Farms and Gardens

Location: 138th Street and Grand Concourse, Bronx

About: La Finca del Sur is the first women-run urban farm in the Bronx. We provide community member plots, as well as a market garden. We work with schools, job training programs, and community groups to provide opportunities for learning, physical activity, and the joys of being in the garden. We welcome new members, and work especially hard to provide women with opportunities for leadership, skill-b...

Location: 514 Rockaway Ave at Sutter, Brooklyn

About: We are in the construction phase - making a beautiful farm of very high raised beds. We need help sanding, hauling wood, assembling beds, hauling soil, pickaxing and leveling the site. volunteer days are fun and you will go home feeling happy and wake up feeling pleasantly sore! We need people every weekend in April and perhaps the beginning of May as well!

Location: 897 Broadway Brooklyn NY 354 Stockton St Brooklyn NY, Brooklyn

About: BUSHWICK CITY FARMS IS A NETWORK OF OPEN SPACES RUN BY NEIGHBORHOOD VOLUNTEERS THAT PROVIDE FREE FOOD, CLOTHING, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE COMMUNITY. CENTERED IN THE HEART OF BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, THE FARMS CREATE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE ACTIVE MODELS OF RESPONSIBLE FOOD PRODUCTION. IN ADDITION TO THE FARMING PRACTICES AT THE FARM’S MAIN LOCATIONS, WE BUILD AND HELP MAINTAIN VEG...

Location: 120 Ingraham St, Brooklyn

About: Hi there! This is a call to volunteers and attendees for EcoStation:NY's benefit bash, Winter Solstice Feast. EcoStation founded Bushwick Campus Farm & Greenhouse this year, with the 4 schools of Bushwick Campus high school. We also operate Bushwick Farmers' Market, and Farm-in-the-Sky. The Winter Solstice Feast is a BIG DEAL this year: Hosted at Brooklyn Fire Proof's 7000 sq-ft Nut Roaster ...

Location: 890 Flatbush Avenue enter on East 21st Street at Kenmore Terrace, Brooklyn

About: The Church Avenue Communal Garden is a new community garden located on the grounds of the historic Flatbush Reformed Church property at Church and Flatbush Avenues. The project is a partnership between Sustainable Flatbush and the Flatbush Reformed Church, and includes an edible garden, a native plant streetscape along Church Avenue, and a 3-bin compost system. As we begin our first planting se...

Location: Newkirk Avenue and East 8th Street, Brooklyn

About: Compost for Brooklyn, founded in March 2010, has transformed a vacant lot into a community composting project and thriving refuge for native plants and community members. Every week, neighbors come to the garden to relax, get their hands dirty, and drop off their veggie scraps, coffee grinds, and other organic waste. In the summer of 2011 alone, we received over 8,600 pounds of organic waste...

Location: United Community Centers, 613 New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn

About: The mission of the East New York Farms Project is to organize youth and adults to address food justice in our community by promoting local sustainable agriculture and community-led economic development. East New York Farms! is a project of the United Community Centers in partnership with local residents.

Location: 130 Palmetto Street Bushwick, Brooklyn

About: The Campus Farm is a student led farming project at the Bushwick Campus High Schools. We grow a variety of seasonal veggies, some using hydroponic systems and sell the vegetables at an on site farmers market.

Location: Brooklyn Fire Proof East 119 Ingraham St, Brooklyn

About: This is EcoStation's first rooftop project, atop a large industrial building (with café!) in Bushwick. We recently co-founded a 3,100 sq ft organic farm at Bushwick Campus high school, and operate two Bushwick Farmers' Market locations, where the produce from the farm is sold (the revenue is then reinvested in the school's farm). EcoStation:NY is a young, Bushwick-based nonprofit exploring the in...

Location: 677 lafayette avenue brooklyn ny- at Marcy Avenue & Clifton Place, Brooklyn

About: Hattie Carthan Community Farmers' Market shoppers have the option to sign up for a season of farm-fresh, local produce. Season Members pick up a Mixed Market Basket weekly that contains about five different varieties of seasonal fruits and vegetables. Members have the option to order a basket for one or a larger basket for couples and/or families. The Single Mixed Basket has enough produce to l...

