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Farm School NYC trains residents in urban agriculture in order to build self-reliant communities Committed to grassroots social justice. NYC is your classroom.

Farm School NYC provides students with the tools they need to become effective and empowered grassroots leaders in the food justice movement. We do this by teaching effective community organizing and advocacy techniques as well as engaging in dialouges about larger social, economic, and racial, and justice issues. Community-based approach. Farm School NYC was created by a vast network of urban farmers, community gardeners, and anti-hunger and food justice advocates in the city. The program is thus created and run by grassroots leaders who know NYC's unique communities and food issues best. Accessible to all NYC residents. Farm School NYC aims to cultivate a student body representative of the incredible diversity of NYC. Our students come from a wide range of different backgrounds and life experiences and diversity is crucial to the success of our program. As part of our commitment to social justice and diversity, tuition is on a sliding scale based on income and household size. In addition, the time commitment and schedule of the program is designed to be accessible to students working full time jobs. In order to accommodate a wide range of students, we hope in the future to provide childcare during course offers and to offer any necessary bilingual programming. Farm School NYC classes take place at a wide variety of city gardens, farms, and other unique classroom spaces in order to engage in city specific place-based education. What will I learn? Students will explore a multitude of different subjects related to urban agriculture, education, and food justice. Below are some of the main topics featured in our program but please see our Course Offerings page for more details on the classes.

- Urban agriculture growing techniques
- Business planning and marketing skills
- Community organizing and leadership skills
- Food based education

10/08/2026

‼️✨Do you love land stewardship and food justice in NYC? Let’s grow together!

WE’RE HIRING for Co-Executive Director positions :
🍂🤝Executive Director, Resource Mobilization
🍂🤝Executive Director, Operations & Finance

🍂🤝We are interested in folks with experience in food justice, a commitment to collaborative leadership and strong financial skills. Sounds like a great fit?

‼️✨APPLY BY 10/16 FOR PRIORITY CONSIDERATION
‼️✨ROLLING UNTIL 11/01/26
‼️✨LINK IN BIO FOR MORE INFO, APPLY TODAY!

10/07/2026

❄️🫚🌴 Transitioning to Winter with Diasporic Herbal Wisdom Workshop

Facilitated by Kai kai dp

⏱️✨TUES 10/20 6-8:30PM Virtual, on Zoom
⏱️✨SAT 10/24 12-4PM In Person, location TBD

🔗🤳LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER NOW!
💸✨Folks can choose pay-what-you-can and register for free or add a small donation before checking out.

During this two part series, we will:
❄️🫚🌴Explore ancestral perspectives of nourishing our bodies in attunement with the Earth’s seasonal transitions.
❄️🫚🌴Consider how as diasporic communities in NYC, we can engage with tropical ancestral plants for healing in symbiosis with plants and seasons of the Northeast bioregion. Guided by Philippine traditions of 4 ancestral plants – Ginger, Coconut, Hibiscus, and Sugarcane – we will harness the cross-cultural connections of these plants across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
❄️🫚🌴 Touch on the political/historical geographies that have birthed the exchange of these plants across continents and what it means for us to keep our traditions alive on lands we may not be Native to.

About the facilitator:
❄️🫚🌴 Kai Delgado-Pfeifer is a Filipinx American cultural organizer weaving community through ancestral farming, herbal healing, and folk arts. Kai is based between New York City, the Philippines, and Berlin. For nearly 10 years, Kai has been walking a path of reclaiming Philippine plant medicine (food & herbs), Hilot (Philippine body therapies & ancestral healing), and natural agriculture.

10/01/2026

Lifting up our sixth land steward on🌾VOICES FROM THE LAND

A collaborative op-ed and video series by Farm School NYC & Iris Crawford-Maskell at The New Harvest Project. 📣 Each episode highlights urban and rural farmers, policy that impacts their work, and what we can do to uplift legislation reflective of their needs to direct future policy decisions. Check it out at the link in our bio!

Black Yard Farm The Black Yard Farm sits on 89 acres in Washington County, New York. For founder Ashanti Williams, it was never about simply producing food. As a Black woman farmer raised in the Bronx by activists and land stewards with roots in the Carolinas, Ashanti is passionate about working with animals and building sustainable farm systems. Experiencing a lack of safe, inclusive learning environments for people of color in animal agriculture inspired her to create those spaces for others.

