Holiday Market @ Honey's
Please join us and other wonderful vendors at Honey’s on Sunday, December 14th for a Holiday Market! Come shop our Oko Apothecary for dried herbs and teas, body oils, culinary oils, and bath scrubs — they make perfect holiday gifts for you or a loved one!
Friends of the Farm Holiday Market @ Farm.One
Join us and other vendors at Farm.One on Sunday, December 14th for a stacked lineup of local vendors selling all kinds of goodies — perfect for gifting (or treating yourself, because we all deserve something nice!). Expect greens + herbs, freshly baked goods, pizza, spirits, teas, and so much more!
Plus, there will be a special raffle! You definitely don’t want to miss this one.
Holiday Market @ Welcome Home
Join us at Welcome Home for a holiday market, featuring 9 incredible artists and crafters! The market will have everything from ceramics & jewelry to culinary oils & curated books! Not to mention candles, knits, holiday calendars, and handcrafted items made from secondhand textiles. Come do your holiday shopping and support these talented folks!
Swing by to say hi, grab a pastry and coffee, and support Oko Farms!
Action Works @ Patagonia Brooklyn
ACTION WORKS BROOKLYN @ PATAGONIA
Patagonia Brooklyn | 70 N 6th St, Brooklyn | 1-3PM
Join us THIS SUNDAY at Patagonia Brooklyn for an afternoon of shopping and connection!
Oko Farms will be tabling alongside other local organizations doing vital work in environmental conservation and sustainability. This is your chance to chat with our farmers and with other organizations behind the mission, learn how you can get involved, and celebrate the first-ever Patagonia Work-in-Progress Report!
Come ready to cross off some items on your holiday shopping lists as we’ll have merch, apothecary items, and more!
See you Sunday :)
Introduction to Aquaponics
Come learn about aquaponics!
Join us for our hands-on 1.5 hour workshop that will explore the basics of aquaponics farming including: the history, science, ecological benefits, plant propagation, fish selection and management and design options.
Roots of Connection: D is for Delight + Despair
In a world that pulls us toward disconnection, we’re practicing how to return—to ourselves, to each other, and to the earth.
Whether you're just beginning to explore plants, or you’ve long moved with their medicine...
Whether your body feels distant or deeply known
This space meets you right where you are.
D is for Delight + Despair
We hold delight and despair as two threads of being alive, woven closely together. In this session, we’ll notice how both live in the body, what they reveal about what we hold dear, and how they shape our lives. We’ll spend time with plant allies that steady and nourish us in the presence of each, move through somatic practices that help us honor their truth, and reflect on how community makes it possible to carry joy and sorrow side by side without forcing ourselves to choose one over the other.
Each month, we explore two plant friends, one letter of the alphabet, one emotion, and one somatic practice to reconnect. From Acceptance to Zeal, we listen for the ways our bodies speak, and remember how plants have always connected us through feeling, healing, and change.
This isn’t about fixing or overcoming ourselves.
It’s about learning how to stay with what’s here, with a bit more curiosity and compassion.
Each gathering includes:
✨ one emotion as a guide
✨ plant allies to steady and nourish
✨ a somatic practice to rest, release, or reclaim
✨ a ritual or reflection to carry into your month
This space welcomes both new and experienced plant practitioners.
You don’t need to have it figured out.
Your body is welcome. Your questions are welcome.
Your healing—complex, layered, and real—is welcome.
We begin in August with the letter A for acceptance.
Together, we explore:
🌿 How does this emotion live in my body, and what might it be trying to teach me?
🌿 What plants have supported people through this feeling across time and place?
🌿 What can this plant teach me about being in right relationship—with myself, with others, and with the planet?
🌿 How can I respond with more connection, care, and choice?
Purchasing With Purpose: A Values Based Community Workshop
Join the conversation shaping the future of New York’s food and agriculture—where insight sparks real policy action and lasting change.
This interactive workshop serves as a continuation of our recent values aligned purchasing roundtable with national leaders, focusing specifically on engaging New York practitioners in meaningful dialogue about advancing good food procurement practices. This session provides an invaluable opportunity for local practitioners to share their work, experiences, and challenges while developing actionable policy recommendations together.
The Oko Table: Harvest Feast
Harvest Feast, the second of the series, is a celebration of the resilient spirit of urban agriculture. The menu has been carefully designed by Yemi Amu, our founder and director, who began her journey as a chef and food educator. It showcases the fresh produce from our aquaponics farm, including our ethically-raised carp. Each dish embodies the potential of urban farming to tackle rising food security issues and the ongoing climate crisis.
