
and 13,500 were seniors.
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