Farm School NYC Carpentry students measuring and preparing to cut wood at the Good Life Garden
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As spring transitions into summer, our students are increasingly gathering on the land to learn together. First year students recently completed their Carpentry course with co-facilitators, Luz Cruz and Alex Gomez. Meeting on Saturdays at the Good Life Garden in Bushwick, Brooklyn, students worked together to build an arbor trellis for squash and other crops. Sharing gratitude to Kofi Thomas and all of the Good Life garden members for welcoming us into the space, and hope the trellis supports the garden and its produce for years to come. |
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Farm School NYC is growing into our mission by expanding our team. We're excited to bring on a part-time Communications Coordinator, as well as two additional positions for projects in collaboration with partnering organizations. Application deadline: June 6.
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Farm School NYC Communications Coordinator (Part-Time)
Be our storyteller! Work with us to craft this newsletter, drive our social media, manage our website, and help implement our individual giving program and create our annual report.
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Black Farmers United NYS Membership Coordinator (Part-Time)
Help grow, engage and retain the membership of Black farmers and Black-led food and farming organizations who are building power and equity in New York State agriculture.
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Community Engagement Consultant (Contract)
Design and implement a community engagement process and manage a feasibility study to ensure a planned urban farm reflects the assets and needs of its East New York community.
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Students, Alumni and Faculty...
Get Ready to Confirm Your Board Members!
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Community - Thank you for nominating a dynamite slate of potential Board Members. So far, 11 of the 31 nominees have chosen to move forward to the next step -- creating brief videos in response to this prompt: How do you feel you would support Farm School NYC's mission, vision, and values? Later this month, we will invite students, alumni and faculty to view these videos, and then confirm their preferred representatives. Please see our Board Evolution Process for more information.
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High Tunnel Program Updates |
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Claudia continues to expand our work on high tunnels and urban stewardship. Here are a few updates:
Your opinions were so valuable! Thank you for responding to our NYC High Tunnel Interest Survey. This is informing our new course which we will launch later this year.
We're helping build a High Tunnel. Students, alums and faculty are joining a greenhouse build with Black Yard Farm Collective at Corbin Hill Farm next weekend. If you are an alum or current second-year student and want to join us, email claudia@farmschoolnyc.org ASAP.
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Looking for volunteers? Let us know... |
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We often receive messages from supporters who'd like to volunteer with us, but our volunteer capacity is very limited. If you have an aligned project or organization and would like for us to send volunteers your way, please let us know by completing this brief form. We'd love to help you find community volunteer support!
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"Until we are all free, we are none of us free." ~ Emma Lazarus.
This sentiment is especially resonant on Juneteenth, the annual commemoration of the day the last group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were informed of their legal emancipation–two years after the Emancipation Proclamation made it official in 1863. Juneteenth became an official New York state holiday last year, and we hope you are able to join a celebration or create one of your own.
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Juneteenth Celebration at Alice Austen House, Staten Island
Saturday, June 19, 2021
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Enjoy performances by Pamela Sneed, a New York-based poet, writer, performer and visual artist, author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery; and andriniki mattis is a non-binary poet, who has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Poets House and The Poetry Project.Click here for more info.
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