We invite you to The Oko Table, where you can savor the abundance of our aquaponics farm, appreciate the richness of urban agriculture, and be part of the movement to increase food security for New York City residents.
Farming in the Margins: Diasporic Preservation and Ecological Resilience
Farming in the Margins: Diasporic Preservation and Ecological Resilience brings together diasporic farmers, seedkeepers, land stewards, and food justice activists to explore how farming can preserve cultural knowledge and memory.
About the Participants:
Mandana Boushee: Bridging land, plants, and poetry, Mandana Boushee’s work weaves together the wisdom of ecology, community organizing, and the power of storytelling, drawing on two decades of experience as an earth worker, ethnobotanist, writer, educator, and community herbalist. Whether through her care work as an herbalist, her advocacy for farmers through the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, or her poetry, the heart-mycelium feeding Mandana’s work remains clear: to connect, heal, and protect through the land and the stories that shape it.
Aliana Ruxin: Ali (she/her) stewards two farm sites with the Red Hook Farms team in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY. A founding member of the Iraqi Seed Collective, she grows and shares Iraqi seeds and their stories with other Iraqi and SWANA heritage growers in diaspora. She also organizes with food, farm, and hospitality worker collective FIG NYC. Ali’s favorite thing to grow this year was ta’roozi, a crunchy, slightly sweet Iraqi cucumber.
Francis Yu: Francis Yu is a queer Asian-American farmer (Star Route Farm) and a food systems + land access practitioner (West Branch Commons). They have a background in urban planning and policy and currently serve as an Adjunct Professor at NYU Wagner School of Public Service teaching about the intersections of race, class, gender, and the history of public policy and segregation in our cities. They enjoy cooking, hiking and foraging, and developing a poetry and writing practice. Francis has roots in Manila, Philippines, and in occupied Patwin territory (Vallejo, California).
West Branch Commons (WBC) is dedicated to advancing equitable land access as a community land trust. At its core, WBC’s mission is to provide secure, affordable land access to marginalized farmers, using an agroecological approach that de-commodifies land and promotes long-term stewardship. It seeks to do so on 287 acres of farmland in Delancey, Delaware County, New York currently owned by American Farmland Trust. WBC works with constellation of resources to educate the public and farmer lessees on farm viability, regional collaboration, and intergenerational knowledge transfer.
Yemi Amu: Yemi Amu is the Founder and Director of Oko Urban Farms, Inc. In 2013 she established NYC’s first and only publicly accessible outdoor aquaponics farm – The Oko Farms Aquaponics Farm and Education Center. She directs all of Oko Farms’ programs including education, design/build projects and community related activities. Yemi is one of NYC’s leading aquaponics experts and is a committed educator. Over the past decade, she has facilitated the creation and maintenance of over 20 edible spaces throughout NYC; created and implemented various culinary, nutrition and gardening programs for both youth and adults; and promotes aquaponics as a tool for environmental awareness and stewardship. Yemi has a M.A. in Health and Nutrition Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2021, Yemi became part of the inaugural cohort of the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab created by Theaster Gates and Prada.
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[Virtual] Introduction to Aquaponics: LECTURE 6 -Aquaponics Hardware + Design
[VIRTUAL] Introduction To Aquaponics (6-Week Series)
NOTE: THIS SERIES IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS BUT YOU CAN STILL SIGN UP! YOU WILL GET RECORDINGS OF THE PREVIOUS CLASSES!
(AUGUST 27 - OCTOBER 29, 2025)
This 6-week class takes a deep dive into the history, science, and practice of aquaponics - a unique ecosystem approach to farming.
Participants will gain insights into the aquaponics ecosystem, its significance in enhancing food security, and its role in promoting environmental stewardship.
PROGRAM GOALS:
Oko Farms strives to ensure participants exit our program with a strong foundation in Aquaponics System operation and design. The program emphasizes aquaponics as a natural ecosystem and permaculture applications. Participants will leave with the skills to develop and maintain sustainable aquaponics operations of various sizes, along with the capacity to engage the public on diverse topics relating to aquaponics, fish welfare, and ecosystem sustainability.
Workshop Details
Dates: Wednesdays (August 27 to Oct 29, 2025)
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Intro to Aquaponics (8/27)
Microbes + Nitrogen Cycle in AP (9/3)
Water Quality Parameters (9/17)
Fish Management and Welfare (10/1)
Plant Cultivation in AP (10/15)
Aquaponics Hardware + Design (10/29)
Earthfishing: Cooking with Fire, Clay, and Fish
Join us for the second iteration of Earthfishing, a workshop in collaboration with sculptor and researcher Sasha Fishman, ceramicist Abby Regner, and Oko Farms. Together, we will wrap fish (harvested from Oko’s aquaponics system) in clay, sculpt them, and cook them over open flame. We will then share a meal by the ocean, marking an evening of material exploration, connection with the surrounding waters of New York, and a ceremonial honoring of the fish as they transition into a new form.
