Fostering a healthy and just food system in the Catskills region of New York
Our 2023 Annual Report!
Our 2023 Annual Report!
Take a look at our 2023 Annual Report to learn about our mission, values, finances, and various programs.
The Mission of Catskills Agrarian Alliance is to model Food Sovereignty in the Catskills
by protecting and promoting the right of all people to healthy, culturally-appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, as well as by supporting our right to define our own food systems.
Catskills Agrarian Alliance (CAA) is a comprehensive food sovereignty project built from the ground up by farmers in Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie Counties in New York State.
For a decade, our community of farmers have been working out of necessity on an alternative production and distribution project. This project, first known as the Lucky Dog Food Hub and then The 607 CSA, aimed to ensure food-security for the NYC food-shed by scaling through collaboration and aggregation rather than by merely “getting big.” CAA is the culmination of that work.
We fundraise to provide mutual aid to historically under-resourced communities; grow and source food from local farms; facilitate regional land-access work; and operate a regional value-chain, collaborating with and serving a variety of partners (including schools, businesses, households, and mutual aid groups).
We imagine…
a worldview in which Earth is not just an extractable resource, food is not a commodity, and partnership replaces exploitation.
We see ourselves in a populated Catskills’ farmland of the not-too-distant future thriving ecologically and economically under the stewardship of farmers growing nutrient-dense food made available to all the people within our foodshed.
To accomplish these goals, we will focus on four Program areas:
1) Community Organizing & Mutual Aid
Food distributions alongside our mutual aid partners in the Catskills, Hudson Valley, & NYC
Farm Stands at community events
2) Stewardship of Land
Land access for historically marginalized communities
3) Production of food
Running an agroecology-centered farm
Farmer Incubation - training the next generation
4) Aggregation and Distribution of food through
Community Supported Agriculture
Wholesale
Farm-to-Institution
Would you like to support our work?
We do this work in solidarity with collaborating farms and mutual aid partners. Please join us.
From June through November, The 607 CSA (a program of CAA) delivers weekly to 40 locations in the Catskills and New York City.
We are currently in the middle of our first-ever Winter CSA! Summer shares will open for sign-ups in February.
“Alliance”: a relationship based on an affinity in interests, nature, or qualities.
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Our Allies
Thank you to our supporters!
Thank you to our legal team from Pace Law for their help in the development of this nonprofit.
We partner with the fabulous folks at Myers Produce and Hub on the Hill to transport our food to NYC.
See a map of our partner farms, suppliers, pick-up locations, & more HERE.