Location: Hattie Carthan Community Garden Marcy Avenue and Clifton Place, Brooklyn

About: This market season we are hosting our annual volunteer drive at the Hattie Carthan community garden - Corner of Marcy and Clifton Place on Friday June 15th 6pm to 7pm. Saturday June 16th from 11am to 2pm and Sunday June 17th 11am to 2pm at the Hattie Carthan herb farm 49 Van Buren Place between Tompkins and Throop. We are inviting volunteers to show up to register your talents and avail...

Location: 49 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn

About: The Hattie Carthan community market is embarking on creating a new farmsite. We are asking volunteers to show up to help us clean the site and create growing beds from May 15th thru th 23rd. Please call Yonnette Fleming at 718-638-3566 or write to hattiecarthangarden@yahoo.com to learn more

Location: 600 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn

About: HSPS Youth Farm Mission * To provide a outdoor classroom for hands on learning. * To provide affordable produce to the community. * To improve the quality of life within the community. * To empower students to become land stewards Hands-on Education The garden will be integrated into the school curriculum, providing opportunities for hands-on learning and integrated curriculum. The gard...

Location: 312 S. 3rd St., Brooklyn

About: The Human Impacts Institute is an environmental nonprofit that organizes community-based tree stewardship events several times a year. Our tree stewardship projects include aerating and mulching tree beds, building tree guards, and planting native perennials. The Growing Our Roots program of the Human Impacts Institute is an official Green Points Education Partner of the Million Trees Progr...

Location: Schenectedy Pacific, Brooklyn

About: We run a small chicken operation at the Imani Garden in Crown Heights in partnership with the New York Restoration Project. The goal of our operation is to provide a local sources of sustainable and affordable protein to our community, education opportunities for youth and adults, and to pilot small scale livestock operations in Brooklyn. Our eggs are sold through a Egg CSA.

Location: 87 Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn

About: Imani I has a large weeping willow tree with provides much shade. It has a large chicken coop with around 50 chickens, a berry patch and several fruit trees. We are building a solar powered pond system and attaching to our water catchment system which captures water from a nearby church roof. The garden is 60x100 feet. Imani II is a corner lot and gets full sun. We have 11 planting beds an...

Location: 104 Moore Street, Brooklyn

About: We need volunteers every Friday & Saturday from Noon to 5pm to help us build the aquaponic system. We are building an AQUAPONIC farm to grow approximately 1000 pounds of Tilapia and all sorts of greens, fruits and veggies. Through this garden we will teach people about this exciting growing technique. The Moore Street Market Farm works in conjunction with the Moore Street Market and will be h...

Location: 1194 Prospect Ave, Brooklyn

About: Starting March, 2010 Prospect Farm became a community project development toward producing healthy local food as an alternative to industrial food. Our objective is diversity in food production and membership. We are slowly creating healthy soil through our community composting project and farm without chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides. Prospect Farm is a community association w...

Location: 266 Skillman Avenue, Brooklyn

About: We have a need for help with our composting system. We recently built a three bin compost system which will handle our 70 CSA share members weekly drop off and 40 garden members drop off of composted matter. We need volunteers to help turn the piles, gather and put in "browns" into the piles and temperature gauge the piles. This can be done one time or on a weekly basis.

Location: 373 Dewitt Avenue, Brooklyn

About: Services for the UnderServed (SUS) provides housing and support services to over 4,000 New Yorkers with special needs. The Urban Gardening Program will allow residents at a number of our supportive housing facilities (four in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx) to grow their own organic produce this year. Throughout the summer and early fall, SUS needs 4 volunteers to help to maintain these gardens....

