For over a decade, our farm has provided Edgemere (a federally-designated “food desert”) with a safe community space and access to fresh produce.

We’ve since expanded our mission by establishing the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Edgemere Farm Works, an organization dedicated to providing educational, agricultural, musical, and cultural programming to the historically underserved and environmentally disadvantaged neighborhood of Edgemere, Queens, and the Rockaway Peninsula at large.

For many years running, we have maintained an annual program of cultural events and educational workshops that we host at Edgemere Farm each summer, which are always completely open, accessible, and free to the public.

This includes multi-disciplinary art and music events, site-specific visual art installations and dance performances, and educational workshops for people of all backgrounds and ages. Our programming highlights latine, BIPOC, and queer/nonbinary artists and educators.

Edgemere Farm is uniquely positioned as both a community farm and as a safe communal space in Far Rockaway, Queens, where we're able to welcome people of all backgrounds to participate and learn about gardening, sustainability, ecology, fresh food, nutrition, food waste, and composting, among other vital subjects.

The music and arts programming we provide is special in that it not only exists in communion with the natural world within our lush garden, but it also sparks within our attendees curiosity in what we do at the farm, and brings people to this place that they might not otherwise find themselves.

In the same way, our educational programming teaches and inspires members of our community both young and old, breaking down barriers and making accessible what might otherwise be out of reach in our historically underserved area.