Note: A full meal and drinks are included in this event.
About the Facilitators
Sasha Fishman is a sculptor and researcher based in New York. Working with materials such as hagfish slime, algae, and cicada shells, Sasha’s work investigates marine biomaterial extraction, toxicology and genetic engineering as points for critical analysis and mechanisms for sculpting.
Abigail Regner is a ceramic artist and educator based in Manhattan, New York. She earned her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2019. For the past six years, she has led workshops in a variety of specialized ceramic techniques—including large scale hand building and wheel throwing, nerikomi, and lustre firing—at studios across New York City.
Oko Farms’ mission is to promote aquaponics as an ecological farming method that mitigates the impact of climate change and increases food security for urban residents while demystifying aquaponics through awareness and education.
Benefit Concert for Oko Farms pres. by Aerthship x PR
Creative Collective, Aerthship, returns to Public Records for a benefit concert in support of Oko Farms.
Join us in raising funds for New York's only aquaponics farm. In 2024, the farm lost its lease. Now, we're helping them build a new, permanent home and community hub.
A first ever musical performance from Aerthship will be followed by a headline debut album performance by Sab Star. Lastly, Signature Cuts closes the night with a vinyl set. Oko Farms will be selling merch and apothecary items in the Garden.
100% of proceeds will be donated.
Introduction to Aquaponics
Come learn about aquaponics!
Join us for our hands-on 1.5 hour workshop that will explore the basics of aquaponics farming including: the history, science, ecological benefits, plant propagation, fish selection and management and design options.
Roots of Connection: C is for Compassion
In a world that pulls us toward disconnection, we’re practicing how to return—to ourselves, to each other, and to the earth.
Whether you're just beginning to explore plants, or you’ve long moved with their medicine...
Whether your body feels distant or deeply known. This space meets you right where you are.
C is for Compassion
Compassion is the courage to stay tender in a world that tries to numb us. In this session, we explore compassion as both balm and boundary, noticing how it moves through the body and shapes connection. Plants guide us toward softening without collapse, openness without overwhelm. Together, we will share plant allies that nurture the heart, explore embodied practices, and reflect on how to extend compassion inward and outward.
Each month, we explore two plant friends, one letter of the alphabet, one emotion, and one somatic practice to reconnect. From Acceptance to Zeal, we listen for the ways our bodies speak, and remember how plants have always connected us through feeling, healing, and change.
This isn’t about fixing or overcoming ourselves.
It’s about learning how to stay with what’s here, with a bit more curiosity and compassion.
Each gathering includes:
✨ one emotion as a guide
✨ plant allies to steady and nourish
✨ a somatic practice to rest, release, or reclaim
✨ a ritual or reflection to carry into your month
This space welcomes both new and experienced plant practitioners.
You don’t need to have it figured out.
Your body is welcome. Your questions are welcome.
Your healing—complex, layered, and real—is welcome.
We begin in August with the letter A for acceptance.
Together, we explore:
🌿 How does this emotion live in my body, and what might it be trying to teach me?
🌿 What plants have supported people through this feeling across time and place?
🌿 What can this plant teach me about being in right relationship—with myself, with others, and with the planet?
🌿 How can I respond with more connection, care, and choice?
[Virtual] Introduction to Aquaponics: LECTURE 5 -Plant Cultivation in AP
[VIRTUAL] Introduction To Aquaponics (6-Week Series)
NOTE: THIS SERIES IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS BUT YOU CAN STILL SIGN UP! YOU WILL GET RECORDINGS OF THE PREVIOUS CLASSES!
(AUGUST 27 - OCTOBER 29, 2025)
This 6-week class takes a deep dive into the history, science, and practice of aquaponics - a unique ecosystem approach to farming.
Participants will gain insights into the aquaponics ecosystem, its significance in enhancing food security, and its role in promoting environmental stewardship.
PROGRAM GOALS:
Oko Farms strives to ensure participants exit our program with a strong foundation in Aquaponics System operation and design. The program emphasizes aquaponics as a natural ecosystem and permaculture applications. Participants will leave with the skills to develop and maintain sustainable aquaponics operations of various sizes, along with the capacity to engage the public on diverse topics relating to aquaponics, fish welfare, and ecosystem sustainability.
