PROGRAMS 2025
Farm School NYC offers a rotating curriculum on urban agriculture and food justice grounded in popular education.
We aim to serve NYC residents with curiosity about our food system! These courses connect you to growing spaces throughout NYC, farmers and community gardeners, and one another.
After many years of running the Citywide Certificate Program, we paused in 2024 to read through and incorporate over 10 years of feedback from participant surveys, conversations, and input from facilitators. This led to opening two pathways - courses connecting the land and people through discussion and collective study and courses inviting urban growers into technical and community-based growing practices.
Stay tuned and contribute to our fundraiser as we gear up to launch our certificate programming in 2026!
Food Justice Foundations
Based on community feedback, we will pilot four courses that center Food Justice, connecting the land and people through discussion and time on the land.
These courses will also be part of the cohort certificate program in 2026:
Introduction to Land Stewardship
For the first time since 2019, we’re also opening our Core Courses to the public. These four courses make up Introduction to Land Stewardship, inviting urban growers into technical and community-based growing practices.
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These courses will also be part of the certificate program in 2026:
Sliding Scale Tuition Model
Your contribution to FSNYC reflects both an investment in our programs and an investment in your own learning and growth. This ripples out into the community through the spiral model and we are honored that you choose to share resources with us so that we continue to provide urban agriculture programs across NYC.
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Farm School NYC’s mission is to get urban agriculture training into the hands of NYC residents through a popular education model. In order to achieve this and sustain the expertise and logistics of educational programming, we aim to be transparent about course costs and participant contributions. We will continue to update payment options for our different offerings as they vary in length.
FSNYC programs were tuition-based for many years and during the COVID-19 pandemic (ongoing), FSNYC offered programs at low-cost and/or through a gift economy option. Due to the number of people we serve, the gift economy blossomed. Folks offered a variety of bartering and ‘gift’ options that were at once beautiful and unmanageable for our small staff. Given the diversity of gifts, it pulled at our capacity to track and activate the resources that were offered in exchange for programming.
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FSNYC calculates costs for each programmatic offering based on payments to farmer-facilitators, sites that host our programs, materials, curriculum development, coordination, and administration. Costs are not the same for all offerings due to variations in length, materials, and complexity. Using an honor system, we encourage participants to read through payment scale options to determine their best fit.
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Continuing to lean on solidarity economy principles in 2025, FSNYC returns to a sliding scale model to sustain our work.
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Word Bank:
Sliding Scale: a scale that indicates prices which vary according to other factors such as income, expenses, and/or cost of living
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Gift Economy: a system of exchange where things are not sold for money and instead are exchanged with other valuables, resources and may be given at a later time
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Solidarity Economy: originating in Latin America this system prioritizes people and planet over profit by having community needs (housing, education, land, food, energy etc.) controlled and governed by the people
SEEDS
Under $45K
$95
SOLIDARITY
Over $80K
$750
BUILDERS
$45K-60K
$175
ORGANIZATION RATE
Professional Development
$1200+
SUSTAINERS
$60K-80K
$375
SCHOLARSHIP
$0-45K
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Solidarity: For every Solidarity ticket purchased, a scholarship becomes available. Tell your friends!
​Please note: Solidarity tickets are tax deductible for $375 each and donors will receive an
acknowledgement letter at the end of the year for their contributions. Thank you!
Organizational Rate: This is for people whose organizations have funding to support the educational pursuits of their employees.
Please email programs@farmschoolnyc.org if you have questions or need a sliding scale option due to the organizational budget.
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Scholarship: Please email programs@farmschoonyc.org if these prices are a barrier to you.
Include the subject line "Ticket_Course Name" with your name to reserve a spot.
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Due to high volume of interest, all tickets are first come, first serve. An email does not guarantee entry.
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Please see the chart below to guide your contribution:
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