BFLO Worm Works – 317 Ensminger Rd., Tonawanda

Buffalo Worm Works is a sustainability-focused company specializing in vermicomposting solutions. We use composting worms to transform food waste into nutrient-rich vermicast, providing an eco-friendly alternative to traditional waste disposal. Our mission is to reduce landfill waste, promote soil health, and support a more sustainable future for Buffalo and beyond.

Big Big Table & Lugar Hermoso de Pedro Community Garden - 272 Hudson St, Buffalo, NY, 14201

Stop by Big Big Table for our special Urban Farm Day Open House! Enjoy one of our famous cookies, learn more about our mission, and explore the Lugar Hermoso de Pedro Community Garden right across the street. Kids of all ages can help bring our sidewalks to life with chalk art!

Big Big Table is Western New York’s first pay-as-you-can community café, providing nutritious, delicious meals in exchange for time, money, produce, or groceries. Our goal is to build a healthier, more connected community while offering a dignified response to food insecurity.

Learn More & Get Involved: Visit bigbigtable.org

Plan a return visit for lunch! We’re open Monday - Friday, 11 AM - 2:30 PM. Grab a seat at the (Big Big) Table and experience a meal where everyone is welcome."

Bolyard Garden - 223 Broad St, Tonawanda

Meander through this maturing food forest to find organic produce, medicinal herbs, mushrooms, crafting materials, dye, honey, gathering spaces and fun. Permaculture principles are put into action in a confluence of humans and nature.

DeeplyRooted Community Garden - 98 Luksin Drive, Tonawanda

This new community garden, established in 2022, brings together traditional raised bed annual gardening with regenerative design attuned to healing the soil and feeding humans and wildlife for decades to come. DeeplyRooted Community Garden is organized by winding pathways that lead from eleven raised bed gardens rented to community members through to multiple food forest guilds, each of which layer fruit and nut trees with berry bushes, vines, and groundcover to create food-producing sustainable ecosystems. Highlights include our young fruit trees, medicinal garden, water catchment system, and neighborhood-built composting bay.

We gather at the garden for regular Learn and Work days that combine skill-building with hands-on practice; kid-focused learning and play; and monthly community potlucks. We warmly invite any WNYer interested in learning more, renting a raised bed, or joining our core group of volunteers to join us for Urban Farm Day or to email at contact@deeplyrootedwny.org.

Farmer Pirates Compost – 0 Gittere St, Buffalo

Farmer Pirates Compost promotes sustainability and a circular economy by using locally generated food scraps to make compost, which we sell every spring and fall to farmers and gardeners across Western New York. We collect upwards of 12 tons of food scraps every week from sources across the Buffalo metro area and compost them at our Gittere Street compost site. In 2024 we composted 719 tons of food scraps - that's over ONE MILLION POUNDS that we, in partnership with over 40 local businesses, 5 schools, 3 municipalities and over 2500 households, kept out of landfills! Composting this waste is a greenhouse-gas-reducing double whammy - the aerobic decomposition that occurs emits far fewer gases than the anaerobic decomposition that occurs in landfills, and the resulting finished compost that we distribute improves soil health and its ability to sequester carbon.

Started in 2012 by a group of urban farmers in the City of Buffalo who sought to produce their own compost, Farmer Pirates now operates as a Worker-Owned Co-Op, providing an ownership track to all who are employed with us. In the last few years our operation has grown significantly - we currently provide both residential & commercial composting pickup service as well as neighborhood and municipal drop-off composting programs. In 2023 we partnered with the City of Buffalo to launch the "Scrap It! Curbside" pilot composting program, which initiated weekly curbside food scrap collection for 2000 city households. The program has been met with much enthusiasm citywide, and is set to expand to allow more residents to compost with us later in 2025.

Stop by the Farmer Pirates compost site to see this transformation of food scraps in action!

5 Loaves Farm - 1172 West Ave, Buffalo

Not just an urban farm, 5 Loaves is a community hub on Buffalo’s West Side, using once-vacant properties as a living classroom where we provide jobs for local youth, spiritual nourishment to our neighbors, and access to healthy, sustainably grown food.

We distribute food through our CSA program, our on-site farm stand (open Thursday afternoons from July through September), and Provisions 139, our local food pantry. We take pride in our “beyond organic” farming practices, which means we never use any sprays—including insecticides or pesticides.”