Location: 421 Chester Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212, Brooklyn

About: Services for the UnderServed (SUS) provides housing and support services to over 4,000 New Yorkers with special needs. The Urban Gardening Program will allow residents at a number of our supportive housing facilities (four in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx) to grow their own organic produce this year. Throughout the summer and early fall, SUS needs 4 volunteers to help to maintain these gardens....

Location: 620 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn

About: Services for the UnderServed (SUS) provides housing and support services to over 4,000 New Yorkers with special needs. The Urban Gardening Program will allow residents at a number of our supportive housing facilities (four in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx) to grow their own organic produce this year. Throughout the summer and early fall, SUS needs 4 volunteers to help to maintain these gardens....

Location: 832 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn

About: Services for the UnderServed (SUS) provides housing and support services to over 4,000 New Yorkers with special needs. The Urban Gardening Program will allow residents at a number of our supportive housing facilities (four in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx) to grow their own organic produce this year. Throughout the summer and early fall, SUS needs 4 volunteers to help to maintain these gardens....

Location: 421 Chester Street, Brooklyn

About: The garden is in the backyard of a supportive housing program; many of the residents were formerly homeless and/or have a diagnosis of mental illness. The goal of the garden is to grow organic vegetables and flowers.

Location: 373 Dewitt Avenue, Brooklyn

About: This garden is in the backyard of a supportive housing residential building for formerly homeless individuals, many who also have a diagnosis of mental illness. The goal of this garden is the residents grow their own organic vegetables and flowers.

Location: 832 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn

About: This garden is in the backyard of a supportive housing program for formerly homless veterans with a diagnosis of mental illness. Meals are provided on-site to the residents. The goal of the program is to grow organic vegetables (and flowers) to supplement purchased produce.

Location: 620 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn

About: This garden is in the backyard of a supportive housing program; most of whom were formerly homeless and have a diagnosis of a mental illness. The goal of this garden is to grow organic vegetables and flowers.

Location: 215 Richardson St. Brooklyn, NY 11222, Brooklyn

About: From http://tenthacrefarms.com/whoarewe Welcome to Tenth Acre Farms! We are Brooklyn's newest addition to the NYC urban farming community. Started in Early 2009 by Jordan Hall, Bennett Wilson, and Adam Wilson, in Mr. Hall's backyard, we have now expanded to the abandoned basketball court at St. Cecilia's School at 215 Richardson St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Our goal is to provide the fres...

Location: 514 Rockaway Ave at Sutter Brownsville, Brooklyn

About: This is our first year building the garden at PS 323. We need help hauling soil, sanding boards (old scaffolding from BIG!NYC) sealing boards, and screwing them together to make our beds. We need help pickaxing and leveling the site.

Location: 108 noble street, Brooklyn

About: The GIFT garden (Greenpoint Interfaith Food Team) is a volunteer project to provide fresh produce for the hungry in the community. Our group was founded as an interfaith project in 2009 by volunteers from Greenpoint Shul and Greenpoint Reformed Church. The Garden has enjoyed two successful seasons at the Shul providing fresh organic vegetables for the food pantry and soup kitchen at the Reforme...

Location: 5th Ave. at 3rd St. Brooklyn NY 11215, Brooklyn

About: Located in a reconstructed 1699 Dutch farmhouse that was central to the Battle of Brooklyn, the Old Stone House is a museum and community resource that explores the American Revolution, colonial life and Brooklyn.

Location: 380 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn

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Location: 236 E 124th st, Manhattan

About: Carver Garden is a thriving vegetable garden in East Harlem, part of the Bronx and Manhattan Land Trusts, is one of 32 permanently preserved community gardens located throughout the Bronx and Manhattan. The Land Trusts' mission is to "mobiliz[e] communities and develop garden leaders" in the city. Blossoming and bearing fruit in vacant lots and on street corners, these gardens not only provide ...

Location: 171 west 85th street, Manhattan

About: We would like to have a clean up done in preparations for spring, as soon as possible.

