Sign your 3-5 year old up for Spring dates of  Little Farmers.  Each week will follow a similar format of play, garden work, snack making and eating, and reading a garden themed book.  You can sign up for 1,2,3, 4 or 5 sessions.  You are welcome to bring siblings.  The fee is $5-$15 sliding scale per week, per family.  You can pay in person with cash or check on the day of the session. 

We are so grateful to the Kingston Wine Co and to all of you for coming out to support Give Back Day on April 9th.  We raised $500 that will go towards educational programming at the Kingston YMCA Farm Project.  We feel so fortunate to be a part of the generous Kingston community!

Supports the Kingston YMCA Farm Project

Saturday, April 9

After the close of an awesome 2015 season, we hunkered down this winter to prepare for the year ahead of us. Our team has been hard at work making plans to grow the Farm Project in all direction.

Providing access to fresh produce in Midtown and teaching people how best to use it are the objectives of the Kingston YMCA Farm Project. The project began in 2013 when a former childcare director at the YMCA was connected to a local farmer. “I was looking for a place to farm and work with kids,” farmer and project director KayCee Wimbish said recently.
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Kaycee Wimbish used to teach second grade in NYC, but now she teaches in a lot behind the Kingston YMCA.

Wimbish, the YMCA, and a team of volunteers and donors have worked over the course of the past two years to convert the lot into viable farmland.

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Jill Draper is releasing a limited number of custom color Empire hanks with a percentage of the proceeds going to the INDIEGOGO Campaign. Read More

The Kingston YMCA Farm Project, a new Urban Farm in Midtown Kingston, NY, Launches Crowd Sourcing Campaign with Indiegogo on March 1st.