Connecting with our Agricultural Heritage

The Montclair History Center is proud to partner with the Montclair Community Farms Coalition. Montclair Community Farms is a local non-profit. Their mission is to serve as a local hands-on resource that engages and educates the community through urban farming, affordable food access and healthy living.  At the heart of Montclair Community Farms is its Coalition, partners, and community volunteers. 

Working together, we maintain a thriving microfarm on our Orange Road site, complete with chickens. The Montclair Community Farms is generously funded through the USDA and Partners for Health. MCF works in partnership with Montclair Department of Health and Human Services, Montclair History Center, Montclair State University, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex County, Essex 4-H and Master Gardeners, and HOMECorp. Using modern farming techniques, we connect others with our agricultural heritage and our ancestors who spent their days working their farms. This farm helps us recall a period in our town’s history when farms were the main “industry” and lived close to the land.

Learn more about Montclair Community Farms and the coalition at www.montclaircommunityfarms.org.