Location: Governor's Island historic Colonel’s Row Governor's Island, Manhattan

About: http://earthmatter.org/ Earth Matter NY seeks to reduce the organic waste misdirected into the garbage stream by encouraging neighbor participation and leadership in composting.

Location: 255 W43rd St. Times Square Hotel, Manhattan

About: The Horticultural Society of New York (The Hort) enhances New York City’s environmental and cultural life by providing unique educational, vocational and therapeutic outreach programs, library resources and exhibitions. The Hort is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and relies on the generous support of individuals to continue providing our unique services to all New Yorkers. Founded i...

Location: E. 110th (btw. Lex & Third), Manhattan

About: Below average, probably, in terms of light, even for NYC, since some tall buildings are nearby, but the soil and the willingness/ability to tend is OK.... If there's a "mission" here, apart from the usual, it's that the sponsor of the garden serves a community high in new-to-America-ness, and there's an ongoing focus on health (supplementing the core focus on literacy.) ... There are some (most...

Location: 521 W 126th St, Manhattan

About: St Mary's Urban Farm was founded in 2012 and is a recipient of the United Way of New York City Seed Grant. We grow fresh produce for the church food pantry, which serves 60 hungry families in West Harlem each week. We have 26 raised beds and over 1000 sq.ft. in production. The farm is also undertaking a soil bioremediation project using Activated Effective Microorganisms (AEM/Bokashi) to de...

Location: 141 W. 85th st. #1, Manhattan

About: I am an Ayurvedic Chef who is working with local schools and rec centers teaching culinary classes and gardening skills. The current school is PS 50 in East Harlem.

Location: st. vincent urban farm 7th avenue and 12th street st mary urban farm 521 west 126 street, Manhattan

About: HSNY has worked with the st. vincent farm which we began in partnership with baily house as the first farm administered completely by the HIV positive population that was served by the old st. vincent. though the space is slated to be renovated by the new owners it will remain a public space and HSNY and the community farmers are encouraged by the new owners to care for the space until and afte...

Location: 255 West 43rd Street, Manhattan

About: Common Ground is a supportive housing project located in the neighborhood surrounding Times Square in Manhattan. Over 50% of our tenants are either formerly homeless or living with mental illness (or both). One of the programs that we offer is a community garden club, up on our rooftop terrace. This gives tenants an opportunity to grow their own plants and learn to work as a team. Many of our t...

Location: State Street at Pearl Street, Manhattan

About: The Battery is one of New York City’s oldest public open spaces; it is located at the tip of Manhattan overlooking New York Harbor. This spring the Battery Conservancy has created a one-acre Urban Farm where local schools and community groups are planting, cultivating and harvesting vegetables and herbs.

Location: 37-18 Northern Blvd, Queens

About: Brooklyn Grange is a commercial organic farm located on New York City rooftops. We grow vegetables in the city and sell them to local people and businesses. The goal is to improve access to very good food, to connect city people more closely to farms and food production, and to make urban farming a viable enterprise and livelihood. Although we function as a privately owned and operated enter...

Location: 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, New York, Queens

About: The Queens County Farm Museum's history dates back to 1697; it occupies New York City's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland and is the only working historical farm in the City. The farm encompasses a 47-acre parcel that is the longest continuously farmed site in New York State. The site includes historic farm buildings, a greenhouse complex, livestock, farm vehicles and implements, ...

Location: 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Queens

About: The Queens County Farm Museum dates back to 1697; it occupies New York City's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland, and is the only working historical farm in the city. The farm is 47-acres and is the longest continuously farmed site in New York State. The site includes vegetable fields, livestock, an orchard, an herb garden, historic farm buildings, and a greenhouse. The farm is ow...

Location: Astoria Blvd and Main Avenue, Queens

About: The Western Queens Compost Initiative (WQCI), a program of Build It Green!NYC, works to increase the capacity of local communities to create and manage composting efforts in western Queens. Our overall goal is to 1) provide sustainable local composting infrastructure; 2) educate New York City residents on the composting process and encourage them to compost organic materials; and 3) reduce the ...