2023
More than 25 youth attended our 2023 Spring Planting Day in partnership with the Federated Conservationists of Westchester County's Student Network at Hilltop Hanover Farm.
Members helped the farm's Natives team weeding the farm plots of invasive plants. Our group helped to set up 25 tables for the spring plant sale and then weed 1.5 acres within the farm's native plant plot and garlic plot.
Afterwards, our volunteers met for a panel discussion about food insecurity in the Hudson Valley with Heather Marinelli of Second Chance Foods. The volunteers offered brilliant suggestions on how to make food distribution at food pantries eco-friendlier and more sustainable.
Our volunteers did such a great job that the farm has invited us to come back any time to volunteer and get back into the dirt.
2022
The Garden of Hope is a community garden that supplies Westchester food pantries. 100% of the fresh produce goes to these pantries. On a beautiful, sunny Sunday May 15th, members of the WYA old and young alike teamed up to learn about and practice regenerative farming at the Garden of Hope in Yorktown. There were team building events, demonstrations by Janet Morra, and a lot of good work that helped to maintain this beautiful community garden.
Service Event at Hilltop Hanover Farm
Teens gathered at the farm to get their hands dirty and harvest organic vegetables that will be sent to Second Chance Foods to help food insecure neighbors around Westchester.
