Choy Division Located at the Chester Agricultural Center in Orange County — a land trust for small farmers using organic management practices — Choy Division is a 4-acre diversified vegetable farm with a focus on East Asian heritage crops grown using regenerative agricultural techniques. Founded in 2019 with its first iteration as an urban farm in Astoria, Queens, Choy Division grew on the Black Dirt, one of the richest farmland regions in the US, and uses no inputs whatsoever — no compost, no amendments, no spray.

"Our farming decisions are made with soil biodiversity and ecosystem health as a primary factor, not just productivity and profit."

Gentle Time Gentle Time farms no-till on permanent beds in the Hudson Valley, on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican Nation and Haudenosaunee. They never use chemicals, pesticides, fungicides, or commercial sprays, and make their own compost on site from spent mushroom blocks and manure. Gentle Time is human-scale and committed to QTBIPOC farmer solidarity and long-term cooperative land stewardship.

"We follow all organic practices and go beyond the USDA Organic certification standards to grow even cleaner and more sustainably."

Star Route Farm Star Route Farm is located in Otsego County in the upper Catskill region of New York, on alluvial and glacial till deposits of the Charlotte Creek Valley. Their 6 acres of production fields are bisected by state and federally protected wetlands, home to bald eagles, herons, bitterns, and many other species. Star Route uses a permanent bed system transitioning to no-till, with soil organic matter between 8–9%. Fertility comes from green manure, cover crops, basalt volcanic rock dust, alfalfa meal, and vermicompost — no synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides.