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Fortunately for the Hudson Valley, since 2014, she has brought her visionary advocacy to bear at the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming in Cold Spring, NY. Under her leadership, Glynwood has become a national model for cultivating just, resilient food systems that help farmers, land, and communities thrive. Her work has earned her a voice on some of the most influential stages in agricultural policy, the prestigious Rachel Carson Award — and, at this year’s spring benefit (April 26, 2026), Slow Food Hudson Valley’s inaugural 2026 Snailblazer Award. Those of us who live or spend time in the Hudson Valley are far more fortunate than we may know to have this transformative non-profit in our backyards. Its impact can be felt in the working landscapes preserved from development that we delight in as views, a vibrant new generation of farmers working the land responsibly, flourishing farmers' markets and CSAs, partnerships between regional farms and soup kitchens and food pantries, and the seemingly boundless abundance of produce growing right under our feet. Earlier this month, Slow Food Hudson Valley’s Valerie Kathawala sat down for a wide-ranging conversation with Kathleen in her sun-flooded office on Glynwood’s 226 acres of working farmland.* It turns out that Kathleen’s work is as multifaceted and intricately interlinked as the Hudson Valley ecosystem itself. In this conversation, she explains how she came to food and farming, Glynwood’s core mission, how to think about the Hudson Valley as a bioregion, the challenges and wins for farmers and eaters in our area, why she calls farmers “frontline healthcare workers,” and what she and Glynwood are doing to lead the fight for good, clean, fair food for all. Most importantly, she shares the simple, joyful ways you can help advance this empowering mission. *This interview has been edited for clarity and concision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64e3bd83ecc1916e410935fd/987a2e9f-d6ff-4740-94f0-0ac91b2010d9/3096_240923-medium.jpg Blog - A Conversation with Slow Food Hudson Valley Snailblazer Award Recipient, Kathleen Finlay - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64e3bd83ecc1916e410935fd/b914db82-d26d-4c62-a799-c7659bd264a5/0941_240918-medium.jpg Blog - A Conversation with Slow Food Hudson Valley Snailblazer Award Recipient, Kathleen Finlay - So then the challenge is, how do we make good food more accessible? And that's really what we try to do at the core of our work. We do that very directly in a couple of programs. One is the Food Sovereignty Fund. This partners farms we want to help thrive in the region with hunger relief organizations like soup kitchens and food pantries. We pre-purchase a year's worth of food to be distributed to that food pantry throughout the year. What this does is twofold: it gets high-quality local food into that system. That system doesn't have a lot of food flowing through those types of organizations, the fresh food that does get there is usually donated, usually by big grocery store chains or as seconds. There are gleanings. There are things that a farmer wouldn't sell. They're the leftovers. But this program provides the first, highest-quality, most beautiful food imaginable to folks who need it the most. So that's a really important point: the right to dignified food and the right to access, to have it available to you. That's how the Food Sovereignty program differs from other wonderful programs that are trying to solve a food insecurity problem. We're trying to model food sovereignty. The other important part of that program is that it looks like a wholesale contract to the farmer, so it helps stabilize the income of that farm. They can purchase tools or seeds or hire workers, et cetera. It's a stabilizing source of income for them. So those are the two important outcomes, which then make the whole system more stable. Our other program in this area is called CSA is a SNAP. In that program, very similarly, we pay the farm up front and then a person who's using SNAP dollars can enroll as a CSA [Community Supported Agriculture] participant, which is usually challenging for those folks because you have to pay in one lump sum. So we've already paid or the farmer is taking the debt and then the SNAP participant enrolls in the program and then picks up their share using their SNAP dollars at a 50% discount. 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