The Youth Farm at HSPS

We live in paradise…. Slept under the redwoods last night, went to the ocean before sunrise to meditate. Opened my eyes to shafts of light coming down over Big Sur. Then later the rainbows came out to play. ❤️🌎♾🌲🌈

Doesn't feel like summer yet, but not even rain will stop our very first market of the season! Come thru 2:30-6:30pm every Wednesday. Green garlic, herbs, collards, kale, beans, peas and radishes, to name some. Grown at the Youth Farm with fruits from upstate.

These French breakfast beauties 😍

There are still tickets to our 4th annual Summer Supper fundraiser! This year our theme is A Midsummer Night's Farm Dream and Purslane Chef Arden Lewis is preparing a delectable meal along with our Summer Youth Tillers! Get your tickets at http://bit.ly/farmdream! Your ticket earns you a seat at a gorgeous communal table atop Brooklyn Grange's rooftop farm, and a chance to sample locally produced wines from Lieb Cellars and Bridge Lane Wine, Brooklyn-brewed beer from Sixpoint, Brooklyn grown produce -- all while savoring the incredible views! Your support helps us continue to provide meaningful, engaging, leadership-building opportunities for young people to learn on the farm!

Summer is almost here and our partners at Farm School NYC have some awesome courses about to begin! Find course descriptions, dates, and links below. Registration will close when each course is full.

Irrigation
Within the context of NYC’s watershed, we’ll cover the role of irrigation in farm systems, types of irrigation, how to set up these systems and where to source equipment.

Wednesdays will meet in Lower Manhattan and Saturdays will meet at La Finca del Sur in the Bronx.
Cost: $200
Register here.

Wednesday, 6/6, 6-9pm
Saturday, 6/9, 10am-2pm
Wednesday, 6/13, 6-9pm
Saturday, 6/16, 10am-2pm

Crop Management
This course will explore the best crops for NYC’s climate, w**d management, succession planning and planting, inter-planting, harvesting and post-harvest handling techniques, review of common crop plant families and their specific needs including vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruit, and summer pruning.

Wednesdays will meet in a central indoor location, and Saturdays will be site visits to growing spaces around NYC.
Cost: $280
Register here.

Wednesday, 6/20, 6-9pm
Saturday, 6/23, 10am-2pm
Wednesday, 6/26, 6-9pm
Saturday, 7/7, 10am-2pm
Wednesday, 7/11, 6-9pm
Saturday, 7/14, 10am-2pm
Wednesday, 7/18, 6-9pm
Saturday, 7/21, 10am- 2pm

Plant Health
This course is an introduction to pest and disease management for food crops. We will begin to identify common NYC pests and diseases, and discuss prevention and management strategies through an organic, ecological and multi-cultural lens.

Wednesdays will meet at a central indoor location, and Saturdays will be site visits to growing spaces around NYC.
Cost: $200
Register here.

Wednesday, 7/25, 6-9pm
Saturday, 7/28, 10am-2pm
Wednesday, 8/1, 6-9pm
Saturday, 8/4, 10am-2pm

COURSES Farm School NYC Courses

Friends! Due to the heavy rain predicted our open volunteer day for tomorrow morning has been CANCELLED!

Join us on June 2nd from 10am-1pm for our next open volunteer day which will hopefully be much sunnier 🌞

Interested in joining our team?! We are seeking a passionate and organized individual to join our team as Youth Programs Assistant and Farm Outreach Coordinator! Check out the job description here: https://bit.ly/2IShzNt 😊
Application deadline April 30th

"I believe all organizing is science fiction. Trying to create a world that we’ve never experienced and never seen is a science-fictional activity. And, to get to a world where there is no r**e, no homelessness, no inequality, is going to require a good amount of future casting and future thinking, aligning ourselves into the future, exploring and playing with how we’re going to get there."

- Adrienne Maree Brown

This we encourage you to be unapologetically bold, ambitious and creative in your planning and organizing!

Farmily! Please support our dear friends, leaders, mentors, and inspirational team - Devanie and Robert Jackson and the amazing Brooklyn Rescue Mission Urban Harvest Center Inc! This amazing space grows food for its pantry, and is a source of healing and reclaiming power and health the community! We CAN'T let gentrification push out this necessary and amazing resource for the community. Let's do this!

Click here to support Save Bed-Stuy Farm & Food Pantry organized by Robert Ennis Jackson Brooklyn Rescue Mission Urban Harvest Center (BRMUHC) grows and distributes nutritious food to families in need of assistance promoting a healthy lifestyle for both body and soul to the Central Brooklyn Community. Who we are: Co-founders Robert and Devanie Jackson have spent over 28 years in pub...

Please join us in welcoming our new Director of Youth Programming Kristina Erskine! Kristina is passionate about sharing the powerful lessons food teaches us about land, culture and history through art, stories and hands on learning. For over seven years, she has been uplifting youth around food justice ranging from farming and grassroots organizing to policy advocacy work. In all of her work, she focuses on highlighting the importance of young people challenging and redefining systems, and being agents of systemic change. She feels that believing in sustainable change means demonstrating belief in sustainable spaces and opportunities. Kristina strives to honor this belief in all her youth leadership work and has developed and facilitated many different youth focused events and workshops for organizations such as GrowNYC, The Levitt Foundation, Make the Road NY, Just Food and many more. Her perspective is rooted in the fact that she is a product of youth organizing and so she truly believes in the transformative energy of integrating the values and opportunities that learning about food offers within our schools, particularly in cafeterias and urban farms/gardens. She is currently pursuing a bachelors in Communication Design at New York City College of Technology. We are so excited about our new chapter with her!

Does this weather have you dreaming of spring? Well, you’re in luck, 2018 intern applications are live! Join us this season and get your hands in the soil!! Check the link in our bio for more info. .

First seeds of the 2018 season are sown!! Thanks and for keeping these babies warm for us!