Farm School NYC

🗣️🤲 Community Care as Resistance / El Cuidado Comunitario Como Resistencia Closing Panel

Moderated by FSNYC alum and Program Coordinator / Facilitator Frances Pérez-Rodriguez, our closing panel will center community care as resistance and uplift the ongoing work of revolutionary elders. 

We are honored to invite Brother Shep, a community organizer and NYC Black Panther, Walter Bosque, a member of the Young Lords, health worker, and radical acupuncturist, and Denise Oliver-Velez a powerhouse political activist, feminist, journalist, anthropologist, and the former Minister of Economic Development of The Young Lords Party and member of the Black Panther Party, to be in conversation with us.

Moderado por Frances Pérez-Rodriguez, alumna de FSNYC y Coordinadora / Facilitadora del programa, nuestro panel de clausura se centrará en el cuidado comunitario como forma de resistencia y destacará el labor continuo de los líderes revolucionarios.

Nos sentimos honrados de invitar a Brother Shep, organizador comunitario y miembro de los Black Panthers en la ciudad de Nueva York; Walter Bosque, miembro de los Young Lords, trabajador de la salud y acupunturista radical; y Denise Oliver-Velez, una formidable activista política, feminista, periodista, antropóloga, exministra de Desarrollo Económico del Partido de los Young Lords y miembra del Partido de los Black Panthers, a conversar con nosotros.

English to Spanish interpretation will be provided by / Interpretación de inglés a español por  

Link in bio to register ✊

🗣️🤲 Community Care as Resistance / El Cuidado Comunitario Como Resistencia Closing Panel

Moderated by FSNYC alum and Program Coordinator / Facilitator Frances Pérez-Rodriguez, our closing panel will center community care as resistance and uplift the ongoing work of revolutionary elders. 

We are honored to invite Brother Shep, a community organizer and NYC Black Panther, Walter Bosque, a member of the Young Lords, health worker, and radical acupuncturist, and Denise Oliver-Velez a powerhouse political activist, feminist, journalist, anthropologist, and the former Minister of Economic Development of The Young Lords Party and member of the Black Panther Party, to be in conversation with us.

Moderado por Frances Pérez-Rodriguez, alumna de FSNYC y Coordinadora / Facilitadora del programa, nuestro panel de clausura se centrará en el cuidado comunitario como forma de resistencia y destacará el labor continuo de los líderes revolucionarios.

Nos sentimos honrados de invitar a Brother Shep, organizador comunitario y miembro de los Black Panthers en la ciudad de Nueva York; Walter Bosque, miembro de los Young Lords, trabajador de la salud y acupunturista radical; y Denise Oliver-Velez, una formidable activista política, feminista, periodista, antropóloga, exministra de Desarrollo Económico del Partido de los Young Lords y miembra del Partido de los Black Panthers, a conversar con nosotros.

English to Spanish interpretation will be provided by / Interpretación de inglés a español por  

Click the link in bio to register ✊

🗣️🤲 Community Care as Resistance / El Cuidado Comunitario Como Resistencia Closing Panel

Moderated by FSNYC alum and Program Coordinator / Facilitator Frances Pérez-Rodriguez, our closing panel will center community care as resistance and uplift the ongoing work of revolutionary elders. 

We are honored to invite Brother Shep, a community organizer and NYC Black Panther, Walter Bosque, a member of the Young Lords, health worker, and radical acupuncturist, and Denise Oliver-Velez a powerhouse political activist, feminist, journalist, anthropologist, and the former Minister of Economic Development of The Young Lords Party and member of the Black Panther Party, to be in conversation with us.

Moderado por Frances Pérez-Rodriguez, alumna de FSNYC y Coordinadora / Facilitadora del programa, nuestro panel de clausura se centrará en el cuidado comunitario como forma de resistencia y destacará el labor continuo de los líderes revolucionarios.

Nos sentimos honrados de invitar a Brother Shep, organizador comunitario y miembro de los Black Panthers en la ciudad de Nueva York; Walter Bosque, miembro de los Young Lords, trabajador de la salud y acupunturista radical; y Denise Oliver-Velez, una formidable activista política, feminista, periodista, antropóloga, exministra de Desarrollo Económico del Partido de los Young Lords y miembra del Partido de los Black Panthers, a conversar con nosotros.

