Athens Community Farm

Volunteer run, collectively grown, communally shared

We are a community supported micro farm in the heart of the Village of Athens, New York that grows and distributes fruits, vegetables, and herbs. We are built and maintained solely by community volunteers and welcome all our neighbors to come by and enjoy the space. Shares of the harvest are available to anyone who wants them at the farm or distribution locations.

What’s growing is for everyone—no cost or membership needed.

We’re raising funds to buy fresh veggies from local farms for our area food pantries. Click here to donate today!

How to get involved

Visit

Come visit the farm any time. We’re located just behind the Athens Volunteer Fire Dept. at 39 Third Street, Athens NY. Explore what’s growing in the beds, do a little weeding or pick your own veggies. The farm space is yours to explore!

Have an idea for the farm? Just let us know and we can work on it!

Pick-up

Stop by the D.R. Evarts library at 80 Second Street, Athens, NY on Saturdays from 10am – 11am. We’ll be set up with free, fresh veggies during their weekly Story Time event.

Rivertown Apts residents: We drop off the week’s harvest in the common room on Wednesdays around 8am.

Volunteer

Want to volunteer? Sign up for updates about upcoming work days and other volunteer opportunities. As volunteers we love to build beds, plant seeds, harvest produce and paint signs. Sometimes we drive veggies around the neighborhood. No experience is necessary to help out – those that know how will teach you and if no one knows, we learn together.

Donate

The farm relies on donations to keep it running. Please feel free to connect us with anyone that may be able to provide materials like lumber, soil, seedlings or tools. Have the capacity to donate directly?

We’re currently raising funds to provide produce to the Athens Food Pantry and Rivertown Senior Apartments this winter by purchasing CSA shares from Black Horse Farms. Donate today if you’re able!

Donate

Please make checks out to Sarah Grinberg w/ Athens Community Farm in the notes. Checks can be mailed to:
Athens Community Farm
c/o Sarah Grinberg
7 S Warren Street, Athens, NY 12015

Athens Community Farm 2021

A look at our first year

2,600

square feet of garden

2234

bunches/bags of produce donated, as of 12/31/21

25+

volunteers building, weeding, watering + more

45

varieties of vegetables, herbs and fruit grown throughout 2021

What’s growing

  • Beets
  • Broccolini
  • Carrots
  • Celery
  • Chard
  • Collard greens
  • Cucumbers
  • Eggplant
  • Garlic
  • Herbs
  • Kale
  • Lettuce
  • Melons
  • Peppers
  • Squash
  • Tomatillo
  • Tomatoes
  • Zucchini
  • Flowers
  • + More!

Partners

Long Table Harvest
EJA Elementary School
The Lo Farm
D.R.Evarts Library
Rivertown Senior Apartments
Black Horse Farms
Athens Food Pantry
High Hill Food Pantry
MX Morningstar Farm

News & updates from the farm

More news

Planted 5 beds in peas (snow and sugar snap) today! Over the next few weeks we’ll add radish, turnips and some early greens so that the garden is reading for picking by mid-May. It’s the last week of our winter Community Shares season! Thank you to @blackhorsefarm1 for sourcing fresh produce (local when possible!) for 20 weeks from Nov-March, making it possible for us to provide veggies to the Athens Community Food Pantry and Rivertown Senior Apts - almost! - year round. We shared over 1200 portions of greens, roots, squash + more this winter 🥕 🥬 🥦🍠 Spent a snowy Saturday morning planning produce orders for the 2023 Community Shares program with some of the @ganggreenefarmeralliance farmers! Thank you @nimblerootsfarm @stoneberryfarm @the_lo_farm! Measuring the farm for a new irrigation system! While we all loved our daily (sometimes 2x or 3x daily) hand watering shifts, drip irrigation will help up ensure consistent and appropriate water for all our plants and healthier and more abundant veggies for everyone! We’ll be installing in a few short months and have plenty learn about building and upkeep. Feel free to 💧 drop 💧 in any tips ;) Support the Community Shares program, a collaboration between The Athens Community Farm and the Gang Greene Farmer Alliance, helping area food pantries by coordinating with growers and producers, raising funds, and delivering fresh food directly to the communities they serve. As a result, local farmers are provided with a dependable sales outlet and funds at a critical point in their growing season while pantries receive consistent and dependable deliveries of hyper-local, nutrient-dense food. Oh hello! Winters are pretty quiet at the farm but our Community Shares program is still going strong with weekly deliveries of fresh produce sourced from @blackhorsefarm1. This week marks our 13th delivery of the season - that’s over 750 bunches, bags and quarts of veggies provided to the Athens Community Pantry and Rivertown Senior Apts. Two more months left of our cold weather distribution then we start growing for Spring! Thanks for a great second season farm community! We officially finished putting the garden beds to rest this Sunday with a final layer of leaf mulch. Major 🙏 to the Village of Athens DPW for dropping off a pile of right at the farm. Check out this weeks distribution of community shares from @the_lo_farm! Thanks to these generous farmers we were able to provide our Athens and High Hill pantries with sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, greens, squash, multiple varieties of radishes, carrots, bok choy, rutabaga… and I’m sure I missed something. This marks our 25th and final week of vegetables from The Lo Farm for 2022 and we’re looking forward to checking back in next spring. Thank you Leah, Orlando and Cooper! We reached our goal! Thanks to everyone that donated and shared over these past two weeks. We’ll be able to share 5 boxes of veggies (50+ items) a week from this Wednesday thru March. See you soon @blackhorsefarm1! We’ll leave the page up for a bit for anyone that still wants to contribute, all additional funds will go to providing fresh produce to the Athens community throughout the year.
Get in touch with any questions or ideas
athenscommunityfarm[at]gmail.com
Visit anytime
39 Third Street
Athens, New York 12015

(right behind the Athens Volunteer Fire Department)