Auburn Permaculture Park is an edible forest garden and educational gathering space located at Michael Lepak Memorial Park in Auburn, New York.

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The Bitternut Homestead (named after the Native American Haudenosaunee word Otisco, or Us-te-ke, meaning "bitter-nut-hickory") is a 4 bedroom home in Syracuse's Near West Side (NWS) just off of downtown. Syracuse is a city of 145,000 people, and the NWS is an urban community with high racial, but low economic, diversity - a median income of $25,653 exists in the bottom 3.5% of national zip codes. The house at 717 Otisco St is a 100-year old renovated Victorian purchased in 2010 for $1 from Home Headquarters (HHQ), a local non-profit housing agency. The house had been vacant for 3-4 years at the time of purchase and required new plumbing, electric, heating, hot water, structural repairs from water and animal damage, and major interior and exterior finish work. For instance, all window glass was broken and was replaced while preserving the original wooden frames and sills. There was also no front porch, it having rotted away and been demolished by HHQ during holding of the property. Residents of the Collective live together, a primary strategy for creating community. Shared chores may include cooking, shopping, cleaning, trash/recycling, gardening, and other tasks including a spring and fall cleaning day, and a spring and fall gardening day. The grounds are landscaped according to Permaculture principles & design, the original owner Frank Cetera being a local Permaculture educator and designer who received his PDC at Hancock (NY) Permaculture Center in 2010. The Homestead also houses the operations desk/office of The Alchemical Nursery, a non-profit organization working to create "Regenerative Landscapes and LIfestyles" utilizing strategies from the realms of Permaculture, mutual aid, eco-socialism, social justice, & ecovillage philosophies & methodologies. Natural building materials & simple living are also strategies being utilized. Heating is currently through electric baseboard heating for instance. Although electric heating is initially more expensive from the supply side, it was chosen because it is less expensive to install, allows zoned control in each room, can be supplied by solar panels and to keep natural gas out of this "Anti-Fracking House". Since original renovations, a Vermont Castings cast iron wood stove has been installed for primary heating in winter, with the electric baseboard taking on a secondary heating role. Other techniques include interior natural clay plastering and homemade paints, hugelkultur garden beds made from downed woody debris, hand-finished floors (scraping, sanding, treating with linseed oil & beeswax). We are passionate about our Food-Focused Mission Statement which you can read in full at https://www.facebook.com/notes/bitternut-homestead-on-otisco-street/bitternuts-food-focused-mission-statement/2082150988464865/

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A short introduction to permaculture design will begin at 9 a.m. Visit any time from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for an ongoing tour looping through our woodland pig pastures and off-grid farmstead. Pork barbecue begins at 11:30 a.m.

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Hawk Meadow Farm, located in Schuyler County, NY near the southern edge of the Finger Lakes National Forest, specializes in log-grown woodland mushrooms such as shiitake and medicinal tinctures made from our mushrooms. Among our other products are maple syrup and locust posts. We follow organic methods and sustainable practices in all that we do, and our farm is inspired by the principles of permaculture. We have a great love and respect for the natural world and strive to work in harmony with nature not only in all our agricultural practices but in just living our lives.

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Six acres of land surrounding a quaker house, with creek, nut and fruit trees.

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Shelterbelt is a regenerative diversified farm producing grass-fed lamb and beef, organic tree fruits and berries, baby ginger, raw honey, and pastured eggs. The farm also operates a glamping tent for overnight guests, offers a self-serve farm store, and rents space to Food Forest Farm, a perennial edible nursery and hardy figgery. Farm owners Craig and Erica are in the process of constructing a bioshelter attached to their home. The farm's emphasis on community, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity is embodied by the motto "food for your soul, with love from our soil."

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1/4 acre downtown food forest featuring numerous different perennial fruits and vegetables, along with a hidden wetland ecosystem

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Hope Farm is a planned organic farm project initiated in collaboration with SUNY Sullivan’s Sustainability Team, Culinary Program. This health-focused, community-centered project that is led by Jon Jon Thomas, New Hope Agricultural Leader is being cultivated on a three-acre plot that was provided by SUNY Sullivan. Our three-year goal is to develop the three acres of land in three phases to support intensive vegetable gardens, perennial small fruits and an orchard that will offer a variety of staggered crops during the growing season with the intent to create a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

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Sylvan Oasis is a Permaculture and agritourism site that functions as an incubator for a number of educational, farm, and artistic projects. Our location at the edge of the Village of Trumansburg consists of two different contexts: the suburban landscape and an early succession woodland. The land is home to Of the Forest Farm, a small market garden, tree nursery, and mushroom yard. Rooms in the 1880s farmhouse are rented out on Airbnb, and we serve guests breakfast with local ingredients. The 3-acre woodland (an old abandoned hayfield) is slowly being transformed into a food forest. Sylvan Oasis is a growing intentional community with four residents. We have hosted a number of workshops and aspire to continue to form an educational space that can enrich our community’s understanding of regenerative living and eating, and to encourage others to integrate what they’ve learned into their everyday lives. We collaborate closely with our neighbors, sharing fun, tools and resources, and work together as a neighborhood to grow food and build community.

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We are a local family farm providing children and families with outdoor, natural world and sustainable agriculture education. We actively are inclusive of ALL children, providing access to 16 acres of incredibly biodiverse land — you are free to roam field, forest, creek, waterfall and gorge spaces in order to embrace nature in all its abundant beauty.

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Unadilla Community Farm is a 12-acre off-grid organic fruit & vegetable cooperative farm and permaculture education center. Our mission is to provide a community-centered space for the teaching and practice of regenerative agriculture and permaculture design, while increasing local food access to healthy & affordable organic fruits and vegetables in the Leatherstocking Region of New York State. The mission is carried out through the on-site farm cooperative, beginning farmer training, and farm share programs. Our no-till organic orchard spans 4 acres, and features 200+ varieties of cold-hardy perennial fruits, nuts, berries, and herbs, diversified vegetables, and edible mushrooms, showcasing a range of climate resilient agroforestry & multi-story farming techniques.

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