Emergent Abundance Farming Collective

Learn. Grow. Nourish. Give.

The Emergent Abundance Farming Collective (EAFC) is a vibrant community of passionate, environmentally conscious individuals dedicated to promoting local, sustainable farming as a solution to food insecurity. Founded in 2020 by Julia Smagorinsky, MAgrSc, our mission is to achieve food sovereignty for all by empowering others to recognize and tap into the abundance that surrounds us.

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Membership Information

Information on being a member of our farming collective, how you can join, and what we do.

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Shared Abundance

Our mission has always been to share the bounty of the land with organizations committed to providing healthy produce to neighbors in need.

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YouTube Page

Take a look at the videos created by our community members, where they share practical skills in gardening, preserving, and cooking.

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'A Place In The Conversation' a podcast featuring a couple members from the Emergent Abundance Farming Collective

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Join Free Food For All Wilmington tomorrow in Honoring Native American Food Heritage and Solidarity.

Garlic was planted sometime in October and here we are with some of the harvest 🧄

come see our little willow hutch that’s starting to take true form and be a safe haven for the kiddos to get some shade and feel enveloped in the garden space

Three sisters garden shooting up towards the sky!

Here to give a huge shoutout to our entire team that puts their love, care, and attention towards this season, most recent update is we harvested and donated 84lbs of fresh produce to @kennettareacommunityservice , Basil, beets, green beans, jalapeños, cucumbers, zucchini, okra, and cabbage to name a few veggies and herbs included in this part of the szn.

Stay tuned and check out our page if interested in coming out and enjoying the garden yourself!

Link in bio 💚 join us this spring it’s going to be a beautiful year

We are so glad to be friends with @kennett_library ! Congratulations on the beautiful new space! Looking forward to lots of growing and sharing opportunities! 💚
#kennettlibrary
#farmingcollective
#sharingabundance

Three Sisters Strong
Sunflower Power
More flowers!

beans, peppers, squash, eggplant, lettuce, cilantro, basil and lamb’s quarters delivered to KACS! 💚
Have a bountiful day!

If you are interested in joining or are an existing member this is the time to renew your membership. Find the instructions and link on our website in bio under “Member Information” ✨

The garlic patches wishes you all the very best Valentine’s Day! Hoping you all have the most garlicky breaths on whatever brings you joy today. ❤️🌷

We are out here this beautiful morning filling in a ditch for the new potato garden bed. I (Trevor) already tripped a few times in the ditch, so we decided to fill it in together. Team work makes the plants dreams work!

What kind of potato is your favorite kind? What’s your favorite dish to make with potatoes?

~leader of berries post rain~
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[ID: a close up of a strawberry plants fruit production showcasing some of it’s many stages! Can’t wait till these are ready for harvesting!]

May flowers have emerged early!
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[Image Descriptions:
1: First image is focused on the small pink and yellow apple tree flowers from the apple trees we grafted in 2020 and transplanted to this field in 2021
2: The second picture is focused on the strawberry patch we put in last summer in full bloom with their little white flowers leading the berries to fruition as they do!]

No, seriously..
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You can make a heaven on earth with teamwork, love and community support!
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[Reel Description:
Original Audio Mashup: “No, seriously…what is this place? This is Heaven” followed by a clip of ‘White Town-Your Woman (The white Panda Remix ft Dorrough)
Clip 1: close up of Basil, zooming out to reveal Venus Field
Clip 2: @battybatss and their ducks putting in work to clear out Danu field
Clip 3: #Raspberries
Clip 4: #Lettuces
Clip 5: #Asparagus plants
Clip 6: Puffball stomps
Clip 7: Purple Basil and Oregano
Clip 8: Potato Harvest with @n0ts0rryAri
Clip 9: @_moniquenicole_ giving gentle puffball magic
Clip 10: tomatoes, squash & peppers OH MY!
Clip 11: Turkey Tail growth
Clip 12: Bestie walks]

It’s the three sisters blooms for me!
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[Image Descriptions:
1: Main focus is on a bright yellow poppy growing in Danu’s pollinator garden with dozens of other white and purple flowers and lots of green around and in the background!
2: A single bright purple flower surrounded by it’s future: long royal purple bean casings growing on a white metal frame in our children’s garden!
3. Cluster of several small white flowers drooping down above the potato leaves in our little potato plot
4. Our Three Sisters farm was requested by the Lenape Nation and the pink corn silks on these blue and candy corn were so beautiful to watch grow and flutter in the wind, especially with the bean twining around them putting out cute little white and purple flowers, depending on where you looked💜
5. A look up from the Three sisters garden again showcasing our squash flower in full bloom!
6: Last but not least light lavender florals with their future shown in the background a beautiful eggplant sits shining]

We’re on YouTube!
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Every minute spent at the farm with Julia listening to all the knowledge she has to share the thought “I should be filming this” crosses my mind often!
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Huge thank you to @karengowenphotography for helping us put these videos together, we are so grateful you continue to show up and bring your gifts to our collective as a dedicated member!
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[Reel Description: a screen recorded video scrolling through our YouTube page]

Calling local artists!
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We are planning a springtime community project to repaint our 6 main field posts and if your gift is painting we would love nothing more than for your talent to emerge in a beautiful way that will only add to the magic of what we are creating here!
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This is NOT a paid project we are a nonprofit, but we are ALWAYS looking for new members to join us in our fight against food insecurity and reconnection to the land!
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[Image Descriptions: Our six fields each have a name and to counter confusion we utilized the wooden posts that @yeshyoko put in last summer for our irrigation system to label them, snapped on a snowy day the field looks ever magical but it’s still time for a little paint upgrade! Who’s in?]

