At Corbin Hill, we are radically reimagining how our communities receive food and creating pathways to support habitually excluded farmers. We envision a community controlled food system and ownership of the supply chain that shifts power and centers equity and justice. Our mission is to disrupt and innovate within the extractive and oppressive food system and deal in the realities that face our communities as it relates to food access, food justice and food sovereignty.
"My fellowship at Corbin Hill Food Project has been a rewarding and enjoyable experience. I've had the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from food justice and food system experts across all boards, and to understand the job from a radical perspective. In the last year and a half with Corbin Hill, I've been involved in deep community work collaborating with community partners such as Amsterdam Houses residents to build a fresh produce program with Brotherhood Sister Sol on a youth supper program. In addition, I've gained hands-on experience in farmers market operations and to expand my experiences as a culinary instructor."
- Emma, Corbin Hill Food Justice Fellow
Our strategy is 3-pronged:
Feeding the Block
We’re ensuring our communities receive fresh, healthy culturally-relevant food and nutrition education in spaces that engender dignity and joy.
"The Corbin Hill Community Skill Share Program was a wonderful event to attend. Our families and community residents who participate in our in-house programs loved it, learned a lot, and most of all, had the opportunity to meet and greet one another as well as meeting community residents. It was also a pleasure that some of our families had their children and grandchildren attend, as they seemed to have so much fun! Seeing the intergenerational participation between the children, adults, and seniors was quite amazing!"
- Stacey Cohen, Director of Program Operations-WHGA, Inc., Randolph Houses
Feeding the Movement
We’re working in partnerships and collectives to shift power and narrative and advocating for a more just and sustainable food system.
“Corbin Hill Food Project is a necessary pillar and foundational institution in the larger national food movement and Food is Medicine, in particular. Corbin Hill is important because it is one of the few community-rooted institutions that recognizes the dangers of co-opting a narrative that is being shaped by big healthcare systems, tech companies and corporations; leaving out community organizations like CHFP, who have long built lasting trust in community health interventions. In the FiM work, CHFP is one the four-core organizations in the Fidelity, Equity, Dignity (FED) Collective on the cusp of providing a real meaningful alternative narrative and model to equity work at a national scale.”
- Shamar, Strategy Director, Senior Consultant, DAISA
"Corbin Hill serves as an example of how the expansion of food as medicine must emphasize community culture, values, and beliefs to create reformative and transformative health and food systems changes."
- Erika, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School
Feeding the Future:
We’re building an aligned food value chain that supports local economies, people and the environment.
"Rise & Root Farm is a QT+BIPOC centered farm rooted in social justice. Our focus is on providing greater food access to those most in need. Corbin Hill has been a great partner this year in helping us to connect with those who need access to fresh, affordable produce, while paying us a fair price so we can in turn pay our workers and ourselves fairly. We love working with Corbin Hill!"
- Jane, Rise & Root
“Choy Commons is a collaboration between Gentle Time Farm, Star Route Farm, and Choy Division, three Asian American led farms growing food naturally in the Hudson Valley and Catskill. We aim to establish a robust supply chain that efficiently produces, distributes, and transports produce from historically underserved growers in upstate New York to under-resourced communities in New York City. Efforts like this one have the potential to create meaningful connections between urban and rural communities, fostering relationships related to food, the environment, economies, and positive health outcomes. I wholeheartedly support investment in the innovative framework and demonstrated history of Corbin Hill to deliver food with dignity to communities throughout NY State.”
-Amanda, Choy Commons
We believe in the power of collaboration, mutual aid, advocacy, and economic opportunity to transform lives and communities through food, creating an equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system. Central to this vision is our partnership with the Black Farmer Ecosystem—a collective advancing land access, capital, policy change, and market power for Black farmers across New York State. Together, we are building the Farm Stop & Community Hub as a model where local farmers thrive, communities reclaim agency, and sovereignty takes root.
By contributing to our end-of-year campaign, Feeding the Block, Feeding the Movement, Feeding the Future, you are supporting vital work that ensures dignity and equity across the food value chain, from growers and producers to eaters.
Will you consider supporting Corbin Hill Food Project to reach our year-end goal of raising $100,000 to sustain our staff and programs—and to continue shifting power across the food system? With your support, we draw closer to a future of food sovereignty.
There are a few ways to get involved, and we encourage you all to participate:
Making a one time donation: any sized donation is appreciated!
Making a recurring donation: increase or establish a monthly donation which allows us to support and grow our programs
Sharing our donation page with your network: reach out to 2 or more friends who can join you in supporting Corbin Hill Food Project's year end campaign.