In an unjust food system--one that prioritizes profits over people and food itself--community care workers and stewards of food sovereignty face economic insecurity when they choose to challenge and subvert these existing structures. Systems of care and food sovereignty--intentionally situated outside of the existing exploitative and degenerative food system--become increasingly difficult to sustain as we prioritize the livelihood of care workers and the integrity of our food and natural systems.

Here is a list of our mutual-aid partners:

Bushwick Ayuda Mutua: A grassroots network of volunteers providing groceries and household staples to residents in Bushwick, Brooklyn with an emphasis on serving undocumented people, low-income families with children and those sick or positive to COVID-19.

Red Canary Song: A grassroots collective of asian and migrant sex workers. We are honored that they make kimchi from our Napa cabbage.

Send Chinatown Love: responds to the needs of Asian-owned businesses by providing customized services and resources, while also creating opportunities for our community to connect with these businesses. With all initiatives, Send Chinatown Love hopes to build a more resilient future for these businesses and for NYC’s Chinatowns.

East Brooklyn Mutual Aid: East Brooklyn Mutual Aid is growing food security in East New York and serves hundreds of people weekly with free food but with plans to build cooperatively run grocery stores in throughout East Brooklyn.

Heart of Dinner: A nonprofit organization that fundraises to provide cooked-meals and groceries to 1,000 elderly-community of Chinatown, Manhattan. 

Wat Buddha Thai Thavorn Vanaram: Wat Buddha Thai Thavorn Vanaram is a  Buddhist temple in Elmhurst, Queens. We would work with them to do occasional distribution for 100 residents. Because the businesses and livelihoods of Thai, Chinese, Laotian, Burmese communities of Elmhurst are  mostly structured by a cash-based economy, they have not been able to support themselves with government funding during the pandemic. We would provide organic Asian greens to the temple for them to distribute to the Buddhist community. 

Delaware Opportunities: A nonprofit serving Delaware County, New York residents with emergency food and economic relief, school supplies, and home deliveries. 

Future Foods: In 2021, we received a $12,000 grant to collaborate with Dr. Carli Ficano’s Hartwick college class to run a ten-week subsidized CSA pilot and cooking program for ten families in Otsego county. Students came to volunteer on the farm,  while managing and researching consumer outreach, with the hopes that this pilot will turn into a long term collaboration as a way to support the health and vitality of our local community. In 2023 we received a $10k grant from Community Foundation of Otsego County to continued this project. We again partnered with Catholic Charities, and home-delivered full-calorie food boxes to 30 families for two months!