Flat 12 Mushrooms - 37 Chandler St, Buffalo

We’ve focused from the beginning on a neutral carbon footprint, growing all our gourmet mushrooms on site using organic raw materials year-round at our one-of-a-kind urban farm. Founded in 2014, our now expanded indoor farm harvests 800 pounds a week, including lion’s mane, oyster, shiitake, chestnut and piopinno mushrooms. Our retail space offers fresh and dried mushrooms, medicinal mushroom extracts, mushroom pastries, lion’s mane chili crisp, lion’s mane brownies, lion’s mane coffee, mushroom vegan pate, and compound cream cheese! All things mushroom. We are open Wed-Fri 12-6pm; Sat-Sun 9-2pm

Grassroots Gardens - 389 Broadway, Buffalo

Grassroots Gardens of WNY is a small non-profit that helps communities start and develop community garden spaces across Buffalo and Niagara Falls. We have 110 gardens in our network this year.

Right next to the office, we have a beautiful community garden space that is used for teaching, events, and growing produce for the community. In this teaching garden, we have 13 raised vegetable beds, a rain garden, and a few ornamental growing areas planted with pollinators in mind. Here we have a variety of both organically grown vegetables and native perennials. This garden is cared for by our neighbors, friends, and staff. This space was designed with the community in mind not only as a gardening space but also as a public greenspace for everyone in the community.

Groundwork Market Garden, 1698 Genesee St., Buffalo

This season marks 10 years of growing on Buffalo’s East Side, and we couldn’t be prouder! Since 2015, we’ve cultivated and distributed tens of thousands of pounds of fresh, nutritious, and affordable produce. We’ve also hosted educational events, community gatherings, and partnered with local organizations to expand food access. We are a USDA Certified Organic urban farm dedicated to growing a diverse selection of fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, flowers, and honey. Rooted in regenerative agriculture, we prioritize soil health and sustainable practices to nourish both our community and the land.

You can find our produce at our on-site farm stand, through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and at local restaurants, businesses, and institutions. Plus, we’re excited to launch a new community garden just across the street this season!

Come visit our farm stand every Tuesday from June to October, 4–7 PM, to shop our weekly harvest. Want to get involved? Volunteer opportunities are available! Learn more at www.groundworkmg.com.

We look forward to seeing you on the farm!

Isle View Produce Urban Farm - 234 Wadsworth Ave, Tonawanda

This is a visually stunning market garden hidden in the suburbs with 4000 square feet of intensive gardening. We grow both vegetables and cut flowers. An on-site produce stand offers locally grown food and beautiful bouquets for the community.

MAP - Massachusetts Avenue Project - 387 Massachusetts Avenue, Buffalo

The Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) has been a neighborhood food hub on the West side of Buffalo for over 20 years. MAP is home to 2 greenhouses, chickens, bees and fruit trees outside of a farmhouse encompassing a commercial kitchen, cold and dry food storage as well as offices and training spaces. This non-profit runs a large youth program and a widespread Mobile Market, and offers various classes and opportunities to be involved in our local food system.

Pelion Outdoor Classroom (est. 2011) - 212 Best St, Buffalo

This hybrid outdoor classroom engages 250+ students with the natural world and enriches their curriculum through hands-on learning opportunities for students in topics of: plants, nutrition, science, WNY agriculture, eco-literacy, and stewardship. Volunteers transformed 4 blighted city lots across from City Honors School into a space that is 50% edible, growing 7 different fruits, pollinator buffets supporting native bees, a vertical growing space, First Peoples planting area, and contains one of the largest rain gardens in the city. Compare four different growing methods. Count the gourds dangling on our 30' gourd trellis! Farm stand offers: preserves, popping corn, and bee houses. Plus, U-PICK red wiggler worms and U-DIG native perennials and shrubblings.

Providence Farm Collective - Farmers Market: 130 Grant St, Buffalo (M & T Bank lot)

Providence Farm Collective (PFC) offers grassroots farm programs tailored to the needs of under-resourced individuals. The collective includes members from eight diverse communities, united by a vision of equitable access to food and farmland. PFC provides community organizations with farmland to grow fresh, culturally significant crops that nourish Western New York. Additionally, our Incubator farm program empowers individuals to start their own farm businesses.

