Event Details

Build the skills you need to grow your own produce!

  • WHEN: Sunday, April 6, 2025; 10am–11:30am
  • WHERE: Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, NY 11004
  • TICKETS: $48 General Admission


Interested in growing food, but not sure how to start? Through this class you will learn the basics from Queens Farm's Agriculture Director so you can plan your vegetable garden with confidence. Get useful tips on how to turn any backyard site into a garden, choose your crops, propagate plants, care for seedlings, encourage pollinators, and more. The class will emphasize organic methods so that you can grow fresh, healthy food that’s good for your body and good for the planet.

Courtney Sartini, Queens Farm’s Director of Agriculture, holds a BS in Environmental Science with a minor in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of Rhode Island. Prior to joining QCFM, she founded and ran a three-acre farm in western Rhode Island called Hocus Pocus Farm, helped found a non-profit market garden in Wayland, Massachusetts, and spent a number of seasons working at historic Casey Farm in Saunderstown, Rhode Island. She also has experience with ecological landscape design and garden maintenance, orcharding, small-scale growing, soil science, and plant identification.

FAST FAQs:

  • Advance online tickets are required as capacity is limited.
  • This class is part of the Public Education Program at QCFM and is recommended for teens and adults.
  • Class will take place in the Education Building along the main path.
  • Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
  • Email confirmation will automatically be sent to you upon completion of purchase.
  • Farm members are eligible for 15% off this program. Select “I have a membership” during checkout to apply discount.
  • Free event parking and bicycle racks available.
  • Farm grounds and restrooms are accessible.
  • Strollers, backpacks and bottled water are permitted on our grounds. No designated storage or bag check available.

QUESTIONS? Email [email protected] Mon–Fri and a member of our team will get back to you.

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  • Queens County Farm Museum
  • 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, NY, 11004 US
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By entering an event or program at Queens County Farm Museum, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur.

Your entry and presence on the event premises constitutes your consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded and to the release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction of any and all recorded media of your appearance, voice, and name for any purpose whatsoever in perpetuity in connection with the Queens County Farm Museum and its initiatives, including, by way of example only, use on websites, in social media, news and advertising.

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• Queens Farm is smoke-free. Smoking is not allowed anywhere on the premises.
• Do not pick produce, or flowers, walk into growing fields or climb trees.
• For the health of our livestock, please do not feed animals anything except food for sale on site.
• Pets are not allowed, for the safety of the farm animals and visitors. Service animals are permitted as described by the ADA.
• Queens Farm is home to a variety of livestock including hens, steer, alpacas, sheep, goats and pigs, who live in designated coops and paddocks on the farm. Guests are required to remain outside of fenced areas at all times during their visit.
• Our 47 acres of grounds contain wooded areas, which are home to local wildlife. Do not feed or approach any animals you may encounter in their natural habitat.
• Strollers, backpacks, and bottled water are permitted on the grounds. No designated storage for strollers, bags, or coats.
• For the safety of our staff and visitors, there is no bicycling, rollerblading or electric scootering is allowed on-site. Bicycle racks are available on-site.
• Casual visitor photography is permitted, however staged photos, photo shoots and commercial photography requires a farm issued permit and payment of applicable fees.

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