Bethlehem Environmental Commons is a grassroots nonprofit
It is guided by a board of community members and operates in partnership with the Town of Bethlehem Farms and Forests Conservation Program
The Goal?
To promote next-generation farmers, local food systems, conservation, and climate resilient agriculture.
The farm occupies a unique position at the urban, suburban, and rural edge, where neighborhoods and developments meet prime farmland. The site's proximity to Albany places it at a strategic crossroads connecting major cities across the Northeast via key north-south and east-west routes. This location is ideal for developing and demonstrating collaborative, sustainable food production, value-add processing, and innovative projects that support next-generation farmers.
We bring farmers together with shared access to land and resources where they can grow, earn, and contribute to a resilient local food system. This will ensure that our community land is thoughtfully stewarded for food production, conservation and public benefit.
Independent farmers
Shared infrastructure
A community connected to its food.
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican and Munsee Lenape people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.
Learn more about the Stockbridge Munsee Community, click here.