Photo by Valery Rizzo
In the wake of 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, Edgemere Farm’s founders transformed an abandoned city-owned lot on Beach 45th Street into a lush and productive space, where a wide variety of fresh and organically-grown vegetables, flowers, and herbs are now cultivated. Chickens, bees, and many varieties of pollinators call the farm home as well.
Supported by NYC Parks / GreenThumb, GrowNYC, and Partnerships For Parks, the farm is a volunteer-run, zero-profit organization with a mission of education, food justice, and increasing capacity for both the production of food and the processing of food waste on the Rockaway Peninsula.
Providing the surrounding Edgemere community (a federally-designated “food desert”) access to fresh produce and education is a core part of our mission.
To that end, we strive to be a place of teaching and learning about growing with our neighbors and friends of all ages and backgrounds.