English to Spanish interpretation will be provided by / Interpretación de inglés a español por

Okay y’all were getting closer to FSNYC FOOD FUTURES SYMPOSIUM held this Sunday, May 3rd from 11am-6pm at the LES Girls Club! Don’t forget to 🤳🔗RSVP NOW/link in our bio

💫🔦WORKSHOP SPOTLIGHT #2
From Seed to Table: Honoring the Land

🤲🌳This workshop will provide students with a historical and contemporary overview of indigenous groups in North East America through the exploration of New York City’s landscape. Participants will learn about the significance of the Three Sisters and how we can utilize these values to care for our underserved indigenous families and land. We will pot up live plants and digest the knowledge gained. 

🤲🌳 Russell Rovira-Espinoza (he/him) is an educator and environmental steward with a deep passion for urban ecology and ethnobotany. Growing up in the LES, plants have always been considered relatives, nourishment, and medicine. Now having spent half of his life in Sunset Park, he is focused on working with his neighbors to support environmental stewardship and providing necessary tools and information.

🤲🌳 His work addresses the urban climate crisis, fosters sustainable community initiatives, and promotes a return to our ancestral practices. He is currently learning more about the significance and roles of trees in N.E cultures to support our urban forest.

🤲🌳 Makayla Marchese-Svetnik (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, horticulturist, and environmental advocate living in Queens, NY. She practices art between Queens and Gowanus. Originally from Gowanus, Brooklyn, she loves to explore the intersections of environmentalism, the human connection to nature, and self-discovery through photography work, documenting nature and the world around her.

🧑🏽‍🌾 MICRO GRANT AWARDS! $10,000 to 10 NYC urban growers who are increasing their capacity to provide nourishing food, education, growing skills, and spaces to cultivate community for NYC residents.

🪏Follow their pages to support and participate in their offerings!

🥕Every applicant can activate funding for their projects - the more we uplift the power of urban agriculture to our local city, state, and federal policy and budget hearings, the better for all of us.

🌻 Look out this summer and fall to learn more about what groups are doing to increase access to food and land in NYC.

🍄‍🟫Thank you to the selection committee for their work in co-creating an application and selection process for our first ever round of micro grants. FSNYC is committed to move this funding from the USDA and directly into the hands of land stewards here on Lenape land.

Let’s get into these MUSICAL GUESTS for our Food Futures Symposium on May 3rd 11am-6pm hosted at (RSVP is still open 🔗📲link in bio to sign up!)

🔮💃🪩 Sunny Cheeba is a multidimensional creative weaving her passions of DJing, farming and plant alchemy into her life’s work. Born and raised in the Bronx, she draws inspiration from the rhythms and sounds that make up her Nuyroican upbringing to give you that authentic home grown flavor. She is co-founder of Uptown Vinyl Supreme. A DJ collective preserving the analog roots of music, party and dance culture. From Park Jams to SummerStage, their crates have traveled throughout NYC living out the motto “Vinyl to the People” for the past decade.

🔮💃🪩Chispa .chispa is a music project that celebrates q***r love and land stewardship. Led by Farm School NYC alum, Julia Rocha-Nava and their collaborators Sebastián Ángel Romero, lee hooper, Jamila Ravel, Mobéy Lola Irizarry, and Daniela Serna, Chispa’s performances invite us to dance, sing, and heal together through songs that celebrate friendship, land stewardship, and collective liberation.

🔮💃🪩 Chispa will also be selling the coloring book that accompanies their debut album, Somos Medicina. All merch proceeds will go towards supporting Cami, Crys and Steph’s land project in Borikén!

🔮💃🪩 Cami, Crystal and steph are q***r Borikua farmers with over 10 years of experience as land stewards without land. For the past 3 years, they’ve been organizing and setting up the foundations for a land project that allows them to continue living in Borikén, in the face of forced displacement and gentrification as a result of the colonial reality of the archipelago. 

🔮💃🪩 Committed to creating a multigenerational project in relationship with campesines, q***r and trans folks and Black people; their land project will be educational, a community space and an agroecological farm.

