New Museum Street Fest : Farm Functionality meets Agrarian Celebration

The Greenhorns, a national grassroots nonprofit organization by and for America’s young farmers, will launch SEED CIRCUS at the New Museum’s StreetFest on May 7. SEED CIRCUS is a series of events featuring new inventions that are applicable in two fields: farm functionality and agrarian celebration.

For this first SEED CIRCUS event, Greenhorns will invite urban festivalgoers to join young farmers in an improvisational construction. The multipurpose meet-up tent they create together will build capacity on farms for community celebration.

The workshop-sized, quilt-like tent is meant to house young farmer scheming, socializing, and a future rich with farm revelry. Designed by Brooklyn-based artists sourcing surplus fabrics from Queens, the tent will be crafted in the Bowery with the combined muscle of New Yorkers and young farmers hailing from the city’s vast regional foodshed. A custom-built, pedal-powered sewing machine will provide the necessary friction for this proudly patchwork undertaking.

Be sure to swing by and say hello to Upholstery Instructor Elise Mcmahon this Saturday as she pedals for a great cause!