Families across the Adirondacks are gaining new, reliable access to fresh, locally produced food through AdkAction’s Fair Food Card, now coordinated in partnership with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) offices
Each winter, road salt helps keep Adirondack roads safe. When the snow melts, that salt can wash into nearby streams and groundwater, where it can persist for decades and harm
During the Covid-19 pandemic, AdkAction offered Emergency Food Packages, which provided free boxes of locally produced food delivered directly to homes across the Adirondacks. But we knew hunger didn’t end
In 2025, AdkAction worked on two vastly different scales of pollinator habitat. At I-87’s High Peaks Rest Areas, just 36 square feet of gardens, arranged in six hexagonal beds, help educate the area’s 12 million visitors about the importance of Adirondack pollinator conservation. At a very different site in the remote community of Indian Lake, identical plants are beginning to take root in test plots atop an eight-acre capped landfill.
In 2025, AdkAction responded to two very different moments of need with the same focus: listening closely, acting quickly, and staying connected to the community.
An open letter from Sawyer Bailey, Executive Director of AdkAction In the Adirondacks, change is everywhere. A store closure affects how a whole town shops. A road washout reshapes a