The TFFJ/Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Farm at the Murry Bergtraum Educational Campus

Location: Lower East Side (LES), Manhattan

Students: 1,300

Annual Production: 9,000 lbs (when fully operational in Fall 2024)

Year Launched: 2018

Co-located schools: The Urban Assembly Maker Academy; Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers; Manhattan Early College School for Advertising; The Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management.

• The TFFJ/Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Farm at the Murry Bergtraum Educational Campus — which will unfold over the next 18 months — will grow a projected 9,000 pounds of produce per year in a 1,500-square-foot space that is adjacent to the campus cafeteria. This produce will be served to 1,300 students in the campus cafeteria and distributed through partnerships with local community-based organizations to food-insecure community members.
• Urban Assembly Maker Academy students are already engaged in TFFJ programming in the lab in room 439 even before their farm is built, using smaller hydroponic towers, DIY grow-kits, and a vine crop system to grow food while also designing a “green wall” to live outside the farm classroom.

Major Funders: Green Mountain Energy Sun Club, New York City Council, Manhattan Borough President, NYC DOE Office of Space Planning, USDA Farm to School Program, New York State Senate

Community Partners: Coming Soon!