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

Visit Big Big Table on Saturday for our special Urban Farm Day Open House to learn more about our unique offerings, enjoy one of our famous cookies, and explore the community garden across the street. Kids of all ages can help to decorate our sidewalks with chalk. (Then plan a return trip during our lunch service hours, Monday - Friday!)

Located directly across the street from the Lugar Hermoso de Pedro Community Garden on Buffalo’s West Side lies WNY’s inaugural pay-as-you-can community café, Big Big Table.

At most restaurants, you pay money for your meal, but Big Big Table offers a unique twist. Guests are encouraged to contribute whatever they can – be it time, money, produce or groceries – in exchange for their meal. Through this innovative participation-based model, Big Big Table aims to build healthier individuals and communities, while also providing a dignified response to food insecurity and fostering a culture of community support.

In addition to providing the community with accessible, healthy food options, Big Big Table is ardently committed to minimizing food waste through food rescue initiatives. Our incredible kitchen team curates weekly menus which incorporate donated items, excess and/or distressed produce, and seasonal, locally available produce. In collaboration with lead gardener Kelsey Worth, the café integrates greens, vegetables, and an array of herbs graciously contributed by the community garden and local farms.

So, grab a seat at the (Big Big) table and enjoy a delicious lunch in a space that truly welcomes everybody. The café is open for lunch Monday -Friday from 11am-2:30pm. Learn more or sign up to volunteer at bigbigtable.org.

Bolyard Garden - 223 Broad St, Tonawanda

Meander through this four year old 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. We’ll be hosting a plant sale with food forest and medicinal herb plants.

Brewster St. Farm 36 Brewster St., Buffalo

The Brewster St. Farm is part of the Green Shoots for New Americans program at Journey’s End Refugee Services, providing training and resources for refugee clients who wish to pursue agriculture as a skillset or business opportunity. The farm is functioning, providing organic produce to food-insecure populations and the urban community of Buffalo. We grow a variety of produce including culturally relevant vegetables and flowers to our clients, while also offering annual 20-week CSA shares and farm stand access to the public.

Pick up for the CSA and the farm stand are in the Tri-Main Center lobby on Thursdays from June-October. We are a part of the Greater Buffalo Urban Growers community and partners with Cornell Cooperative Extension, Grassroots Gardens WNY, and We Radiate.

We will also have a farm stand available with limited produce, value added products, and potential seedlings. We may also have a volunteer opportunity for individuals while they pass through.

BFLO Worm Works – 317 Ensminger Rd., Tonawanda

We are an urban worm farm. We convert food scraps into living soil. We offer food scrap collection service and produce Super Soil for retail sale.

DeeplyRooted Community Garden - 98 Luksin Drive, Tonawanda

Growing from its inception in 2022, this community garden and food forest bridges traditional raised bed annual gardening with regenerative practices to heal the soil and bring soulful purpose to this public space. We reduce off-site inputs with rainwater catchment and composting to organically water and feed the garden. Local waste streams such as arborist logs and wood chips provide useful carbon rich material. And among the fruit trees and shrubs, the reintroduction of a diverse selection of plants provides native wildlife habitat and forage. This is a place to connect with neighbors as well as nature, reconnecting passersby with the beauty and resiliency of our natural spaces.

Farmer Pirates Compost – 0 Gittere St, Buffalo

Farmer Pirates Compost LLC, formed in 2013 by a group of urban farmers who recognized the need for locally produced compost is now officially operating as a Worker Owned Co-op, providing an ownership track to all who are employed with us. Starting with just 20 residential pickup composting clients, we have grown to provide both residential & commercial composting pickup service, neighborhood and municipal drop off composting programs, serving over 500 households and businesses across the Greater Buffalo area. Since September 2023 we are partnering with the city of Buffalo in the implementation of Scrap It! Curbside, a pilot composting program offered to 2000 city residents.

Our operation supports a closed loop economy by using locally generated food scraps to make compost that feeds our local farms and gardens. In 2023 we kept 940,042 lbs of food scraps out of the landfill, composting them instead!

Farmer Pirates Compost staff will be happy to show you around the compost site, where you can witness the transformation of food scraps into rich compost; they will share their insights, enthusiasm, and love for the soil with all who attend.

5 Loaves Farm - 1172 West Ave, Buffalo

5 Loaves Farm is an active participant in the renewal and redemption of Buffalo's Upper West Side. Now in our 13th growing season, we produce healthy, organic food on one acre of land in the heart of the city on what were previously vacant lots.

Our work includes providing neighborhood youth with their first job experience, including on-the-job skill training and mentorship. A unique feature of 5 Loaves Farm is our cultural garden, where we grow culturally significant crops reflecting our diverse community. We distribute food to the neighborhood through a CSA program, an on-site farm stand, and the Elmwood Village Farmers' Market. We are also able to provide nearby Buffalo Public Schools with fresh salad greens during the growing season. You can find us at Elmwood-Bidwell every Saturday morning from May- October, and at our on-site farm stand Thursday afternoons from July-September.

