Huddle for Hunger Community Food Drive and Festival

To combat hunger in our community, the Buffalo Bills Foundation and Wegmans are teaming up for their annual Huddle for Hunger initiative. This initiative aims to raise awareness of food insecurity in our region and support local hunger-fighting charities.

Grassroots Gardens WNY will be joining local nonprofits and food access organizations at this year’s Huddle for Hunger Community Food Drive and Festival!

Join us on September 22 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Highmark Stadium for a family-friendly event.

Donate to the food drive (and get a tote bag!)

The festival will feature a food drive, benefiting FeedMore WNY, local food pantries, soup kitchens, and warming houses. Donors will receive a tote bag and entry into the Huddle for Hunger festival.

Festival activities

The 2026 Huddle for Hunger festival will feature a diverse range of vendors, including the twenty Huddle for Hunger charities, Wegmans, and the Buffalo Bills Foundation. Other features of this event include:

• Activities led by local nonprofits (we’ll have our blender bikes there, weather permitting!)
• Sample cantaloupe from Allen Family Farms
• Appearances by Bills players, alumni, and Billy Buffalo
• Learn about Huddle for Hunger offerings (led by Wegmans and the Buffalo Bills Foundation)
• Photo opportunities
• Music by DJ Milk

Huddle for Hunger charities

This year’s Huddle for Hunger initiative benefits twenty local food access organizations, including:

• Buffalo City Mission
• Buffalo Go Green
• Chautauqua County Rural Ministry
• Community Missions of Niagara Frontier
• Connecting Communities in Action
• FeedMore WNY
• Field & Fork Network
• Food Shuttle of WNY
• Friends of Night People
• Grassroots Gardens WNY (That’s us!)
• Hearts for the Homeless
• Heart, Love & Soul
• Massachusetts Avenue Project
• Providence Farm Collective
• St. Bonaventure’s Warming House
• St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy
• St. Susan Center
• Salvation Army
• West Side Community Services