SPRING 2024

Bringing the garden to the community…

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…and the community to the garden

 EARLY GARLIC HARVEST

ONGOING GOALS

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equitable food production and distribution

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environmental stewardship

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environmental education

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Volunteer

Watch our founder and our wonderful volunteers in action! We are an organization run by volunteers, and would love to see you in our gardens.


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Become a partner

Our corporate partners keep us running! If you are interested in company-based volunteering at ONWG or would like to make a corporate donation, feel free to contact us.

 SEEDLING DONATION

 Farmer’s Conference Sign-Up Form

While the phrase “sustainable farming” is often thought of as synonymous with “farming in a way that doesn’t harm the environment,” Amy Benerofe, Our New Way Garden’s founder, recognizes the multi-faceted implications of this phrase.

There is a huge social justice and economic component to sustainability,” she notes. “Your business can be in the green, but it isn’t sustainable if your lowest-paid employees aren’t making minimum wage. You are standing on the bottom tier to run your organization.” She credits the impactful Education for Sustainability course she took at Manhattanville for this expanded worldview.

Amy personally makes sure to pay her interns at least $15 to $20 an hour.

“I know I could be paying them less, but I don’t want to stretch out their time by paying them unfairly for my own benefit,” she says.

In addition, Our New Way Garden is committed to growing organic, pesticide-free food that nurtures the environment, and donates its fresh, nutritious food to underserved communities to help break the barriers keeping them from a middle-class lifestyle.

Amy believes that mother nature follows the laws of abundance. “If you plant one seed and nurture it, you get many seeds,” she notes. “We live in a society where this paradigm is reversed. We are disconnected from sustainability, but the beauty within people gives me hope for the future.”

 Project 1

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Project 2

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GIVE BACK

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CSA

Your tax deductible contribution to our community supported agriculture (CSA) program will provide you and your family up to 16 weeks of chemical & pesticide free, local produce!

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DONATE

Help us expand access to high quality organic produce, educate children, teens and adults on sustainable organic farming, and maintain our gardens