The season has picked up and we are almost too busy to blog. The crops on the farm have exploded into luscious green – garlic, cilantro, radishes, peas, and Brussels sprouts reach to the sky along with their myriad siblings…
Soul Fire on the Farm Plate Blog
THE FARMPLATE BLOG The FarmPlate Young Farmers Series: Leah Penniman & Jonah Vitale-Wolff From Soul Fire Farm Jeff Gangemi May 01, 2012 Young Farmers 0 comments NAME: LEAH PENNIMAN AND JONAH VITALE-WOLFF FARM: SOUL FIRE FARM AGES: 31 AND 32 Can you provide…
Springfield’s Gardening the Community at Soul Fire Farm
On Sunday, May 6, we welcomed the youth farmers and their coordinator Ibrahim from Gardening the Community, in Springfield, MA. Together we moved the chickens to fresh pasture, learning about sustainable meat as we worked. We cooked up a delicious…
Rensselaer County Girl Scouts “Survive” Soul Fire
36 hours, 18 teenage girls, endless forest to explore, a farm-load of work, and one-motivated Girl Scout organizer, Amy, added up to a great visit from Girl Scout troops from around Rensselaer County. The theme of their visit was Survivor. …
Soul Fire Farmers Featured on Food Justice Radio Broadcast on WBAI, NY
In honor of May Day last Tuesday, Leah and Jonah joined an extraordinary panel of food justice activists on WBAI-99.5 NYC as part of The Brooklyn Food Coalition’s Conference promotion. We spent the hour on Ken Gale’s show, Eco-Logic, with…
South End Earth Day
We had lots of fun yesterday tabling at South End Earth Day in Albany. An incredible amount of work was accomplished in the reclaimed neighborhood lots thanks to the huge turnout and dedication of folks living in the South End.…
Albany High School Sustainable Agriculture Fair
Thanks you to Albany High School and especially teacher, Tom Vacanti, for inviting us to present at their 2nd Sustainable Agriculture Fair. We spent a whole day at the school last week and shared our vision and story with 6…
Getting Lots Done with Interns Abe and Mark
Welcome to our very first Sustainable Living Immersion Program participants, Abram Johnson from Lyons, NY and Mark Russo, from Manhattan, NY! They are both super-sweet guys, hard workers, and lots of fun for Neshima and Emet to play with. Even…
Drinking Gourd Black-Jewish Community Liberation Seder
On Friday, April 13, we hosted the 2nd annual “Drinking Gourd Black-Jewish Community Liberation Seder” at the farm. Using the order of the Jewish seder, we infused our evening with the stories, songs, and rituals of our African American and…
Brazil: A Bag of Nails and a Bundle of Rope
A Bag of Nails and a Bundle of Rope Building a Community Healing Space at the Ciclovida Encuetro 2012 The Backstory It has been a month since I returned from Brazil. I have hesitated writing this because I could not…