About
Conveniently located a few hours from New York City and minutes away from Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, we are a small-scale regenerative farm passionate about ecological relationships.
We are inspired to protect the ecosystem and biodiversity of the land we steward by building human relationships with the uncountable local species assemblies, waters, and energies that sustain us and the people we serve.
We do this by working with nature, contributing to the local food system and revering the food we grow. We love to feed people and show them a good time.
✶ Philosophy
We use regenerative methods of farming such as low till hand tool cultivation, rotating crops, and spreading compost, organic lime and fertilizer to help enrich soil quality. We practice sustainability by relying on rainwater catchment systems to irrigate our crops and solar panels to power tools and grow mats.
Permaculture design shows up in our companion planting, growing flowers to attract pollinators, prioritizing perennial crops, and digging swales and ditches to minimize erosion and evenly spread rainwater throughout the landscape as well as support beneficial amphibian and insect habitats.
✶ Our Seeds
We are establishing a market garden growing culturally meaningful seeds including arugula, sweet and Thai basil, cilantro, jalapeños, buena mulatas, shishitos, collards, cucumbers, green beans, a few African bean varieties, peas, kale, lettuce, bunching onions, spinach, black cherry tomatoes, sunflowers, and zinnias.
You can buy agricultural products from us at Liberty Farmers' Market on Fridays starting June 21 or Kauneonga Lake Farmers' Market on Saturdays starting July 6.
✶ Meet the farmer
Kamra is a singer/songwriter raised in the dry desert of Arizona now living between their farm in the Western Catskill Mountains and Toronto with their corgi and partner. Their interest in farming comes from their demanding passion for freedom and the frog habitat they built in their garage as a 4 year old. Kamra received their Permaculture Design Certification after fundraising to purchase farmland. They've been taught to take a whole systems design approach to farming such that all life, terrain and infrastructure is considered in the way they produce food as well as how they map and share Forest Fringe Farm.
✶ Our Values
✶ We are an ecologies before profit farm
✶ We root our work in reparations so that we may provide our products and services at no cost to Black and Indigenous people
✶ We favor experiments and getting it wrong so that we may grow into the format the farm needs
✶ We revere the soil and water pairing them with agents meant to jumpstart regeneration
✶ We care about nurturing inspiration