Kingston YMCA Farm Project Community Work Weekend April 11-12
Kingston, NY – The Kingston YMCA Farm Project and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County’s Creating Healthy Places to Live, Work, and Play Healthy Communities Program are working to increase access to healthy food in midtown Kingston. We invite everyone to join us at the Farm this weekend for our Community Work Days – a fun way to prepare for a new, productive year! Come get your hands dirty Saturday, Sunday or both days!
Help spread compost and wood chips, clean-up beds, weed and seed to prepare the ground for a bountiful second season on Saturday and Sunday, April 11 and 12, from 10 am – 2 pm. The Farm is located at the corner of Susan Street and Summer Street, just south of the River Radiology building. Tools are provided and all ages are welcome! Please bring garden gloves if you have them.
About the Kingston YMCA Farm Project: Located on a previously vacant lot behind the YMCA on Broadway, the Kingston YMCA Farm Project started in 2014. Its mission is to educate and empower young people by directly engaging them in sustainable food production on an urban farm. Participants learn and practice the skills to produce their own food and to make healthy choices throughout their lifetime, while increasing the community’s access to fresh produce.
In its second year, the Farm Project will continue its successful food production and education programs. Partnering this year with the Chef’s Consortium, the Farm Project will bring hands-on cooking and recipe tasting to the young people working in the garden. The Dig Kids Program will be expanded to employ six youth for 6 hours a week, deepening their work in the garden, at the farm stand, and developing leadership. Thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley a refrigerator was purchased enabling more produce to be harvested and stored and sold within Midtown.
The Kingston YMCA Farm Project is supported by Alcoa Foundation, Creating Healthy Places to Live Work and Play (a project of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County), Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley, Rondout Savings Bank and the Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley.
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8 spaces available
Registration is closed for this event.
