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It’s been a few years since we started up our decentralized community agricultural program, the “Peach Tree Project”. The name doesn’t do justice to the variety of the plants or skills we share, but it does embody the image of a community in growth and that’s kind of the point.

The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless jointly released a new report entitled A Place at the Table: Prohibitions on Sharing Food with People Experiencing Homelessness. The report focuses on cities that have created ordinances, policies and tactics to limit groups from sharing food with homeless people.

If you haven’t heard, the Long Island Food Not Bombs community is getting together to create a sister organization, a nonprofit. We’re calling it Community Solidarity and we’re hoping it to be the future foundation of a radical movement for social change.

The Long Island Food Not Bombs Farmingville Food Share is an awesome sight and the food share this past Thursday was particularly awesome, namely because we had an ice-cream truck.

Last week Long Island Food Not Bombs meet to discuss the future of our efforts and an enormous consensus was reached. In order to keep growing we need to create a sister organization, a nonprofit.

We urgently need your support; we need it right now! Please read on and please consider making a monetary donation this week! You can do so by calling 631.223.4370, dropping off monetary donations at any of our food shares or by contacting any of the volunteers listed at the bottom of this email.

I want to talk about a few things, Farmingville started with a meeting at a park in Port Jefferson on a
summer night. Several of us met; with some new faces, some old, and we
 agreed on Farmingville for our third food share on Long Island. We 
picked a night that would work for everyone, every week; and before you
 knew it, Farmingville was our regular Thursday night Food Share. 


Thinking back on 2009, Long Island Food Not Bombs did a lot! It was a year of community solidarity. As friends, as neighbors, as individuals, we all struggled against the hardships forced onto us by the recession. But as a community we were able to overcome them. And with that in mind we invite you to glance over some of our achievements in the past year.

We are eternally grateful for the efforts of folks who have aided our efforts to provide food for our foodshares. No matter what the weather is, we can count on folks like Larry to help bring boxes of food to our packed cars.

We have heard from y'all that you appreciate what we are doing for the people. We thank you so much for all your efforts - without you, our efforts would be impossible!