392 2nd Street, Troy, NY 12180 · (518) 274-5920 Facebook · Founded 1986
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This is what a neighborhood looks like.

Meals shared, furniture delivered, teens learning, gardens growing, neighbors showing up for one another. A glimpse of everyday life at TAUM.

A large group of walkers with handmade signs gathered for the CROP Hunger Walk.
The bird mural on the TAUM building, birds carrying branches across a bright blue wall.
Our home and mural on Second Street
The Free Food Fridge outside TAUM, marked Free Food and Comida Gratis and decorated with painted handprints.
The Free Food Fridge, open every hour
Neighbors of all ages eating together at long tables in the TAUM community room.
Everyone's welcome at the table
A large group of walkers with handmade signs gathered for the CROP Hunger Walk.
The CROP Hunger Walk
The volunteer crew lined up in front of the TAUM Furniture Program truck.
The furniture crew
The TAUM community garden in full growth, raised beds thick with vegetables.
The garden in full season
A neighbor stocking the Free Food Fridge outside TAUM while a child looks into the lower shelf.
Take what you need
Five volunteers with shovels and a wheelbarrow, smiling at the camera on a work day.
Strong backs, big hearts
Tables laid out with crates of milk, bread and produce ready for the grocery distribution.
Thursday groceries, ready to go
A gardener reaching into the leaves to pick a ripe purple eggplant.
Picked this morning
Teenagers working together around a table at the Teen Tech Center.
Teen Tech Center in action
The volunteer crew gathered in the finished community garden beside the brick wall.
The day we built the garden
A volunteer in an apron working in the TAUM kitchen.
Where Monday dinner comes from
Rows of paper grocery bags decorated with hand-drawn hearts, ready to go out.
Bags packed by hand
The Veggie Mobile truck parked on Second Street beside the TAUM mural.
The Veggie Mobile comes to Second Street
A gardener holding up a large cabbage leaf grown in the TAUM garden.
Grown out the back
A Regional Food Bank "Meals in Motion" truck parked outside TAUM on Second Street.
Meals in motion
Teenagers spread out across the community room, some at tables and some on couches.
The community room on a weekday
Jars of sauce and preserves made from the TAUM garden harvest.
Put up for the winter
A group of neighbors and clergy gathered outside the Free Food Fridge on Second Street.
Blessing the fridge
A volunteer on a ladder with a paint bucket, working on the brick exterior of the building.
An old building needs handy people
A handful of ripening cherry tomatoes held up in the garden.
Tomatoes from the beds
Volunteers sorting boxes of donated food in the community room.
Sorting what comes in
Newly built raised beds filled with soil in the garden behind the building.
New beds, ready for spring
A class in progress in the community room, participants at laptops facing a projected screen.
Real skills, real paychecks
A gardener holding out a green pepper just picked from the bed.
Straight from the bed
Volunteers unloading crates from a delivery truck onto a hand cart on the street.
Delivery day
A hand-drawn welcome sign reading Troy Area United Ministries, 392 2nd Street, Troy NY.
Welcome to 392 Second Street

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We love celebrating our community. If you’ve got a photo from a TAUM event, meal, or workday (or you’d like to help document what happens here), reach out to lmalatesta@taum.org.

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Flyer for TAUM Holiday Market
TAUM Holiday Market November 14, 2026 Download TAUM Holiday Market
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