Workshop Details
Dates: Wednesdays (August 27 to Oct 29, 2025)
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Intro to Aquaponics (8/27)
Microbes + Nitrogen Cycle in AP (9/3)
Water Quality Parameters (9/17)
Fish Management and Welfare (10/1)
Plant Cultivation in AP (10/15)
Aquaponics Hardware + Design (10/29)
The Oko Table: Small Chops
The Oko Table is a farm-to-table experience, blending communal dining, music, conversation, and fun games that aim to deepen our appreciation for New York City’s local food culture, urban agriculture, local fisheries, urban ecology, and much more! Each series centers around a unique theme, showcasing delicious food and drink crafted from Oko Farms’ produce.
The first of this series, Small Chops, is an evening filled with a delightful assortment of bite-sized foods, desserts, and beverages inspired by the vibrant flavors of West Africa, all prepared using ingredients sourced from our farm. Join us for a fun night of delicious food, music, and leave more enlightened about NYC’s local food system and ecology.
Community Sunday
JOIN US FOR COMMUNITY DAY AT OKO FARMS!!!
Come by the FARM STAND, say hi to our farmers and grab some produce, apothecary items, and NEW MERCH! Make your own immunity boosting HERB BUNDLES and HERBAL TINCTURES, then stop by one of our FLASH TOURS to check out what’s growing on the farm!! And don’t forget to say hi to this fish :)
There will be lots more fun activities happening at Brooklyn Roots Collective Oktoberfest!! Stick around and enjoy this transition into the Autumn season!!
We’re can’t wait to see you!!
[Virtual] Introduction to Aquaponics: LECTURE 4 - Fish Management and Welfare
[VIRTUAL] Introduction To Aquaponics (6-Week Series)
NOTE: THIS SERIES IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS BUT YOU CAN STILL SIGN UP! YOU WILL GET RECORDINGS OF THE PREVIOUS CLASSES!
(AUGUST 27 - OCTOBER 29, 2025)
This 6-week class takes a deep dive into the history, science, and practice of aquaponics - a unique ecosystem approach to farming.
Participants will gain insights into the aquaponics ecosystem, its significance in enhancing food security, and its role in promoting environmental stewardship.
PROGRAM GOALS:
Oko Farms strives to ensure participants exit our program with a strong foundation in Aquaponics System operation and design. The program emphasizes aquaponics as a natural ecosystem and permaculture applications. Participants will leave with the skills to develop and maintain sustainable aquaponics operations of various sizes, along with the capacity to engage the public on diverse topics relating to aquaponics, fish welfare, and ecosystem sustainability.
Workshop Details
Dates: Wednesdays (August 27 to Oct 29, 2025)
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Intro to Aquaponics (8/27)
Microbes + Nitrogen Cycle in AP (9/3)
Water Quality Parameters (9/17)
Fish Management and Welfare (10/1)
Plant Cultivation in AP (10/15)
Aquaponics Hardware + Design (10/29)
Roots of Connection: B is for Burnout
In a world that pulls us toward disconnection, we’re practicing how to return—to ourselves, to each other, and to the earth.
Whether you're just beginning to explore plants, or you’ve long moved with their medicine...
Whether your body feels distant or deeply known…
This space meets you right where you are.
B is for Burnout
Burnout is both a wound and a messenger, showing us where care is missing. In this session, we explore burnout as both personal and collective, noticing how it who we are to ourselves and each other.. Together, we will meet restorative plant allies, practice somatic tools for replenishment, and reflect on how to rebuild energy with gentleness and care.
Each month, we explore two plant friends, one letter of the alphabet, one emotion, and one somatic practice to reconnect. From Acceptance to Zeal, we listen for the ways our bodies speak, and remember how plants have always connected us through feeling, healing, and change.
This isn’t about fixing or overcoming ourselves.
It’s about learning how to stay with what’s here, with a bit more curiosity and compassion.
Each gathering includes:
✨ one emotion as a guide
✨ plant allies to steady and nourish
✨ a somatic practice to rest, release, or reclaim
✨ a ritual or reflection to carry into your month
This space welcomes both new and experienced plant practitioners.
You don’t need to have it figured out.
Your body is welcome. Your questions are welcome.
Your healing—complex, layered, and real—is welcome.
We begin in August with the letter A for acceptance.
Together, we explore:
🌿 How does this emotion live in my body, and what might it be trying to teach me?
🌿 What plants have supported people through this feeling across time and place?
