Anabel's Newsletter (3/25) 🍞🎟️

Hello Anabel’s shoppers. We hope everyone is hanging in there before spring break!!!

‼️We will still be open for normal hours this week Wednesday-Friday so please come buy and do some last minute grocery shopping before spring break‼️

We will be closed Saturday and all of next week and will reopen when students return.

As part of the Anabel’s mission, we are committed to serving anyone and everyone local and nutritional foods at affordable prices. We understand that when we open our doors to anyone and everyone, it is also our job to maintain a community space that not only reflects the staff, but our diverse customer base. We want to get to know you better because we ultimately would not be here without you. You are part of our team!

Anti-Racist Action Grant Application Cycle Spring 2026: can be found here

In 2020, a coalition of Cornell University students who are members of Anabel’s Grocery, Cornell Students 4 Black Lives, Dilmun Hill Organic Farm, and the Hydroponics Club created The Anti-Racist Action Grant. Grounded in the belief that every student, regardless of socioeconomic background, deserves access to fresh, nutritious and affordable food, the grant was created to support student projects and organizations working on anti-racist initiatives to address the many systematic inequalities that persist on campus.

The Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFED) advised during the creation of the grant and often stated, “food justice is social justice is food justice.” Issues of food security and food justice cannot be separated from broader social justice and systemic oppression. While the anti-racist action grant will not solve most of the issues we see at Cornell regarding food insecurity and injustice, it is a small way to bring student groups together and start fighting the bigger battle for food and social justice.

By selling produce generously donated by Dilmun Hill Student Farm and Hydroponics Club, nearly $3,000 has been raised in two years. The grant has supported the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and Basic Needs Coalition in making 50 meal kits for students before Thanksgiving. The grant has also helped discount food orders from Watermargin, a primarily BIPOC and low-income cooperative living house.

The grant is designed to reduce the financial barrier for groups on campus and in the community who are contributing to addressing issues of food injustice and racism. Thank you to our student food producers and Anabel’s Grocery for making the grant possible and for guidance from Basic Needs Coalition throughout the grant administration.

You can learn more about our Anti-Racist Grant Application here

This semester, Echo is collaborating with on-campus organizations to collect and create student-friendly flexible recipes that will help students develop creative-cooking skills that empower Cornell’s student community to increase their food agency.

Flexible recipes are instructional recipes designed to easily substitute ingredients based on availability (BBC), saving users money and reducing food waste! We are focused on creating a community driven initiative that increases students’ food security, saves students money, and enables them to make more sustainable food consumption choices.

BASE

Take a kitchen staple available at home, such as rice, potatoes or eggs.

VEGETABLES/FRUITS

Add vegetables and/or fruits you have on-hand.

PROTEIN

Add an available protein of choice!

+1 “MAGIC TOUCH”

Personalize your meal with condiments, sauces, seasonings, herbs, and more that you already have at home!

There are tons of events happening this week that give the opportunity to support and learn more about Anabel’s mission to provide healthy, fresh, and local produce to our community.

We are holding a raffle fundraiser from Monday 23rd to Friday the 27th. You can enter the raffle using the following link: here

Please be sure to add a note with you name and email so that we can contact you if you win!

We are also holding a few tastings and cooking demos this week!

We would love for you to take a break from all the studying and consider stopping buy one of our events!!!

Product Highlights:

• Siggi’s plant based yogurt (Greenstar)

• Indian Milk and Honey Probiotic Yogurt Smoothie (Greenstar) *Local BIPOC Vendor*

• Good Karma Unsweetened Flax Milk (Greenstar)

  

• Swiss Chard (Plowbreak)

• Red Kale (Plowbreak)

Check our newsletter for any information about upcoming events, new products, and all other things Anabel’s Grocery. Any suggestions and feedback are welcome, please reach out at anabelgrocery@gmail.com.

All the best,

The Anabel’s Team 🍓🍊🍋🍐🫐🍆🧄