Located in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on Lenape territory, our Plants to the People Farm is a sanctuary for the many beings—water, animal, vegetable, mineral—who call this land home.
Plants to the People Farm
We first seeded our 2 1/2 acre farm in 2023.
After years of tending small plots in community gardens across the Hudson Valley, the opportunity to lovingly tend to land for the long-term is a gift. We are deeply grateful to this place for inviting us into collaboration, and are committed to staying in rooted and right relationship.
Our farm is both a refuge for our human and beyond-human-community and a hub for resistance, resilience, and regeneration.
As tenders, we do not use any machinery, choosing instead to tend to every plant by hand.
In a moment in history when technology is distancing us from our humanity, we believe in the value—and necessity—of touch. We are committed to growing those skills, such as seed saving, that keep us in intimate and embodied connection with our plant kin.
We grow herbs, vegetables, fruits, and flowers to weave into our herbal remedies.
Whatever we can't grow, we lovingly source from neighboring farms. We share these remedies both through our Community Supported Apothecary (CSA) program and at our Plants to the People mutual aid gatherings. Our homegrown and heart filled remedies are a reflection of our belief that we are not well unless our neighbors are well, too.
Our farm is also an educational space for people of all ages to connect with both diasporic and native plants.
In addition to growing annual and perennial herbs, we grow plants—such as maiz, squash, beans, sorghum, papas, peppers, and Palestinian watermelon—who have been distorted and/or commodified by colonization and capitalism. Over the years, our farm has hosted gatherings dedicated to creating compost toilets, celebrating the solstice, and sharing seeds. As we look toward the horizon, we hope our farm can also be a place to learn those skills we will need to make it through this precarious time, such as firefighting, and water-wise irrigation.
