#okofarms

[valeryrizzo]

Yemi Au, Oko Frams, WELL + GOOD Longevity Project in Partnership with Lexus.

https://www.wellandgood.com/longevity-project-food-lexus/

[seedkeeping]

We are seed keepers. Keeping seeds is an act of Truelove for our past and our collective future. Together with over 70 farms and gardens in our region and across the country, we share the seeds and stories of our beloved foodways across our diasporas: for us, grown by us. Together we learn how to best love our plant relatives, how to midwife their next generations, and how to carry forward their rich origin stories. We mentor apprentices and new seed growers and they teach us too. We send seeds back home. We do all this through the support of your seed orders: seed packet by seed packet. Half of each packet sale goes directly to our growers, honoring their work, their culture, and their expertise. We thresh: pulling the new from the old. We winnow: blowing the chaff from the world that is to come. We are seed keepers and it is our great joy and honor to be part of your seed journey. 1. @ainbaz with Smooth Bitter Melon from @resilientrootsfarm 2. Aleho (Nigerian leaf amaranth) from @justeviateas 3. Transkutukú Peanuts from the Shuar and Achuar communities of the Morona Santiago jungle, Ecuador. 4. Guar Gum, grown at the request of @nitalvadalia 5. Ethiopian Blue Mustard from Menkir Tamrat, an Ethiopian tech-worker turned farmer who introduced these seeds and other Ethiopian varieties to @artisan.seeds. 6. Fantastic Mr. Fox dahlia, named by @snapdragonflowersphilly. Dahlias are known as Cocoxochitl in Nahuatl and are an Aztec food crop. 7. Waterleaf aka Efo Gbure, from @okofarms with flowers closed up before an afternoon rain storm. #seedkeeping (at Glen Mills, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf9MY8JuGVO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sustainablesabs]

Meet Yemi Amu, she’s the co-founder and farm manager of @okofarms, an aquaponics farm in Brooklyn promoting environmental stewardship, and this week’s #companiesthatactuallygiveashit highlight. Through educational workshops and community building, Oko Farms has been able to promote sustainable urban farming, and Yemi has helped to create dozens of edible spaces throughout NYC! How freakin cool is that? You can learn more about @okofarms and the amazing educational work they’re doing on their IG page and through the link in their bio 💕 [image description: Yemi wears a headwrap, scarf, and denim jacket, and smiles as she carries a red bucket full of what looks to be tat soi. She is standing at Oko Farms.] • #companiesthatactuallygiveashit was started back when there was a lot of controversy around Package Free, and people were looking to find #sustainable and #POC-led brands. Inspired by @zerowastehabesha’s #RepresentationMattersinSustainability series, the goal is to highlight brands that we should all be supporting, and show that this movement isn’t exclusively for white, upper/middle class women. I have a lot of privilege and want to lend my platform to uplifting brands and voices that have been and continue to make a difference in the world. If you know of any brands you’d like to see highlighted, please tag them in the comments below and I’ll add them to the list 😊😊 • • • #doyougiveashit #representationmatters #lowimpactmovement #zerowaste #ethical #sustainableliving #gogreen #reduce #reuse #recycle #repurpose #nowaste #notrash #noplastic #wastefree #trashfree #plasticfree #stewardship #sustainable #ecofriendly #vegansofig #ethical #slowliving #aquaponic #farm #urbanfarm (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B29SXOzHMCL/?igshid=77mywvbpe042

[mamatanyadf-blog]

I had a BALL at @weeksvilleheritagecenter today talking about food, mothering while Black and liberation with my amazing copanelist Yemi from @okofarms. See my full talk on my personal FB page (Tanya Denise Fields) #speakingengagement #gigs #iworkallweek #mamatanya #bosslady #bossbabe #panelist (at Weeksville Heritage Center)

[moorestreetfarm]

Basil in the deep water grow bed. #aquaponics #okofarms #brooklyn #urbanfarming

[valeryrizzo]

Photographs of Yemi Amu, Oko Farms in an article about Aquaponics in Scholastic’s Action Magazine / April 2023 Issue.

[valeryrizzo]

Yemisi Awosan of Egunsifoods starting egusi seeds with Yemi Amu at Yoko Farms, Brooklyn, New York.

[seedkeeping]

Waterleaf // Gbure. This winter our friend Yemi Amu from @okofarms sent us some seeds for this beautiful plant (as well a few Ugwu or Fluted Pumpkin seeds) so we could cultivate them and attempt to make them more available to Nigerians who live here. On Wednesday we harvested our first Gbure seeds! We harvested the whole branch and laid it out to dry so that the seeds would collect on the fabric below. Several people including my coworker Amirah and my partner Chris remarked that they were similar to Purslane. They were once considered to be in the Purslane family (but no longer) and apparently one of their names is Surinam Purslane. Like purslane, they are succulent with brittle seed pods that bursts open, they grow like a weed, and they are packed with vitamins and minerals. From watching lots of YouTube cooking videos, including one by @ndudu_by_fafa, I learned that it’s often made into a soup with other vegetables like Ugwu leaf and Egusi seeds, as well as fish and sometimes shrimp powder. I am very new to this plant, so I’d love to hear how you grow and eat it if you’d be willing to share! We hope to be able to offer seeds from Gbure, Nigerian Spinach, Egusi, and Ewedu next year. Crossing fingers we also get seeds from our Ugwu plants! #talinumfruticosum #gbure #waterleaf #philippinespinach #cariru #surinampurslane #nelabasale #seedkeeping #nigerianfood (at Newtown Square, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDkoRl7A5s-/?igshid=1qg6u1atumaym

[moorestreetfarm]

Nasturtium growing in the media bed. #aquaponics #okofarms #aquaponics #brooklyn

[moorestreetfarm]

Middle-schoolers checking out all of the fun organisms that live in our aquaponics eco-system. #okofarms #aquaponics #brooklyn

[moorestreetfarm]

The aquaponics system may not yet be ready for the season, but we're growing food. Here's a first harvest of the season - French Breakfast Radish - grown in soil and irrigated with water from our aquaponics system. #okofarms #aquaponics #urbanfarming #brooklyn

[moorestreetfarm]

One of our many creative ways of keeping the water warm until the greenhouse arrives #aquaponics #okofarms #brooklyn #tilapiaaretropicalfish

[moorestreetfarm]

Another successful market at Bread Love in BedStuy. #aquaponics #okofarms #moorestfarm #brooklyn #breadlove

[moorestreetfarm]

#okofarms #brooklyn #moorestfarm #aquaponics

[moorestreetfarm]

Our standout at the market today. #okofarms #aquaponics #moorestfarm #breadlove #brooklyn

[moorestreetfarm]

It is a beautiful Sunday morning at #BreadLove. Farmers Market + Brunch in Bed-Stuy. #okofarms #aquaponics #urbanfarm #moorestfarm #brooklyn