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

We’ve got greens! 🥬 It’s a little bit of an adventure (signs coming soon, we promise 😉 but stop by the farm this weekend to pick lettuce, kale, collards and herbs! Scroll through for a look at the plants that are ready and a few that we’re keeping our eye on 🍓 🫐 🫛 It’s time to plant! Okay, we may have already started a little (check out those peas, radish and greens growing) but all these sunny days mean we can finally put in our warm-weather loving faves: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, etc... Join the farm crew SUNDAY, May 21 from 11-2 PM to transplant seedlings, set up irrigation, and get the garden ready for the u-pick season. Big thank you to Zack and Dale @deansmillcoxsackie for their seed donation! We’ll be sowing these peas, radish and other early season crops once our beds are ready. We’ll also have plenty of seeds to share at our workday this Saturday, April 22! Stop by the farm from 11-2 to pickup what you need to get your own garden started for the season! The first work day of the 2023 season is coming up next Saturday, April 22 from 11 AM-2 PM! Join the farm crew as we clear and prep beds, mulch pathways (see request: wheelbarrows!) and get the garden space ready to grow SO MANY VEGGIES – and herbs and flowers – this year. As we prep our gardens and ramp up the Community Shares program (veggies coming in June!) farm volunteers help with transporting local, grass-fed milk from @thefarmattheendofthelane to the Coxsackie Food Pantry! We’ll be adding to this offering soon, with milk going to Athens and Catskill pantries too 🥛 Thanks for the beds (and tasty coffee cake 😉 @ptart57 and @fredgillenjr ! This extra growing space means more veggies, herbs + flowers for everyone this year 🥕 🌿 🌸 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!
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)