Join us for our annual Rock Steady Farm PRIDE Celebration!

We will have activities ranging from working on the farm to workshops including a forage walk, botanical dye crafts, herbal salve-making, and vegetable fermentation.

Agenda*

11:00AM-11:30AM: Welcome

11:30AM-1:00PM: Workshops or Working on the Farm

1:00PM-3:00PM: Lunch, Play, Farm Tour, and Music

3:00PM-4:30PM: Workshops or Working on the Farm

4:30PM-5:00PM: Closing

*In the registration, you have the option to select either working on the farm or a workshop, for both the morning block and afternoon block. We welcome you to join us for the full day, or just the morning or afternoon. Please only choose 2 activities- for example, you can choose the forage walk workshop for the morning, and working on the farm in the afternoon. Please see below for activity details.

Morning Working on the Farm (11:30AM-1:00PM)

Join us on the land for some field maintenance! We will likely be doing a range of activities from weeding to making rock bags.

Afternoon Working on the Farm (3:00PM-4:30PM)

Join us in painting our greenhouse doors!

Morning Workshops (11:30AM-1:00PM):

Botanical Bundle Dyeing with Camille Braswell

Join this workshop to dye cotton bandanas! While also learning about the process, history and different techniques of natural dyeing, including bundle dyeing. Each participant will leave this workshop with their own dyed cotton bandana.

About the facilitator: I have been a crafter all my life. I'm passionate about crafting and making things myself but I'm even more passionate about creating spaces for QTBIPOC people to craft, make, and connect together. I have been crocheting for almost 10 years and I grew up with my mom being a quilter you could say fibers are in my blood. Natural dyeing combines my love of fiber arts and crafting with my deep admiration and respect for plants and their magic. In addition to fiber arts I also love collaging, flower arranging, and making myself bolo ties from silly objects I find. I can't wait to do some crafting with y'all.

Forage Walk with Dre Estrada

Dre will be leading a plant identification walk where we will be meeting edible and medicinal plants that are growing along the edges of Rock Steady Farm focusing on who is particularly abundant in this season. Participants will learn a few methods for nurturing relationships with the plants we meet and be introduced to the ethical harvest. This walk is for anyone looking to start their journey with plants or curious to learn more about them! 

About the facilitator: Dre is a queer and genderfluid land steward, herbalist, and educator. They are a first-generation New Yorker by way of Colombia. Dre seeks to create spaces for people to heal and remember ancestral wisdom through plant walks, medicine making, and learning from the land. They hope to inspire relationships with the earth that are rooted in reciprocity and interdependence, shifting away from the extractive and exploitative legacies of yt supremacy and capitalism.

Afternoon Workshops (3:00PM-4:30PM):

Fermentation with Darich Perez

This fermentation workshop is hands on and a lot of fun. Participants would be learning how to ferment, how to take care of their ferments, and how to be creative in using it. Vegetables provided by Rock Steady Farm!

About the facilitator: Darich has been living in the Hudson Valley for 10 years and is originally from Puerto Rico. For a long time, his passion has been food, from growing it to cooking it. This passion was taught by his grandma, and he is always happy to share it. Darich has been fermenting for 15 years and currently teaches fermentation workshops from Puerto Rico to New York. 

Herbal Salve-Making with Sarah Elisabeth

Come and join this workshop to learn how to make an oil-based comfrey salve! Each participant will take home their own small jar of salve. 

About the facilitator: Sarah Elisabeth is Sage Herbalz, an apothecary, a consultant, an edible landscaper and a teacher. She has taught at Beacon Institute, African Roots Library and Rock Steady Farm’s Pride event.  Her project is Apothecary on Farms - bringing volunteers to farmland, wild foraging and cultivating herbs, producing products and offering them free to the community.