Oneonta Public Market

We are a small artsy group farming vegetables on a plateau in the hills above Otego creek in the upper Susquehanna River valley. We work to provide tasty food and creative gifts to local people.

We are in our fifth season growing diversified certified organic vegetables on approximately one acre. The farm (est. 2021) is located in Laurens just north of Oneonta in New York.

We aspire towards an egalitarian worker-owned cooperative model, although we are still in the process of setting up appropriate infrastructure and organizational systems. In the meantime, we function more like a chosen family group pooling resources from savings, off-farm income, and shared housing to support our life and operational goals.

The land we tend has been stewarded for thousands of years by the Onenio'ta'à:ka (People of the Standing Stone, [Oneida]) of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. About fifty years ago it was clear cut for private use, and in the past two decades it has been used for hay, parking, recreation, and hunting. We intend to do whatever we can to do right by the Land and those whose traditions are tied to and have grown alongside this Land. We acknowledge that given our positionality and complicity in global harm as white class-privileged settlers whose legacy is one of betrayed trust and dishonorable priorities, it's possible for us to do more harm than good. We are committed to receiving feedback from those who know better and changing to benefit the wellbeing of the people and the Land. To the best of our current knowledge and ability, our practices center relational integrity, ecological regeneration, and historical responsibility.