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[Reel Description: The first image has the words “POV: You’re a soldier beetle watching a field change and a human talk to themself😂” and the image is of a bright pink snapdragon and a field full of onions in the back!
Next it cuts to a video of Ari pretending to have a conversation with the snapdragons one foggy morning post harvest and it went like:
“Oh, what happened to all of the onions?” -Ari
“The humans, they came and harvested…” -(also Ari)
“ALL OF THEM” -Ari (in the weirdest voice of all🤣)

The reel then continues on to show some close up images of the snapdragons giving me judgmental looks and the words “Where’d they go?😡” coming out of a particularly judgemetal looking flower that appears to have an “eyebrow” petal cocked like😒]

#EAFC #EmergentAbundance #EmergentAbundanceFarmingCollective #Snapdragons #floralhumor #Sass #OnionHarvest #PostHarvest #TalkingToMyself #onions #SnapDragonsSpeaks

We're very excited to continue our film and conversation series at the Kennett Library this Thursday evening!

[Image Description: A photo from the bottom of the field showcasing the abundance of summertime featuring the words "EAFC presents a film and conversation series centering Permaculture and our changing environment! Thursday, January 27th, 6-9pm @ Kennett Library" written in the sky and on the roof of the "famous" building from the Kate Winslet movie 'Mare of Easttown']

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[Reel Description: Six short video clips set to a serenade by @ibeyiofficial
Clip 1: a vine of long dark purple beans with one of their bright purple flowers shining on the vine surrounded by lengthy beautiful beans that produced white seeds
Clip 2: A honeybee visiting a sunflower that beams above some orange marigolds and spaghetti squash leaves
Clip 3: a lone bright pink snapdragon protecting our pepper patch
Clip 4: close up of a white cosmo flower swaying in the breeze
Clip 5: a pale pink cluster of snapdragons growing above the canopy of spaghetti squash leaves that shelter a growing gord
Clip 6: purple corn silks popping out with the white flowers of beans growing up, alongside and around their stalks in our three sisters garden]

~•The “Ooh” in Ootheca•~
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This Carolina Praying Mantis egg casing (aka ootheca) on a citrus branch was quite the mesmerizing find yesterday!
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In the coming months this web of thorns will unfurl leaves and hundreds of tiny mantids will emerge!
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[Image Description: Carolina praying mantis ootheca covers the underside of an unbarked green branch]
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#CarolinaPrayingMantis #ootheca
#OutdoorCitrusTreesOfPennsylvania
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Semi-unrelated note:
How come we have multiple 🦖 dinosaurs 🦕 but no praying manti?

We’re so excited to officially announce our partnership with Open Collective!

This is an incredible company that allows us to focus on our goals of educating and growing food and less on paperwork!

[Image Description: a screenshot of the @opencollective website page for our nonprofit, words on image:“Emergent Abundance Farming Collective
Fiscal Host: Open Collective Foundation
Our mission is to enhance the resilience of our community by creating abundant landscapes rich with food and ecological habitat, and by sharing food, knowledge, skills, resources and access to land with the local community.”
There’s also some Mexican sunflowers showing off their beautiful bright orange in the top right hand corner from the farm in summer]

Spent the last day of the year with this Goddess who brought several types of flower bulbs for the field that we cannot wait to see start growing this year!

Comment below if you took advantage of this warm winter we’re having and “late” planted anything in the month of December?

[Image Description: A living Goddess standing at the end of the field we named after the Goddess Juno while holding up bags of flower bulbs that were brought as a thanks and an offering to the field for all the abundance it continues to provide]

Permaculture Principals discussion and educational video series starting Thursday, December 16th and continuing January 6th at the Kennett Library!

Hope to see you there!

[Image Description: virtual flyer to raise awareness for our Permaculture Principles discussions and video series, Thursday evenings 6pm-9pm at the Kennett Public Library!]

🎵Service is but magic moving through the world🎶

[Reel Description: Ari harvesting the potato patch and cover cropping the exposed soil with winter oats so that ki can thank the land for the potatoes, protect and bring nutrients to the soil. #PermaculturePrinciples #permaculturegarden #permaculture #permacultura ]

Our collective was honored to support the Lenape Nation as we recognize the land we work with was originally cultivated and cared for by their ancestors!

Earlier in the season when asked what they wanted/needed all they requested was some of a three sisters harvest and dried springtime mullein leaves!

(Happy to report we were able to provide both and more!)

[Image Description: A picture from the “Pennsylvania” chapter Lenape Nation Harvest Gathering featuring Mark Goff (Lokota Nation) on the left, Allie (one of Emergent Abundance’s founding members and the one who drove our harvest to this event) and Chuck Gentlemoon DeMund (Lenape) all smiling with corn husks in hand!]

Wishing I could magically go back to the beginning of this month before the first frost, but I guess there’s always next year!
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Don’t get me wrong, there are still potatoes to be dug up, winter crops and covered salad greens still growing but I miss these raspberries and the strawberries even more…the asparagus still green and soft in my fingers, they’ll all be back in spring.
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Ah, time, what a magical thing.
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[Video Description: a sped up version of walking through The garden showing first the raspberry plants in their late season prime, the asparagus patch and the second strawberry patch hugged by a few pink and white snapdragons]

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