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Extending Your Growing Season With Tunnels

How can we keep delicious, organic food growing locally through New York winters? Discover the variety of tunnels, frames and protective structures used by four-season farmers, and learn how you can...

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Winter Workshops: Mugwort Kvas

Did you know that one of the most powerful medicinal plants in the world grows wild right in your garden? Mugwort has been used for centuries to boost the magnesium levels in our bodies, alleviate...

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Winter Workshops: Fermented Sourdough Bread-Making

How can you boost your health and feed your cravings for bread this winter? Learn the classic Russian method and recipe for fermented sourdough bread. Masha, herbalist and healing foods expert, will...

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2016 Cropsey CSAs Now Available!

  Local, organically grown food is still available in Rockland County!  At Cropsey Community Farm, you can purchase a CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, which gives you 25 weeks of over 50...

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Winter Workshops: Herbal Mixology

Herbal Mixology: Aromatic Bitters and Simple Syrups. Enliven your holiday gatherings by creating stunning cocktails infused with herbs, flowers, roots, barks, rinds, seeds and spices.  Join Michelle...

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Joan Gussow: Media vs Nature

Professor and food policy expert, Joan Gussow, discusses the replacement of actual experience with mediated experience, and the risks such a choice presents to humanity and nature. Joan Gussow, EdD, is...

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RFA Supporting Members Sow The Future of Local Farms

 We still have enough farmland in Rockland County to feed our entire community right from the earth. Imagine if we could all use that land to reconnect with nature for nourishment, healing and...

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Workplace CSAs: A Farm-To-Office Healthcare Plan

More and more companies are investing in their employees’ long-term health by purchasing local CSAs for workers to share and bring home. The sale of workplace CSAs has been on the rise in New York City...

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Cropsey Community Farm Adds Two New CSA Pick-Up Locations

The largest CSA outside of New York City is available for pick-up in three locations in Rockland this year. Cropsey Community Farm has partnered with Hungry Hollow Co-op, in Chestnut Ridge, and Nyack...

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Meet New RFA Farmer Manager Pearl

Hello neighbors and soon-to-be friends, I am so thrilled to be joining the Rockland Farm Alliance as the Farm Manager! Accepting the position with the RFA means a lot to me on different levels, and I...

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Free Thanksgiving Farm Share!

New and returning CSA members who register with a paid deposit of $250 by 11/18 will receive a free Thanksgiving farm share! This bonus share will include such items as potatoes, carrots, sweet...

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Farm to Table Benefit

We are so grateful to our friends at 8 North Broadway in Nyack, NY for hosting this wonderful event. We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate and raise money for Rockland Farm Alliance and our projects...

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November Volunteer Days

Want another way to support the Rockland Farm Alliance and its Cropsey Community Farm? Come volunteer! Volunteering is a great way to be a part of the RFA community, learn about organic agriculture,...

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