Unadilla Community Farm

Unadilla Community Farm is an off-grid, solar-powered, non-profit farm education center, situated on 11 acres in West Edmeston, NY. Founded in 2014 by millennial first-generation farmers who met through the WWOOF network, Unadilla Community Farm incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 2020.

Our mission is to showcase and teach climate-resilient agriculture while increasing food access and access to herbalism for low-income, low-access communities.

• Showcasing & Teaching Climate Resilient Agriculture: Since 2014, we have transformed an abandoned corn field into a 1-acre multi-story “food forest” that is one of a kind in our region. As a member of USDA’s Conservation Stewardship Program and the first Otsego County recipient of New York State’s Climate Resilient Farming program, we showcase a diversity of USDA NRCS recommended conservation practices, such as rainwater collection, multi-story and alley cropping, no-till management, wildlife habitat planting, crop rotation, and more. What Unadilla Community Farm highlights is that these regenerative agriculture practices can be applied not just in the home garden, but at scale, done efficiently and economically. For the past 10 years, Unadilla Community Farm has run a variety of education programs, including a Permaculture Internship, Farm Fellowship, Community Volunteer Days, and two Northeast SARE on-farm research studies. 228 people from 6 continents have participated in our education programs, with many of them receiving academic credit at the undergraduate or graduate level for completion of our internship.
• Increasing Food Access & Access to Herbalism: Through the support of individual donors and institutional grants, we donate 100% of our produce to food pantries, mutual aid groups, and herbal clinics, which in 2023 amounted to over $43,500 worth of produce distributed to 12 partner organizations. By increasing the amount of fresh fruits, veggies, and culinary and medicinal herbs available for low-income, low-access communities, we both improve health and nutrition for communities in need and reduce family food budgets, freeing up family funds for other needs.