Garden of joy
We are passionate about learning from the land and co-creating with it.
Tivoli Community Farm is our main “home base” in the old baseball field previously part of the former Livingston School.
Before the garden, this was a flat baseball field, but we transformed it into a bountiful space by creating raised garden beds using the hugelkultur method.
Hugelkultur beds use woody material from the Tivoli Lake Preserve and many layers of organic material, including our homemade compost, to create nutrient-rich mounds that decompose over time and are excellent at retaining moisture!
About Our Gardens
Our garden is not a typical community garden where individuals get their own plot. Instead, we collaboratively create and tend it together during weekly garden work parties—harvest is collected and shared by all. Our high school interns are an integral part of this process.
During garden work party evenings, we split into groups to tend the various areas—flax and other beds alike. With a large enough group, we may also head out to clean up litter along the Tivoli trails.
We are dedicated to working collaboratively to learn, grow together, and bring joy, curiosity, and beauty to the community.
Each season is like a blank canvas, though we welcome back several perennials each year. We fill the beds with various veggies, flowers, and herbs meant as landing spaces and beacons for pollinators.
Our beds may include plants considered "weeds" elsewhere—many of which have real value in herbalism (nettles and managed burdock, for example). We believe in allowing the Earth to have plant coverage rather than leaving soil bare, and our ethos is one of co-creation: not everything needs to be fully controlled. We do our best to collaborate with the Earth itself, humbly remaining curious and open to longer timelines than we may witness.
Flax-to-Linen program
That said, we do maintain a more structured space: our flax garden.
When working with flax, you'll help grow, process, and learn about this beautiful plant and fiber across the full growing season. You'll explore the history of flax production and this plant's deep relationship with people over generations—and we hope you'll develop your own relationship with its entire life cycle, including hand-processing techniques that turn prior harvests into cloth.
From 2020-2025, we explored growing squash, pumpkins, flowers, and creating a sunflower spiral. We shared this space with the Radix Center.
Starting in 2026, we will be focusing our garden efforts on our Tivoli garden space.
COMMUNITY COMPOST: FOOD SCRAP DROP OFF PROGRAM
We are accepting food scraps to be composted! This is located at the entrance by our farm.