The Providence Farm Collective International Farmers Market is a cherished venue for our farmers. On July 2, 2022, we launched the PFC Farmers Market at 130 Grant Street in the M&T Bank parking lot. From June to October, every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the market offers fresh, affordable food to a diverse neighborhood, home to many refugee and immigrant communities. The market features a wide variety of culturally relevant foods, from African maize to Liberian bitter ball, which are often difficult to find elsewhere.

PUSH Buffalo Hampshire St. Community Garden - 297 Hampshire Street, Buffalo

Buffalo's West Side is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the country, yet it has also faced significant underinvestment. Turning vacant lots into community gardens has proven to have many benefits for all members of the community - including addressing food insecurity, contributing to healing from trauma, providing a beautiful gathering space in nature, and improving public safety and health.

PUSH Buffalo hosts two such gardens, providing plots for 45 neighborhood families. PUSH holds ownership of the land and tends the common spaces, and the urban farmers have total control over what and how they grow and share produce, celebrating their unique gardening methods and traditions, and often growing food that cannot be found in local grocery stores.

Gardens like this are a large step toward PUSH's goal of increasing community control over the local economy and increasing neighborhood resiliency for those most impacted by systemic oppression and environmental injustice. 

Rader Garden - 1547 Love Rd, Grand Island

Come see what can be grown on a small Grandyle Village lot where I try to grow much of my own food. My front lot is packed with 9 raised beds for most of my vegetable production, several berry bushes and two peach trees. In the back is a rabbit hutch, chicken coop, an herb garden, fruit trees and bee hives. And, new this year, are three tall hugelkultur beds, an experiment inspired by fellow UFD gardener, Cheryl Harris. This year, I also plan to play with growing more vegetables and herbs in containers. Living organically and sustainably is my goal, and every year brings new successes as well as failures. I enjoy sharing mine.

Tomkins Garden – 761 West River Road, Grand Island

Welcome to our garden! We moved here in 2020 and have spent the years since creating perennial beds and a vegetable garden using no till methods with cardboard and free mulch from the town. After removing 14 dead Ash trees we were left with an almost bare 1⁄2 acre with drainage issues. We set about to create an environment utilizing organic gardening methods that support pollinators, wildlife and us. The gardens consist of much loved perennials from our previous home and native plants and trees purchased over the past 5 years. We are learning more about growing native plants and adapting to the ever changing climate. Our yard is one of the first to meet the criteria of the Grand Island Nature Alliance’s (GINA) Habitat Certification. We are happy to share information throughout the day regarding GINA and Habitat Certification.

Tribo Garden – 14 Claremont Ave, Town of Tonawanda 14223

My Town of Tonawanda garden is very small, so I have been forced to be economic with the space, while striving to have fresh fruits or vegetables for all seasons. Fences support Concord grape vines, which are used for snacking and making pies. Wire trellises suspend Niagara grapes, which are used for making wine, and also provide shade for the koi pond. Hops, for making beer, are grown vertically up the back of the house. Raspberries, blueberries and strawberries, for snacking and making pies, grow along the edges. Frank Lloyd Wright inspired raised beds overflow with peppers and tomatoes, for making fresh pasta sauce and salsa. A small herb garden provides essentials for the kitchen.

Urban Fruits & Veggies - 117 Zenner St., Buffalo

We continue to build out our farm, and the continued buildout will allow for more community engagement

Wilson Street Farm - 360 Wilson St

Since 2009 we have been growing and selling vegetables on Buffalo's East side, seeking to be a part of bringing peace and hope to a struggling neighborhood. We sold our last CSA's in 2020 and switched our focus to intentionally building a healthier, more biodiverse island in a neighborhood of neglect. This intentional approach to agriculture provides much needed green space and food for people, birds, insects, and animals, as well as an area of quiet and peace - precisely what our society needs in this age of instant digital everything and its accompanying mental illness and purposelessness. We want our farm to be a living metaphor of redemption, and an example of what husbandry was meant to look like.

We have also been collaborating with Cornell University on urban soil studies. How can we bring fertility and life back into the land we have once abused, but now so desperately need to provide us with the building blocks of survival? Our main approach has been the use of various cover crops, but what this looks like on the challenging soils of the city is the subject of on-going study.

We offer garden beds for lease for folks who would like to grow their own flowers or vegetables but who don't have enough space to do so. Please email us at wilsonstreeturbanfarm@gmail.com for more information.