The Ask a Farmer Series is our effort to reconnect and provide resources to our robust and beloved Alemany Farm community!

Whether you're a total beginner or an old farm hand, we hope you'll join us for this hour-and-a-half long workshop on best practices for fall and winter gardening here in the Bay Area. First, our farmers will cover everything from what crops to plant and when, to autumn garden maintenance and care. This is a chance to anticipate challenges and game-plan solutions in advance. After we briefly cover the basics, the rest of the workshop will be open for an office-hours-style question and answer session.

In lieu of the Alemany Farm annual Fall Harvest Festival, and in honor of Friends of Alemany Farm's 15th birthday, we offer this workshop to invite you back into meaningful relationship with FoAF. We miss your helping hands on site, and need your support in other ways. If you're able, please consider donating generously to sustain San Francisco's oldest and most productive farm at a time when we cannot earn the money that pays the bills. All are welcome! And no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Abby Bell (she/her) is currently the Friends of Alemany Farm Co-Director, the co-founder of "Food, What?!", and a long-time gardener/farmer, food justice activist, and lover of food.

Edgar Xochitl (ze/zer) works on cross-pollinating traditional ecological knowledge, queer politics, and indigenous philosophies to connect the dots between decolonial botany and queer liberation. Xochitl is many things: farm manager at Hummingbird Farm, (a collective organizing farm in the Excelsior district in San Francisco), an urban campesinx, an academic, and an artist. Xochitl raises awareness on the importance of flowers as tools for resisting colonialism and climate chaos while healing the bodies and spirits of Queer and Trans People of Color, rehabilitating the soil, capturing carbon, and providing new genetic memories.

Jack Thomas (he/they): Before joining the Friends of Alemany Farm (FoAF) team, Jack Thomas spent four years engaging Buddhist psychology, philosophy, ecology, and practice at Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center, where he was assistant farm manager. Now, in his capacity as co-director of FoAF, Jack is enthusiastic about growing resilient urban ecosystems, restoring food sovereignty and native foodways to disenfranchised frontline communities, fostering cultural expressions of interdependence, and sowing the seeds of health for the planet and all its creatures.

Youngjin Jung (she/her) completed the farm internship and joined the Friends of Alemany Farm in late 2019. She finds gardening to be the perfect salve for an urban lifestyle. Her wish is for more folks to experience the joy of playing in the dirt and watching things grow.

Suggested Donation: $10; no one turned away for lack of funds. Our workshops are donation-based and support the growing and distribution of free produce at Alemany Farm. Please give at the suggested level or higher if it is available to you.

FAQs

How do I get the Zoom Link? You will receive the link after you register for the workshop.

What will the format of the workshop be? There will be some short introduction to fall gardening tips and basics and then time for Q&A.