Flat 12 Mushrooms - 37 Chandler St, Buffalo

Founded in 2014, we’ve focused from the beginning on a neutral carbon footprint. We grow all our gourmet mushrooms on site using organic raw materials year-round at our one-of-a-kind urban farm. Our now expanded indoor farm harvests 800 pounds a week, including the lions mane variety, touted to help your brain and nervous system. Our retail space grew out of the pandemic, and offers fresh and dried mushrooms, medicinal mushroom extracts, mushroom pastries, mushroom scallops, lions mane chili crisp, lions mane hot sauce, lions mane brownies, lions 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. The community garden adjacent to Grassroots Gardens’ office is a teaching and demonstration garden that also serves as a growing space for the surrounding neighborhood. We utilize the space for workshops and programs, while also growing free vegetables for our neighbors. In this teaching garden, we have 13 raised vegetable beds, a rain garden, and a few ornamental growing areas planted with pollinators in mind. Multiple neighbors, as well as a group from the Office of People with Developmental Disabilities, steward some of the beds in this space, while our staff grow and share the produce from the remaining beds.

Groundwork Market Garden, 1698 Genesee St., Buffalo

Groundwork Market Garden (GMG) is a certified USDA Organic urban farm that grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, as well as mushrooms, herbs, flowers and honey. We are committed to improving our soil health and using regenerative agricultural practices. We have produced and distributed tens of thousands of pounds of affordable and cost-subsidized fruits and vegetables, hosted on-farm events and educational programming, and partnered with local organizations to increase food access in east Buffalo since 2015. GMG serves its community through an on-site farm stand, a community shared agriculture (CSA) program, and through local restaurants, businesses, and institutions. Visit the farm stand to shop our weekly offerings every Tuesday in June-October, open 4-7pm! Volunteer opportunities available. Visit our website www.groundworkmg.com for more info.

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 for the community, and will be open on Urban Farm Day.

A highlight this year will be a do-it-yourself "Bouquet Bar" where visitors will be able to create and purchase their own beautiful bouquet to take home.

MAP - Massachusetts Avenue Project - 387 Massachusetts Avenue, Buffalo

Started over 20 years ago, the Massachusetts Avenue Project is the oldest urban farm in Buffalo. With a little over an acre of land in production, chickens, bees, a micro orchard and many medicinal herbs, MAP has long been a part of our local food system: participating in food production on a farm, food processing in a commercial kitchen, distribution on a mobile market, and community education and policy work. MAP employs teenagers, and believes that the revolution will be cultivated!

MAP will be open and selling produce on Urban Farm Day from 10-3

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

This huge 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, has over 9 fruit trees, several pollinator buffets that support native bees, a vertical growing space, First Nation planting area, and contains one of the largest rain gardens in the city. We train students, teachers, and community members alike in a variety of growing methods and sustainable living. Come make a batch of Fairy Ice Cream! Farm stand will include: fruit jams, pickles, honey samples, bee houses, U-Pick herbs & compost worms Plus, U-DIG native perennials and shrubblings.

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

Providence Farm Collective is a 37 acre not-for-profit farm collective located in Orchard Park with our seasonal farmers market on Grant Street! Officially founded in 2019, PFC provides access to farmland and agricultural resources to under-resourced communities with an ultimate vision of empowering just and equitable access to food and farmland. Providence Farm Collective’s (PFC) diverse farmers represent communities from Somalia, the Congo, Burundi, the United States, Liberia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Ethiopia.

PFC’s mission is cultivating farmer-led and community-rooted agriculture and food systems to actualize the rights of under-resourced peoples. PFC directly supports refugee, immigrant, Black, and low-income farmers with access to farmland, agriculture and business education, technical assistance, markets, and opportunity to farm for income. Through its programs, PFC uplifts the next generation of diverse agricultural entrepreneurs and community farmers with an emphasis on promoting self-sufficiency and advancing ecological and human health. Many community members voice the same reasons for farming at PFC: To build fresh food and economic security within their communities; grow culturally relevant crops key to food traditions; connect to agricultural heritage; enjoy the outdoors; and reap the physical and mental health benefits the farm provides. In 2023, PFC was home to over 230 farmers and 34 summer youth employees representing eight unique communities who worked together to manage 27 diversified, organic farms!

Come meet our farmers, learn more about PFC, and discover some new varieties of produce at our farmers market on Grant Street Saturdays from 10am - 2pm! www.providencefarmcollective.org

Rader Garden - 1547 Love Rd, Grand Island

I have been working on my urban farm for 7 years, filling every inch with raised beds full of vegetables, fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs and flowers.

The garden scraps get fed to the animals, who in turn provide fertilizer for the plants. My rabbit hutch holds two does and a buck, who supply meat several times a year. My small chicken coop holds three hens who give me white, tan and green eggs on a daily basis. And there are two bee hives for honey for myself and neighbors. My goal is to grow as much of my own food as possible with minimal outside inputs and cost.

I hope to show visitors what can be done on a small urban lot. This is the future of agriculture if we are to save the planet.

Urban Fruits & Veggies - 117 Zenner St., Buffalo

Buffalo Go Green's urban farm is a mix of vertical hydroponic container and soil-based growing in five heated greenhouses.

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. When available, we offer for sale a variety of fresh, chemical-free, in-season vegetables at our on-site farm stand on Saturdays, beginning in July. Tomatoes are our specialty! Come by on Saturdays for your tomatoes - green, red, or heirloom, fresh herbs, or other vegetables in season.

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.