Urban Farm Syndicate

This Sunday UFS will be at Cityscape at Socrates Sculpture Park. We will be part of the opening of this sculpture exhibition exploring the relationship between nature and the city. Come to the opening on Sunday, May 2nd, see some great art, and support us by buying some seedlings. We’ll be selling cherry tomatoes, peppers (ancho, anaheim, cayenne, jalapeno, hungarian), cucumber, cilantro, scallions, chives, spinach, oregano, fennel, and rosemary. Join us there!

Urban Farm Syndicate is currently raising funds to incorporate as a non-profit. Our target is only $750, which means that your small donation will make a huge difference! Donate today, and check this page for an updated view of our progress toward this goal.

Goal = $750
Progress as of May 5: $390
We need: $360

Urban Farm Syndicate is currently raising funds to incorporate as a non-profit. Our target is only $750, which means that your small donation will make a huge difference! Donate today, and check this page for an updated view of our progress toward this goal.

Goal = $750
Progress as of March 22: $80
We need: $680

BK Farmyards has been expanding, and is in the process of creating a chicken coop at Imani Garden. They need volunteers! Urban Farm Syndicate will be volunteering today and beyond:

Imani Garden is located at Schenectady and Dean in Crown Heights, BK

What to Bring
Please come prepared with closed toe shoes, gloves & tools if you have them, and a lunch

In less than one year, Urban Farm Syndicate has transformed from a conversation around a table at the Tip Top to a funded enterprise that is developing articles of incorporation, seeking 502(c)3 status and building relationships with private and public landowners.

It’s time to celebrate, and thank everyone who’s helped us begin this adventure!

Open Invitation to anyone in Brooklyn who wants to make food and jobs out of blight! RSVP to fisher6000@gmail.com for more information.

What is Urban Farm Syndicate?

Urban Farm Syndicate is an action-oriented social entrepreneurship venture that partners with private and public landowners to farm vacant lots in a systematic, modular and repeatable way.

Our goal is to turn Central Brooklyn’s biggest problem into its greatest resource by working with landowners instead of against them. 13% of the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, for example, is vacant land. This vacant land creates opportunities for crime, vermin and dumping, and drives down property values. We believe this land also has the capacity to give rise to the very things that grow a community: dignified living wage jobs; a thriving local economy based on delicious, healthy food and an enduring educational resource for local schoolchildren and academia alike.

By fostering temporary, mutually beneficial relationships with private and public land holders, farming intensively and focusing on job creation, we are creating an economic model in which every stakeholder in Central Brooklyn benefits from the presence of vacant land.

Who is Urban Farm Syndicate?

The members of Urban Farm Syndicate are residents and activists that come together with a range of experience and skills. We are farmers, artists, planners, developers, designers and researchers with a shared vision that urban farming can create sustainable growth in this community.