Black Yard Farm is an opportunity to hold space for this knowledge and build new restorative systems that value all beings present, working the land and beyond. We are owed the same opportunities to build sustainable, profitable businesses that nourish our lives and communities.

That is a radical idea in a capitalist society, and we must hold on to it.

📽️Watch the interview on youtube Farm School NYC
📰Read Ashanti’s op-ed at the link in our bio
📣 Share widely to support visibility about farmers and policies impacting us all

Credit: Video Editor - Julian Mejia officialjmejia

This project is funded by the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation (RAF) through the Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA (RAFI).

09/29/2026

Lifting up our sixth land steward on🌾VOICES FROM THE LAND

A collaborative op-ed and video series by Farm School NYC & Iris Crawford-Maskell at The New Harvest Project. 📣 Each episode highlights urban and rural farmers, policy that impacts their work, and what we can do to uplift legislation reflective of their needs to direct future policy decisions. Check it out at the link in our bio!

Black Yard Farm The Black Yard Farm sits on 89 acres in Washington County, New York. For founder Ashanti Williams, it was never about simply producing food. As a Black woman farmer raised in the Bronx by activists and land stewards with roots in the Carolinas, Ashanti is passionate about working with animals and building sustainable farm systems. Experiencing a lack of safe, inclusive learning environments for people of color in animal agriculture inspired her to create those spaces for others.

Black Yard Farm is an opportunity to hold space for this knowledge and build new restorative systems that value all beings present, working the land and beyond. We are owed the same opportunities to build sustainable, profitable businesses that nourish our lives and communities.

That is a radical idea in a capitalist society, and we must hold on to it.

📽️Watch the interview on youtube Farm School NYC
📰Read Ashanti’s op-ed at the link in our bio
📣 Share widely to support visibility about farmers and policies impacting us all

Credit: Video Editor - Julian Mejia

This project is funded by the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation (RAF) through the Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA (RAFI).

09/25/2026

☔️🍃 Gearing up for this weekends weather here in NYC? Learn HOW TO PROTECT YOUR GARDEN DURING A NOR’EASTER! Stay safe out there y’all 🤞✨

☔️🍃Secure Trellises and Tall Crops: Interweave and tie down tall plants (like tomatoes, vine crops, or sunflowers) tightly to their supports using flexible plant ties. Ensure the trellis structures themselves are anchored securely into the beds or heavily weighted down.

☔️🍃 Clear Drainage Paths: Ensure rooftop drainage plates, bioswales, and gutters are completely clear of debris so excess water can escape immediately without pooling.

☔️🍃 Utilize Raised Beds and Grow Bags: Soil based ground plots are highly susceptible to flash flooding. Planting in raised beds or fabric grow bags elevates root systems above standing water, keeping them from suffocating.

09/18/2026

🚨Interested in learning and connecting during this year’s NYC Climate Week 2026?☀️🌧️

Join us for CLIMATE RESILIENCE facilitated by Sea Matias, of Serra Vida Farm

🗽🌎✨Part 1: Tuesday, September 22nd, from 6-8pm, via Zoom

🗽🌎✨Part 2: Tuesday, September 29th, from 6-8pm, via Zoom

🚨WORKSHOPS ARE STILL OPEN, LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER TODAY🔗🤳

Climate Resilience explores how NYC gardens, upstate farms, and our regional food system can prepare for heat, drought, flooding, smoke, frost, severe weather, and other climate extremes. Using current New York climate data and the developing 2026–27 El Niño as case studies, we’ll combine climate literacy with practical growing strategies, emergency planning, food-system preparedness, and collective resilience.

HOW CAN EL NIÑO AFFECT NYC 2026-27?

🗽🌎✨El Niño is a natural climate pattern characterized by the unusual warming of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. This shift disrupts normal atmospheric circulation, causing dramatic changes in global weather patterns, rainfall, and temperatures.

🗽🌎✨New York currently faces a roughly 50% to 60% chance of seeing higher than average precipitation between December and February, while its chance of higher than average temperatures during the same period are about 40% to 50%.

