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About Seed Song Farm

Seed Song Farm produces sustainably-grown vegetables, herbs, berries, flowers, and forest products, available through CSA shares (weekly pickup of fresh produce at the farm), local farmers' markets, and on-site farmstand, and charitable donations. The Farm's commitment to health and sustainability goes far beyond the exclusion of harmful chemicals. We use indigenous plants both for production, consumption, public activities, and habitat for beneficial plants and insects, including pollinators and natural insect predators.

About Seed Song Center

Seed Song Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides educational and cultural experiences of sustainable agriculture and agroecology. We offer all people access to quality food, shared meals, and farm-based arts and education experiences. By growing, sharing, and celebrating our food together, we evolve our local culture toward an equitable and sustainable land access and stewardship. Seed Song Center organizes youth summer programs; an afterschool program; field trips for schools, community groups and businesses; and farm-based educational events, workshops and festivals.

Location

Seed Song Farm, located at 160 Esopus Avenue, Kingston, NY, cultivates its 215-acres leasehold of prime agricultural fields, wetlands, and mature woods in partnership with the Seed Song Center, as one of several enterprises of the Esopus Agricultural Center's 212-acre Old Chambers Farm site, along the Esopus Creek and the Catskill Mountains. The site is nestled among residential, commercial, recreational, and light industrial development at the edge of Kingston, NY. It is near an elementary school, the county social services building, a library, recreational fields, a public fishing beach and canoe launch, and a local bus route.

We are very accessible by public transportation (and locally by bicycle) !
Please click for links to local and regional options by bus and train.

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The People

Creek Iversen, Farmer & Executive Director

Christopher "Creek" Iversen grew up across the Catskills in Otsego County, but has lived most of his life in the mid-Hudson Valley where he worked as a naturalist, environmental educator, summer camp co-coordinator, and progressive teacher before becoming a sustainable community farmer. Creek taught natural science and music at the Randolph School of Wappingers Falls, an experiential school dedicated to the greatest possible self-fulfillment of every child. Creek led summer camp programs at the Randolph School for over 10 years, as well as at Manitoga Nature & Design Summer Camp, and has also worked at summer programs for Clearwater, Wappingers Recreation Department, and Cooperstown Schools Summer Program. In the 1990's Creek was the Resident Naturalist at John Burroughs Sanctuary in West Park. Creek transitioned from teaching to farming in 2008, beginning as an apprentice at Common Ground Farm in Beacon. He has also managed farms at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm in Shelter Island, Brook Farm Project in New Paltz, and Whirligig Farm in Hurley, always working hard with his crew and extended farm family to incorporate education, music and the arts, and community celebrations into the life of the farm. Creek has been active with local farm organizations such as Mid-Hudson Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (MH CRAFT), Northeast Organic Farming Association of NY (NOFA-NY), and the Rondout Valley Growers.

Lisa Mitten, Farmer's Wife & Seed Song Center Treasurer

Lisa Mitten is the wife of Seed Song Farm & Center's co-founder/Executive Director/Farmer Creek Iversen. She works off-farm as Campus Sustainability Coordinator at SUNY New Paltz. Lisa began immersing herself in sustainable agriculture on Long Island in 2007 when she established a suburban homestead with vegetables, herbs, stone fruit, berries, and laying hens. She served as the President of the Long Island Chapter of NOFA-NY and supported the development and organization of the Small Farm Summit on Long Island with the North Shore Land Alliance and many other partnering organizations in 2011 and 2012. She co-founded Crossroads Farm at Grossman's in Malverne, NY and co-managed the farm - particularly the administrative functions - during its first year of operation. She has been farming alongside her husband, Creek, since they first met in 2011.
Lisa can be found at Seed Song Farm welcoming CSA members, launching emerging enterprises, cooking for the farm crew, leading ceremonies, organizing and inventorying seeds, writing grants, bookkeeping, budgeting, and strategic planning.

Jasmine Wood, grew up in the cloves of the Shawangunk Ridge. The striking natural beauty and ecological richness of the Hudson Valley inspired her to pursue an education in Environmental and Forest Biology. A graduate of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) Jasmine has conducted diverse research ranging from a Black Bear population study in the Adirondack Park to an Asian Longhorned Beetle pheromone study in the ESF Forest Health laboratory. It was the active farming community in New Paltz, NY which connected her to the realm of Farm-Based Education. Serving as the Education Director at a New Paltz community farm project, Jasmine found her place in the outdoor classroom setting of the farm fields and forests. At home, Jasmine spends her time sharing the wonders of nature and the abundance of the veggie garden with her two young daughters. She is passionate about working toward a localized and more just food system and enjoys growing, cooking and preserving the harvest in her home kitchen, always on the lookout for the next produce item to pickle! Contact Jasmine at [email protected]

Jasmine Wood, Education Director

Eric Murphy, Farm Co-Manager, "A Rock"

Sean, Music Rabble Rouser

Emma Trotto, Marketing & Communications Manager

Brian, Educator and Wise Man, "Bear"

McCadden / Honey Sweet Harmony, Events Coordinator

John Murphy, Project and Development Coordinator

Winston, Farm Crew, "Chubby Farmer"

Brace, Farm Crew, "Brassica"

Nathaniel, Farm Crew, "Natty Daddy"

Harvest Toman, Farm Crew

2022 summer camp team

Board of Directors of Seed Song Center