FARM CITY TOUR

We’re thrilled to be pouring Big Bottles of Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse, Local 1 and Local 2 at this celebration of urban farming.

Farm City Tour
September 18 & 19, at 10am & 2pm
Red Hook Community Farm, Bed Stuy Farm, BK Farmyards, Eagle St. Rooftop Farm, East NY Farms!, and Secret Garden Farm

Part of the series Farm City: Where Are You Growing?

Explore bold agricultural projects in contemporary Brooklyn through this special tour, offering a view of current practices in urban farming, ranging from beekeeping and composting to caring for laying hens, and rainwater harvesting. A 28-seat bus running on compressed natural gas (CNG), the cleanest fuel available, will shuttle guests to each site. The Tour will conclude at Old Stone House in Brooklyn, one of the last surviving structures from the borough’s impressive agricultural past. There, guests will view a display of provocative, small-scale urban farming projects, and enjoy foods made by Communal Table with ingredients from the farms.
Farms include:

Red Hook Community Farm (A project of Added Value) features the largest and most varied compost operation in Brooklyn. Beekeeping. Chicken keeping. Youth farmers on its 3-acre site grow 12 tons of produce each year for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and weekly Farmer’s Market.

Bed Stuy Farm supplies fresh produce to adjacent food pantry, serving 1,000 people per week.

BK Farmyards, a scattered site farming enterprise, features Egg CSA at Imani Gardens and an innovative chicken coop design.

Eagle Street Rooftop Farm features a beehive, a chicken coop, raised beds, special light soil mix, CSA, restaurant supply, youth programs, cooking classes, compost from restaurants and a pickle plant.

East New York Farms! engages youth and community farmers in composting, rainwater harvest system, culturally-appropriate planting and running a Farmer’s Market.
Secret Garden Farm has a unique mushroom farm, an extensive compost facility, teaching programs and hosts the Bushwick Farmers Market.
Artists Include:

Communal Table–brings art, ideas, activism and food right to the table. nycommunaltable.blogspot.com

Ian Cheney & Curt Ellis–Truck Farm is a Wicked Delicate film and food project: a mobile community farm, a documentary about urban agriculture and a public art and education project–from the team that created the acclaimed documentary King Corn.

Bryony Romer–“nanofarming” demonstration projects, including miniature container farms and associated interpretive materials, serve to underscore nanofarming’s real potential to grow food while transforming public awareness of urban space

Hernani Dias–Re:Farming the City builds bridges between software and hardware to link urban farmers through special technology highlighting local gastronomy, and concluding in a transformative meal that forges new communities.

Brooklyn Utopias–Guests may visit the related exhibition opening September 17 in the Second Floor Gallery of Old Stone House investigating utopian agrarian visions for the

Borough of Kings, featuring artists WORK.AC (New Ark), Mary Mattingly (Waterpod), Eric Sanderson (Mannahatta), Hugh Hayden, Kim Holleman, and several others.