Apprentice Melissa LaFontaine harvests the candy potatoes growing on the farm!
Amazing to get such exquisite tubers from those plants after harvesting their veggies all summer time.
Sunday, May 10, 2020
King Farm| Looking for Part-Time Youth Farm Director|Farm Archive
The Youth Farm is a unique partnership between the High School for Public Service and Green Guerillas. It is a one acre diversified production farm engaging the school community and surrounding neighborhood in farm-based experiential learning. Farm products are sold at a weekly farmers market increasing community access to fresh affordable food.
The Youth Farm operates as a collective, with all staff working together to make important decisions. The Director is responsible for meeting with Youth Farm staff and community to set goals and program plans for the Youth Farm, and most importantly, fundraising for these programs. This person is responsible for staff and farm sale invoicing, tracking accomplishments, staff reviews and organizing strategic planning sessions.
The applicant should be an enthusiastic self-starter with experience in collective work environments. The ideal candidate should be equally comfortable taking initiative and working collaboratively in a close-knit team environment. Experience with grant writing and grassroots fundraising is a must for this position, as is knowledge of the current funding environment. Gardening and horticulture knowledge and familiarity with the food justice movement a plus.
We are committed to creating a workplace that respects and values diversity – we strongly welcome candidates from all backgrounds as we are committed to hiring staff that reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of our community.
Roles and responsibilities include:
- Fundraise to support Youth Farm programs through grant writing, crowd sourcing, special events and other dynamic methods
- Build and sustain relationships with foundations, cultivate private donors, manage grassroots fundraising campaigns
- Maintain partnerships with the Wingate Schools that support the goal of enhancing youth engagement and learning on the Farm
- Facilitate staff meetings and strategic planning sessions
- Track staff hours and accomplishment for accountability and reporting purposes
- Responsible for bookkeeping and accounting, including staff invoicing, spending, and accounting for farm sales
- Work with Green Guerillas on fundraising, events and organizational development
- Work with and hire interns to help with special events, outreach and office work
- Work with Wingate administration to evaluate how the school’s objectives are being met
Qualifications:
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Grassroots fundraising and non-profit development experience required
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Commitment to expanding food justice and knowledge about urban farming
- Experience in leadership, meeting facilitation and collective decision making processes
- Farm/gardening experience or horticultural training a plus
- Manage work hours and duties efficiently
- Excellent computer and communication skills, including Microsoft Office (Excel and Word); knowledge and experience using accounting software such as Quickbooks a plus
Please send a cover letter and resume to Bee Ayer at Bee(at)bkfarmyards (dot)com. The letter should include details of your availability, as well as details about your relevant experience and training.
Applicants must be available on weekdays during the day, and occasional evenings and weekends. This position is a paid part-time position and also includes fresh harvested vegetables, flower and herbs. Applications due September 26th, position starts November 11th.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
King Farm| WEEK 17 of CSA!|Farm Archive
Wow we are already on week 17 of our CSA this season! I cant believe it!
King Farm| What is that Beautiful Purple Bean?!|Farm Archive
Hyacinth Bean or Lablab pureus, or as more commonly known in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago as the SIEM BEAN!
The next year Molly planted them for the fantastic orchid searching flowers! I had forgotten about them as a culinary delight until certainly one of our awesome instructors Nirvani Bissessar became strolling round someday and requested for some, commenting that they have been a staple in Guyana.
... And so now we percentage them with you.
Make certain you cook dinner the beans nicely, and trade the water too. If they're below-cooked they can be toxic. The whole plant is fit for human consumption, the leaves may be cooked like spinach or eaten uncooked, and the roots can also be chopped up or pureed.
King Farm| FARMRAISER! This Thursday Nov 7th|Farm Archive
BK Farmyards Annual Fall Benefit
BK Farmyards celebrates The Youth Farm at the High School for Public Service.
Good Enough to Eat!
Food, Music and Drinks
November seventh 2013
7:30-10pm
Delicious liquids and meals from the quality neighborhood and sustainable restaurants, breweries and vineyards, raffles of vast delights, stay acoustic music, wonderful hobnobbing and real farmers in clean clothes!
