Rahma Edible Forest Snack Garden

05/28/2024

Get ready for the Northern Nut Growers Association conference coming to Syracuse in partnership with SUNY ESF from July 21-24. I'll be speaking on a panel about the business of growing as a cooperative business entity on Monday the 22nd. https://nutgrowing.org/annual-conference-2024/

05/04/2024

Join us on Monday May 6 at 5:30 for a Plant Walk to learn about the many edible plants and greens available right now for foraging and what fruits and berries we'll have in the coming months. RSVP if you can join us! https://forms.gle/LVPuJ6AASegadoFZ7

Meet at 5:30PM at the Rahma Health Clinic parking lot!

05/01/2024

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Rahma Food Forest Garden, 3100 South Salina St, Syracuse, NY 13205 Monday May 6th, 5:30-6:30PM Community forest garden walk and foraging to learn and share about the bounty of free and nutritious edible greens that are growing in Syracuse and Central New York. We'll identify over 20 edible plants in...

04/28/2024

Any gardeners out there into foraging wild edible plants? Join the Alchemical Nursery for a foraging walk at the Rahma Edible Forest Snack Garden on Monday May 6th at 5:30 pm. RSVP at

Rahma Food Forest Garden, 3100 South Salina St, Syracuse, NY 13205 Monday May 6th, 5:30-6:30PM Community forest garden walk and foraging to learn and share about the bounty of free and nutritious edible greens that are growing in Syracuse and Central New York. We'll identify over 20 edible plants in...

04/21/2024

On Monday May 6th, from 5:30pm-6:30pm, Rahma is hosting a foraging walk to discover all the delicious and nutritious greens growing in our backyards and community gardens. The walk will be led and facilitated by Frank Cetera, and up to 20 edible plants will be identified in just one hour! Dress for the weather, we are out rain or shine. FREE. Suggested donation $5-15 to benefit the Alchemical Nursery. Please RSVP at

Rahma Food Forest Garden, 3100 South Salina St, Syracuse, NY 13205 Monday May 6th, 5:30-6:30PM Community forest garden walk and foraging to learn and share about the bounty of free and nutritious edible greens that are growing in Syracuse and Central New York. We'll identify over 20 edible plants in...

04/20/2024

Another great opening day at the Rahma Edible Forest Snack Garden unloaded our compost and mulch for the season, picked trash, and planted three trees. Stay tuned for an upcoming edibles w**d walk at Rahma.

04/17/2024

Volunteer Opportunity: Forest Garden Openings and Resource Day
Saturday April 20th, 2024

610 Gifford St Community Garden from 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
https://www.facebook.com/610GiffordStreetCommunityGarden
3100 S. Salina St Rahma Forest Garden from 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
https://www.facebook.com/rahmaforestgarden

> Syracuse Grows Resource Drive compost and mulch truck unloading.
> Trash pick-up and garden organizing.
> Pruning and w**ding.
> Dividing, propagating and potting up for the Alchemical Nursery 9th annual plant sale that will take place on Saturday May 11th.

Join the Alchemical Nursery to open up our community garden sites for 2024, come to one or both. These community gardens are unique in Syracuse in that they are mini-forests, fully planted and tended with perennial species, both native and naturalized. Participate in food access and ecological stewardship together.Dress for the weather. Bring tools and gloves if you have them.

Please RSVP at

610 Gifford St Community Garden from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM 3100 South Salina St Rahma Forest Garden from 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Syracuse Grows Resource Drive compost and mulch truck unloading. Trash pick-up and garden organizing. Pruning and w**ding. Dividing, propagating and potting up for the Alchemical....

02/18/2024

Updated member tiers and benefits for 2024 now posted for becoming and adjusting your patronage of our land stewardship work in the City of Syracuse. All member levels now receive the same benefits, and patrons choose the amount they contribute based on the Green Bottle sliding scale model.
> An Alchemical Nursery Project water bottle.
> 50% off purchase of garden art signs.
> $10 credit to each Spring's annual plant sale.
> Promotional Specials on Plant Sale Gift Card Orders.
> a Paper Copy of all newly published organizational Zines.
>Permaculture Design Certificate credit for completion of ANP PDC sessions.

The Green Bottle chart below expands our understanding of financial privilege and experience. All member tiers provide the same benefits, so please use sliding scale green bottle chart to determine the level you’re able to contribute.

Creating Permaculture Landscapes & Sustainable Urban Ecosystems

06/23/2023

Our big seven at Rahma Edible Forest Snack Garden - honey , staghorn , box elder, , wild vine, , **d. What's your big seven at your location?

03/12/2023

With great thanks to the at Cooperative Gardens Commission we have received a seed hub package in the mail to distribute locally! These will be available at all of the Alchemical Nursery and Bitternut Homestead on Otisco Street community events, including our Earth Day activities, our regular volunteer work sessions at the gardens, and even our open workshops at the Depot. Plus anywhere else we happen to be present for an event or activity. The bulk seed packs are meant to be divided into smaller packs as you need for your own garden (we have coin size envelopes for that purpose for you to use). In total, the amount contained in all of these bulk packets on average, can provide 300 family-sized seed bundles.

07/11/2022

Yellow plums ready for eating!

05/17/2022

We love this feature article in the May/June 2022 issue of the Upstate Gardeners' Journal all about Rahma Edible Forest Snack Garden on pages 8-11 - read it and more at the free online version at https://issuu.com/upstategardenersjournal/docs/may-june-2022-full-filer_

05/03/2022

Growing Together Syracuse, a short spring walking tour, and a reminder of our Spring Plant Sale Fundraiser - details at https://fb.me/e/1ETM5xZUU - Orders due by Wednesday at 11:59 PM, pickup this Saturday between 11 am - 2 pm.

04/24/2022

A warming turnout by the Public Health Interest Group allowed us to tackle a bit of an experimental task to try and keep the field bindw**d at bay from invading more of the forest garden site. We dug a line in the "sand", a trench as deep as we could go before hitting the backfill rubble on the site which was about 6-9 inches. Research shows that the vast majority of bindw**d lateral roots are within the top 1 foot, so if they want to try and go under that 6-9 inch trench they will have to do so through the hard scrabble rubble, gravel, and bricks and stones; we'll see. In any case, we double mulched the far side of the trench with overlapping two layers of cardboard and a couple inches of compost; planted about 50 divisions through the cardboard every 12 inches or so, and we'll check back on the bindw**d situation all season long!

11/23/2021

We got mentioned in this article today about urban foraging in Syracuse :>) Alchemical Nursery Frank Raymond Cetera

Urban Food Forest Project sees Syracuse city as ripe with edible plants

11/01/2021

We opened up space for the golden raspberries, elderberry hedgeline, and some baby hazel; and we pulled loads of bindw**d from our raised beds, jostaberry, rhubarb, and blackberry. Such a great turnout! Thanks to Yasmeen Awayda for initiating the workday on behalf of the Public Health Interest Group club. If you're group is looking for a volunteer opportunity supporting public health, local food systems, and ecological landscaping, give us a shout. Thanks to all the volunteers including Timothy Farfaglia, Ursula Rozum, Alison Mullan-Stout, Naima Barbour, and all the other volunteers we don't have the ability to tag. You can also support our work by becoming a monthly supporting member donor at patreon.com/alchemicalnursery

09/05/2021