🌿 What can this plant teach me about being in right relationship—with myself, with others, and with the planet?
🌿 How can I respond with more connection, care, and choice?
Introduction to Aquaponics
Come learn about aquaponics!
Join us for our hands-on 1.5 hour workshop that will explore the basics of aquaponics farming including: the history, science, ecological benefits, plant propagation, fish selection and management and design options.
[Virtual] Introduction to Aquaponics: LECTURE 3 - Water Quality Parameters
[VIRTUAL] Introduction To Aquaponics (6-Week Series)
NOTE: THIS SERIES IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS BUT YOU CAN STILL SIGN UP! YOU WILL GET RECORDINGS OF THE PREVIOUS CLASSES!
(AUGUST 27 - OCTOBER 29, 2025)
This 6-week class takes a deep dive into the history, science, and practice of aquaponics - a unique ecosystem approach to farming.
Participants will gain insights into the aquaponics ecosystem, its significance in enhancing food security, and its role in promoting environmental stewardship.
PROGRAM GOALS:
Oko Farms strives to ensure participants exit our program with a strong foundation in Aquaponics System operation and design. The program emphasizes aquaponics as a natural ecosystem and permaculture applications. Participants will leave with the skills to develop and maintain sustainable aquaponics operations of various sizes, along with the capacity to engage the public on diverse topics relating to aquaponics, fish welfare, and ecosystem sustainability.
Workshop Details
Dates: Wednesdays (August 27 to Oct 29, 2025)
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Intro to Aquaponics (8/27)
Microbes + Nitrogen Cycle in AP (9/3)
Water Quality Parameters (9/17)
Fish Management and Welfare (10/1)
Plant Cultivation in AP (10/15)
Aquaponics Hardware + Design (10/29)
Growing Season: A New Biome on Butler St
Join us at Public Records Saturday, August 23 for GROWING SEASON - an urban habitat that features ecologically-inspired workshops and a marketplace of plants, art, and earthly goods.
We will be there with herbs, apothecary items, merch and MORE!
Roots of Connection: Feeling with Plants and the Body
We begin with Acceptance—not as resignation or giving up, but as a practice of coming home to ourselves. In this session, we’ll explore how acceptance feels in the body, and how plants can help us build care, deepen capacity, and stay present with what’s real.
Together, we’ll spend time with two plant allies, move through a gentle somatic practice, and reflect on what it means to be in right relationship with ourselves, even in the midst of change.
In a world that pulls us toward disconnection, we’re practicing how to return—to ourselves, to each other, and to the earth.
Whether you're just beginning to explore plants, or you’ve long moved with their medicine...
Whether your body feels distant or deeply known
This space meets you right where you are.
Each month, we explore two plant friends, one letter of the alphabet, one emotion, and one somatic practice to reconnect. From Acceptance to Zeal, we listen for the ways our bodies speak, and remember how plants have always connected us through feeling, healing, and change.
This isn’t about fixing or overcoming ourselves.
It’s about learning how to stay with what’s here, with a bit more curiosity and compassion.
Each gathering includes:
✨ one emotion as a guide
✨ plant allies to steady and nourish
✨ a somatic practice to rest, release, or reclaim
✨ a ritual or reflection to carry into your month
This space welcomes both new and experienced plant practitioners.
You don’t need to have it figured out.
Your body is welcome. Your questions are welcome.
Your healing—complex, layered, and real—is welcome.
We begin in August with the letter A for acceptance.
Together, we explore:
🌿 How does this emotion live in my body, and what might it be trying to teach me?
🌿 What plants have supported people through this feeling across time and place?
🌿 What can this plant teach me about being in right relationship—with myself, with others, and with the planet?
🌿 How can I respond with more connection, care, and choice?
Introduction to Aquaponics
Come learn about aquaponics!
Join us for our hands-on 1.5 hour workshop that will explore the basics of aquaponics farming including: the history, science, ecological benefits, plant propagation, fish selection and management and design options.
GTHR Yoga @ Oko Farms
Come flow with GTHR Yoga! Liv will guide a 60 minute practice overlooking the farm! Farm tour and herbal Infusion at 6:30pm, class at 7pm.
Bring your own mat! :)
Oko Farms x Brooklyn Roots Collective OPEN HOUSE
Come check out our new headquarters at Brooklyn Roots Collective! We will show you our new Courtyard Aquaponics Installation, Herb Garden, and you can enjoy the delicious food and drinks BRC has to offer while browsing the sustainable marketplace!
We have been so looking forward to seeing you all and showing you what we’ve been up to! See you soon!