Happy Muffin Day! Foodlink turns 41

Dec. 19 is Muffin Day here at Foodlink, where we celebrate how it all began. Muffin Day represents the day in 1978 that Foodlink founder Tom Ferraro made a public plea for donated food to support Rochester’s local food pantries. The kind folks at Thomas’ English Muffins responded and Tom went to the factory to […]
Film screening draws 150+ Rochesterians to discuss hunger, local food system

If a few dozen people showed up to The Little Theatre on Wednesday night for a screening of a documentary about a somber topic — hunger and diet-related illness in America — event organizers likely wouldn’t have been too surprised. After all, the snow was blowing sideways, the roads were a slippery mess and the […]