The chandeliers will be flickering kindly, the last of the fall flowers adorning, the warmth of history held by the old Mansion's walls as the air grows crisp... It will be a Brooklyn night to remember.
at the beautiful 375 Stuyvesant Mansion home of the Freebrook Academy in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn
Food & Desserts from:
Blue Marble,Seersucker, SCRATCH bread,Bread Love,Nightengale 9,Communal Table...
Drinks from:
Jimmys No. 43. 61 Local,Kombucha Brooklyn,Industry City....
All funds will support the Youth Farm at the High School for Public Service.
BUY TICKETS HERE
Thanks to the many restaurants and businesses partnering to make this event amazing, more to come!
Friday, May 8, 2020
King Farm| Donate and Help Spread the Love! |Farm Archive
Support farm based education in Brooklyn! Spread the Word!
DONATE TODAY!
The Youth Farm serves as an outdoor classroom for students at the High School for Public Service. We want to provide this opportunity to all 5 schools at Wingate Campus. The Farm provides a welcoming space for hands on and interdisciplinary education. Classes on the farm engage students who struggle with the methods and structure of classroom education, and specifically serves to help those students who most need extra support to be engaged and interested in school. On the Youth Farm students engage their brains and bodies in completely different ways then indoor lessons. With such a diverse range of topics and styles of engagement possible, the sky is the limit.
With such a diverse range of topics and styles of engagement possible, the sky is the limit. Here are some examples of classes:
· Gym classes that engage the mind as well as the body through soil preparation, compost turning and incorporation
· Science lessons that are hands on and bring science to life through plant and ecological observation
· Nutrition lessons involving picking, preparing and eating where students can taste, see and discuss the value of nutritious food choices
· Art classes that beautify the neighborhood through outdoor sign and mural painting
The Youth Farm’s School Liaison will meet with teachers from all Wingate schools and help them to alter their current curriculum to incorporate hands on, farm-based learning to meet academic goals.
As a result of your support, hundreds of new students from 6th to 12th grade will have classes on the farm. Our goal is for these lessons to make the learning process joyful and eye-opening for students, showing them meaningful learning can happen outside the classroom through direct experience.
King Farm| Newsletter #20|Farm Archive
I cant believe it! Newsletter #20!!
Check it out for a few important records on big adjustments on the farm....
Dear CSA Members,
If you haven’t yet given to our online fundraising IOBYcampaign,there is still time! Your membership in the first all grown in Brooklyn CSAs to date demonstrates your commitment to organic sustainable food and to funding our education programs to make our farm a springboard for many urban projects going forward. It is our hope that Wingate campus graduates of today become the urban farmers of tomorrow. That is where you come in.
The Youth Farm has successfully provided a welcoming space for hands-on and interdisciplinary education to the students enrolled in The High School for Public Service since2009. Stepping outside of the traditional classroom environment and onto the farm engages the students minds and bodies in completely new and stimulating ways than is possible in an indoor setting. The farm landscape fosters curiosity and allows for more flexibility with a wide array of students who excel at learning in non-traditional ways. It is our mission that we reach as many young people as possible!
We need to make bigger our applications to the alternative faculties that incorporate the Wingate Campus that may enlarge our reach to over 1200 college students!
There is a countless array of topics and varieties of engagement emerge as feasible on the farm:
- Science lessons come to life through plant and ecological observation
- Nutrition lessons start at soil nutrient quality: students pick, prepare and eat delicious food. They can taste test for themselves and discuss what nutrition means to them.
- Art classes beautify the neighborhood with outdoor signs and mural paintings. Sketching classes can inspire the next great artists of the 21st century.
- Gym classes work all muscles (including the brain!) while cultivating soil and turning compost
DONATE TODAY!Amounts small and large are welcome. It all adds up!
Please give and let your friends and families know what is important to you by sharing it on your favorite social networks. If you can’t afford to give, please consider sharing ourcampaign via email, Facebook, Twitter or by any other means you can.
Thanks and wish to look you at the farm soon!
P.S.
Here are a few examples to percentage on Facebook:
I help farm-primarily based schooling in Brooklyn!
Please assist by contributing to The Youths Farm Online Fundraising IOBY Campaign.
Https://ioby.Org/mission/boom-pleasure-mastering-through-farm-primarily based-training-wingate-campus-colleges
And check out their awesome video!
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