09/17/2026

Lifting up our fifth land steward on🌾VOICES FROM THE LAND

A collaborative op-ed and video series by Farm School NYC & Iris Crawford-Maskell at The New Harvest Project. 📣 Each episode highlights urban and rural farmers, policy that impacts their work, and what we can do to uplift legislation reflective of their needs to direct future policy decisions. Check it out at the link in our bio!

Rather than building entirely new food systems, New York should strengthen its existing networks. The forthcoming city-owned grocery stores proposed by Mayor Mamdani’s Administration NYC Mayor's Office Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani offer an opportunity to do so. Will local farmers have a seat at the table? Will worker-owned cooperatives and the existing local food ecosystem be part of the initiative? How might local farmers and this Mayor’s office work together to strengthen food access?

Steph Wiley, who is dedicated to ensuring that every New Yorker can access healthy food through the worker-owned food distribution cooperative, Brooklyn Packers. His focus is on creating a blueprint for neighborhood owned food hubs that connect QTBIPOC farms and aggregators with both communities in need and new markets. These hubs improve health and economic outcomes while promoting better nutrition. By envisioning worker-owned hubs encompassing wholesale, retail, and agriculture businesses, he works to create abundant job opportunities and promotes year-round access to fresh, local, affordable, and culturally relevant food for all New Yorkers. By addressing basic needs and fostering community connections, he believes these hubs can help create more resilient neighborhoods that thrive. Steph resides in Poughkeepsie, New York with his family.

📽️Watch the interview on youtube Farm School NYC
📰Read Steph’s op-ed at the link in our bio
📣 Share widely to support visibility about farmers and policies impacting us all

This project is funded by the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation (RAF) through the Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA (RAFI).

09/15/2026

Lifting up our fifth land steward on🌾VOICES FROM THE LAND

A collaborative op-ed and video series by Farm School NYC & Iris Crawford-Maskell at The New Harvest Project. 📣 Each episode highlights urban and rural farmers, policy that impacts their work, and what we can do to uplift legislation reflective of their needs to direct future policy decisions. Check it out at the link in our bio!

Steph Wiley, who is dedicated to ensuring that every New Yorker can access healthy food through the worker-owned food distribution cooperative, Brooklyn Packers. His focus is on creating a blueprint for neighborhood owned food hubs that connect QTBIPOC farms and aggregators with both communities in need and new markets. These hubs improve health and economic outcomes while promoting better nutrition. By envisioning worker-owned hubs encompassing wholesale, retail, and agriculture businesses, he works to create abundant job opportunities and promotes year-round access to fresh, local, affordable, and culturally relevant food for all New Yorkers. By addressing basic needs and fostering community connections, he believes these hubs can help create more resilient neighborhoods that thrive. Steph resides in Poughkeepsie, New York with his family.

📽️Watch the interview on youtube Farm School NYC
📰Read Steph’s op-ed at the link in our bio
📣 Share widely to support visibility about farmers and policies impacting us all

This project is funded by the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation (RAF) through the Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA (RAFI).

09/11/2026

Join us for Climate Week 2026☀️🌧️CLASSES ARE NOW LIVE‼️ REGISTER TODAY LINK IN BIO🔗📲

🗽🌎✨ Climate Resilience facilitated by Sea Matias, of Serra Vida Farm

🗽🌎✨ PART 1
TUESDAY 9/22
6-8pm
virtual on Zoom

🗽🌎✨ PART 2
TUESDAY 9/29
6-8pm
virtual on Zoom

🗽🌎✨Climate Resilience explores how NYC gardens, upstate farms, and our regional food system can prepare for heat, drought, flooding, smoke, frost, severe weather, and other climate extremes. Using current New York climate data and the developing 2026–27 El Niño as case studies, we’ll combine climate literacy with practical growing strategies, emergency planning, food-system preparedness, and collective resilience.

09/08/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

🌎🍃Join us during Climate Week for a series of classes and panel discussion focused on our food system, agriculture, and what preparedness looks like for our communities.

🌎🍃We have Farmer Sea Matias from Sierra Vida Farm kicking us off with a two part CLIMATE RESILIENCE course on Tuesday 9/22 and Tuesday 9/29. We are also offering a panel discussion regarding OUR FOOD SYSTEM IN CLIMATE CHAOS on Tuesday 9/24; super special guests are on the line up. Don’t miss out on these offerings!

🌎🍃Stay tuned for more details.

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https://linktr.ee/FSNYC

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