🔮💃🪩 All funds will directly support acquiring land in Boriké and making this project come to fruition! Venmo:

⏰There’s still time to RSVP for FSNYC FOOD FUTURES SYMPOSIUM

👥Join us May 3rd 11am-6pm via for an action packed day:
🥬🔮Performances by DJ Sunny Cheeba & Chispa .chispa
🥬🔮 plant & herbalism workshops
🥬🔮 PANEL OF FOOD JUSTICE ELDERS
🥬🔮 free food
🥬🔮 healing space
🥬🔮 20+ vendors dedicated to other activities and goods

🤳✨RSVP NOW ! LINK IN BIO

⏰There’s still time to RSVP for FSNYC FOOD FUTURES SYMPOSIUM

👥Join us May 3rd 11am-6pm club for an action packed day:
🥬🔮Performances by DJ Sunny Cheba & Chispa
🥬🔮 plant & herbalism workshops
🥬🔮 PANEL OF FOOD JUSTICE ELDERS
🥬🔮 free food
🥬🔮 healing space
🥬🔮 20+ vendors dedicated to other activities and goods

🤳✨RSVP NOW ! LINK IN BIO

Introducing 🌾VOICES FROM THE LAND🪏

A collaborative op-ed and video series by Farm School NYC & Iris Crawford-Maskell at The New Harvest Project.

📣 Each episode of the series will highlight urban and rural farmers, policy that impacts their work, and what we can do to uplift legislation reflective of their needs to direct future policy decisions through a video interview on youtube and a farmer op-ed. Check it out at the link in our bio! 

We are speaking with Amara Ullauri, Ecosystem Steward of Ayni Herb Farm

🪻Amara is an Andean q***r and trans student of seeds, pollinators, and the moon. They began dreaming up the vision for Ayni back in 2017, as they leaned on plant medicine to support their well-being during exhausting farming seasons. They found growing herbs as a healing balm in itself, offering a different pace and awareness that felt more aligned with how they wish to move through this lifetime. Since then, they have been planting these dream seeds with various collaborations and groundbreaking lessons along the way.

📽️Watch the interview on youtube
📰Read Amara’s op-ed at the link in our bio
📣 Share widely to support visibility about farmers and policies impacting us all

This project is funded by the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation (RAF) through the Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA (RAFI).

Workshop Spotlight!
Intro to Ancestral Herbalism 

Link in our bio to RSVP Food Future Symposium
COMMUNITY CARE AS RESISTANCE
VENDORS, WORKSHOPS, FOOD, LIVE MUSIC
MAY 3rd 11AM-6PM

🌿🌾✨Join us on May 3rd during the Food Futures Symposium where participants will explore the foundational principles of Spiritual Herbalism, which are rooted in African ancestral practices.

🌿🌾✨In the first half of the workshop, we’ll discuss the spiritual and medicinal properties of plants, emphasizing the importance of plant medicine and how to utilize them as supportive allies for healing and liberatory practices.

🌿🌾✨The second half of the workshop will be a hands-on interactive activity. Participants will have the option to make either herbal bath salts that can be used for both medicinal and spiritual purposes, or an oxymel with ACV.

🌿🌾✨At the end of the workshop, each participant will have one item they made to take home.

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR:
🌿🌾✨EMI OKUN is a spiritual herbalist, urban farmer, writer, and educator who has been working to heal women and young people for over 20 years. A graduate of Farm School NYC in 2022, Emi works to educate her community on the importance of farming, gardening and plant medicine. Emi has developed rites of passage programs for several non-profit organizations in New York City, as well as monthly women’s healing circles.

🌿🌾✨She has been a community leader working as a director in youth centered programs. An initiated Yoruba priestess, Emi holds a master’s degree in philosophy and religion with an emphasis in Women’s Spirituality. She is passionate about wellness and dedicated to healing the community through Spiritual Herbalism, farming, education, advocacy, and counseling.

🌿🌾✨Emi Okun is the founder of The Black Mermaid Society LLC, a spiritual wellness lifestyle brand which promotes farming and herbalism, offering a sacred space specially curated for POC of the mystical persuasion.

Link in our bio to RSVP Food Future Symposium
COMMUNITY CARE AS RESISTANCE
VENDORS, WORKSHOPS, FOOD, LIVE MUSIC
MAY 3rd 11AM-6PM