Farmony Garden started back in 2006 when local resident Clare Consiglio broke ground to create a garden that would teach kids about nutrition. Sloatsburg Elementary School kids helped tend garden back then and fresh vegetables were donated to the Sloatsburg Food Pantry.

These days, Farmony Garden is tended by Sloatsburg resident Marianne Krichevsky, a interior designer active in the Sloatsburg Chamber of Commerce, where she runs the chamber’s popular social media on Facebook and Instagram.

Randi Colton puts down fresh black dirt to help prepare Farmony Garden for spring planting.

Krichevsky was joined recently by Kathy Goldman, a board member for both the Sloatsburg Chamber and Harmony Hall, and local health educator Randi Colton.

Harmony Hall Curator Geoff Welch also worked the morning in the garden.

The garden is a place is secret green wonders, in season full of such things as big bushy herbs, flowering squashes and collard leafs. Farmony is a complete organic landscape that is tended by Krichevsky and a like-minded community of volunteers.

Kathy Goldman work the Farmony Garden vegetable patch.

Harmony Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is known throughout Rockland County for its Annual Highlands Bluegrass Festival, sponsored by Rockland County Tourism and the Town of Ramapo. Harmony Hall is an important Sloatsburg institution that holds seasonal and other events that draw people from throughout the Hudson Valley. Built by Jacob Sloat in 1848, the avant-guard Greek Revival house passed out of the Sloat family in 1908. Today, the Friends of Harmony Hall work to restore the house and have established the property as an important historical, environmental and education center for the Ramapo Highlands region.