A food forest grows in Brooklyn! Field Meridians has secured land for the first iteration of our food forest dreams and we need your support resourcing it.
After two years of community visioning work, we have the opportunity to partner with NYC public school, High School for Public Service, at the Wingate Educational Campus to build an aquaponic learning garden and a food forest at an underutilized 1-acre site, a former production and educational farm.
A food forest is an edible garden that mimics natural forest ecologies and is a neighborhood-rooted response to food insecurity, environmental stress, and a disconnection from land and community.
FM is convening a coalition of farmers, landscape designers, urban planners, community organizers, and educators for this project. Oko Farms, NYC’s only aquaponic learning farm, will be our primary advisor for an aquaponics program — Yemi Amu, Oko’s founder, first learned how to farm at this exact site when it was a production farm.
With big dreams comes the need for big resources! Can you donate today?
Between now and December 15, join our Farm Tools Club! When you donate, choose a machine or piece of equipment to sponsor and we will name it after you or your loved one!
As a part of our Farm Tools Club, we’ll paint your name on the tool that you choose. You’ll even be invited to a special happy hour and fundraising briefing this fall to celebrate the club.
If you would like to explore making a larger donation from a DAF, family or company foundation, please email soph@fieldmeridians.org.
Field Meridians is a 501c3 non-profit organization and an artist collective committed to creating tools for ecological resilience through social practice. With our neighbors in Crown Heights, we are braiding together art practice, environmental justice, and collective visioning to build a food forest—a green civic space and an edible ecology. Through public programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages our community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty and infrastructures of repair.