Besides sprawling mansions and beautiful beaches, the East End is also known for its many restaurants and wineries. Suffolk County with its farms and vineyards is an agricultural powerhouse. But the region’s food banks also say that hunger, or at least food insecurity, is becoming a bigger problem.
As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, amid sunsetting emergency programs and rising inflation, hunger increasingly is at home across the Hamptons and the North Fork, experts say.
