Strong connections to community are at the heart of Rock Steady.

We operate within an interconnected web of land partners, organizations, neighbors, peers and community organizers. Here are a few (ok, a few dozen!) of our key partners, and how they plug into our work.

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Food Access & CSA Partners

NORTH EAST COMMUNITY CENTER
Located just down the road from us, we’ve been working with NECC since our first season in 2016. They distribute weekly “Solidarity Shares” at no cost to low-income community members in Millerton and surrounding towns and we also provide wholesale produce for food pantries they manage. In addition, we have worked with local youth on farm through their internship and work programs.

FREE PEOPLE’S MARKET and GOOD FOOD FARMER NETWORK
Founded by Ruby Olisemeka, the Free People’s Market of Mt Vernon serves low-income community members experiencing food insecurity. They distribute our vegetables as part of our CSA’s Solidarity Share program. Good Food Farmer Network plugs into this effort by delivering the produce for us, supplementing additional farm fresh food products for the market, and helping with our fundraising efforts.

GMHC
Founded in the height of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, GMHC serves thousands of New Yorkers living with and affected by HIV/AIDs. They distribute our Solidarity Shares, and also provide community with nutritional support and a broad range of services.

ANCRAMDALE NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS
NHN is a small, grassroots volunteer organization in town of Ancramdale, about 20 minutes from us. Their programs assist local, working families with weekly supplemental food deliveries, emergency transportation and vehicle repairs, fuel assistance, home repairs and educational support and training. We’ve provide Solidarity Shares to 16 families.

GLYNWOOD
We’ve collaborated with Glynwood in many ways over the years! We are one of the farms piloting the CSA is a SNAP program, an effort to make Community Supported Agriculture more accessible for folks receiving SNAP benefits. We also participated in their Hudson Valley Farm Business Incubator program in 2019. And, we collaborated with them to launch the Food Sovereignty Fund.

CALLEN-LORDE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
Callen-Lorde is a leader in LGBTQIA+ health care, education and advocacy, providing services to the community regardless of ability to pay. We host CSA pick ups at both Callen Lorde’s Chelsea and Brooklyn locations, and work with Callen Lorde’s care coordinators to match eligible patients with our fully subsidized “Solidarity Shares”. CL has supported our farm from the jump!

FIG, COLECTIVO INTERCULTURAL TRANSGREDIENDO, & BLACK TRANS LIBERATION

FIG is a grassroots collective of people working to transform the food system from within. FIG develops solidarity-based systems to redistribute food industry resources, educate food professionals on sustainability & equity, and build community-based infrastructure for food security and a regenerative, local food economy. Rock Steady Farm has joined in FIG’s Food Security Program to partner with Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo and Black Trans Liberation.

Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo is an organization that works to promote and defend human rights and access to comprehensive health care for TransGNB, QBIPOC and Sex Workers, by strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender and gender expansive, and intersex communities in New York City, seeking to guarantee well-being and the right to a life free from all types of violence.

Black Trans Liberation aims to end homelessness within the trans population by providing access and resources from community partners that empower and celebrate the TGNC community. By keeping trans people off the street, we can dismantle the current 35 year life expectancy of Black Trans people and prevent systemic oppression.

Through FIG's program and collective network, Rock Steady Farm vegetables will be made available farmers' market-style and transformed into prepared foods for both Black Trans Liberation and Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo communities.

BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER

Brooklyn Community Pride Center, incorporated in 2008, provides services and support to the borough’s LGBTQ+ community through original programming and partnerships with other organizations. Big shout out to the BCPC team who volunteer their time and space to host our CSA distribution and support SNAP users to participate in Glynwood’s CSA is a SNAP program.