Kingston Connections:

Healthy Food and Nutrition

• The Ulster County Directory of Healthy Food

  A list of restaurants in the hudson valley with healthy menu options. 

• Healthy Cooking Classes from Cornell Cooperative Extension 

  These classes are offered once a month and will teach you to cook a new item each time. 

• People’s Place  Food pantry and free dining

• Family of Kingston, New Paltz, etc., Family of Woodstock

• Reservoir Food Pantry, Boiceville. Food pantry. 

• Angel Food East, Kingston. Food pantry and home-cooked meals. 

• New York State Farmers Markets that accept SNAP

  This is a guide to using your SNAP benefits at farmers markets. 

• A Map and Directory of Ulster County Food Pantries and Meal Programs

  This is a resource which you can both call on when you need to and which you can contribute to when you have the time or means. 

• New York State Farmers Market Locator

  This is an interactive map to farmers markets in our region, their times and locations. 

• Kingston YMCA Farm Project

  This is a resource for free, fresh and local food.

• Live Well Kingston Healthy Food Directory

  This is a directory and map of healthy food options in and around kingston. 

• Adams Fairacre Farms

  Garden and farm fresh food store.

• Kingston Food Co-op

  Community owned grocery story in the works offering healthy food in the center of Kingston. 

• Hawthorne Valley Farm Store

  Fresh Produce from the farm 

• High Falls Food Co-op

  Healthy and affordable food in a small community owned grocery store. 

• Hudson Valley Food System Coalition

  Organization influences food policy in the Hudson Valley and facilitates collaboration to encourage food access.

• Findhelp.org

  A directory of food pantries in the Kingston area.

• Hudson Valley Farm Hub

  Food access program distributing affordable fresh food to farmers markets, markets, farm stands and organizations in Ulster County.

• Food Bank of the Hudson Valley

  Free food and meals.

• Glynwood Farm

  A variety of accessible and affordable food initiatives, including accepting SNAP at the farm store.

• Feed Hudson Valley, Community Food Network

  An effort to rescue food that is at risk of going to waste and mitigating food waste. 

• Nourish New York

  A state initiative to support local farming and food distribution that began during the pandemic. 

• Surplus Food Network through Nourish NY

  A database through Nourish New York to access surplus food that will otherwise go to waste 

• Poughkeepsie Farm Project

  Fresh and affordable food, locally grown.

• A 2020 Assessment of Food Insecurity in the Hudson Valley

  From Bard College.

• A 2022 Evaluation of Food Insecurity in Ulster County

  From the County legislature. 

• A Report on Challenges in the Hudson Valley Food System

  From Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley