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SNAP Online Guide

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As online grocery shopping becomes more common, ensuring that SNAP participants can access these options is an important step toward more equitable food systems. This guide, Modernizing Food Access with SNAP Online, is designed for small and community-based food retailers interested in accepting SNAP benefits for online purchases. Drawing from AdkAction’s experience, the guide walks through the process of becoming SNAP online authorized, outlining the time, resources, and key steps involved. It also highlights how expanding digital sales and delivery can help reach customers in food deserts, reduce barriers for those with limited mobility, and create new market opportunities for local food providers.

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Read more about the article Don’t Be Salty ADK

Don’t Be Salty ADK

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AdkAction's 'Don't Be Salty ADK' public outreach campaign, launched in 2023, encourages responsible salt application practices for households, businesses, and municipalities in the Adirondack region.

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Keeseville Community Arts Festival

Keeseville Community Arts Festival

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AdkAction is partnering with the Town of Indian Lake to transform a closed, capped landfill into an eight-acre native pollinator habitat. This three-year demonstration project will test how unused landfill sites across the Adirondacks can be restored to support bees, butterflies, and other vital pollinators.

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Land Bank Incubator

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The Land Bank Project’s goal is to address the affordable housing shortage for low and middle income families in the Adirondacks by taking a lead role in catalyzing the development of a regional land bank.

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Compost for Good

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The goal of the Adirondack Compost for Good project is to help Adirondack communities turn food and other organic “wastes” into high-quality compost. This process keeps nutrients in the community, which builds local resilience, heals soils, and helps reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Farmacy

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Local food has innumerable benefits, yet not everyone has easy access in our communities. The Farmacy Project works to make local food easier to find, buy, and eat, even when other grocery options are not available. This partnership between AdkAction and Keeseville Pharmacy serves as a model for bringing healthy local food to rural communities. We replicated the model at Mountain Weavers Farm Store in Port Henry in August 2019.

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