FOOD MOXIE

Thank you to Jessica, Sara, Nataliya and Lee and to Elissa at Drexel Med for this year's support of Garden Club. We are so grateful for your positive energy and time.

Do you dig what you eat? Help Food Moxie share that passion for growing and scratch cooking by donating on-line at http://www.foodmoxie.org/waystogive/ or at the Weavers Way registers this Giving Tuesday.

Program for Future Environmental Scientists and Stewards offers high school students citywide an immersive, hands-on experience to the natural and built environment in watershed stewardship, advocacy and environmental justice. Includes a stipend! http://ow.ly/f3Za50ECVPz

Enjoy your weekend! We are still looking for cooperators to help drive for our next distribution. Shifts are listed at the WW Member Center.

Excited to be back at Hope Kitchen and Garden Club! We can once again dig what we eat (and plant flowers for our pollinator friends who help make sure we have crops to eat)!

Check out the great new wash and prep stations created by Dorene and Brandon for upcoming Hope Kitchen and Garden Club programs today. Welcome back Hope Kitchen and Garden Club! we are so excited for spring with you.

Garden Club pressed some flowers last week. Tomorrow Garden Club will celebrate the harvest season with some pumpkin decorating and apple tasting. How do you like to celebrate fall?

Brandon is showing off some of the garlic harvested out of Hope Garden and cured just in time to add to our favorite fall dishes!

We are getting ready for Halloween at Hope Garden and the spiders are too! They make great garden beneficial insects.

Food Moxie will be distributing free boxes of produce in the MLK High school parking lot this morning (Thursday, 10/22), from 9am until supplies run out.

Calling all Weavers Way working member Cooperators. We are looking for help with delivery shifts posted for this Wednesday from 2-6pm to get actvity kits and produce to our students. Visit the Member Center to sign up.

Thank you all for making the 15th annual Urban Farm Bike Ride a great success with six different ride groups across seven urban farm and garden sites. And thanks to Press and Release for beautiful shirts and the Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia and Awbury Arboretum for their support. Photo by Martha Madigan Studios.

Thank you to Graham Robb, SAG Drivers and Ride Marshalls, Food Moxie staff and board and the amazing growers of Awbury Community Garden, Germantown Kitchen Garden, Henry Got Crops, Hope Garden, Pleasant Playground Community Garden, Schuylkill Environmental Education Center Community Garden, Wyck House Historic Garden and all the amazing ride participants for a beautiful 15th annual Urban Farm Bike Ride. Special thanks to our sponsors, Weavers Way Cooperative Association and Dietz and Watson and to Martha Madigan Studios for this beautiful photo of the tour at Henry Got Crops.

Thank you GreenTree Community Health Foundation for your continued support of our community food security work!

Families made beautiful beautiful bouquets in Garden Club last week with Dorene, Brandon, Carla and Shaniya. Look for more sunny day activities tomorrow in the garden!

Its Giving Twosday Weavers Way Co-op ! On the second Tuesday of every other month, our generous partners at Weavers Way Co-op give shoppers the opportunity to make a donation in support of Food Moxie programs when you shop. Donate today to support healthy cooking & eating!

Food Moxie will be distributing free boxes of produce in the MLK High school parking lot tomorrow morning (Thursday, 10/7), from 9am until supplies run out.

Garden Club children (and some of their parents) tasted blackberries and hardy kiwis, a smaller kiwi berry that can be grown in Philadelphia this week. Have you ever tasted hardy kiwi berries?

Garden Club tasted paw paws grown at Weavers Way Farm this past week. Paw paws are native trees to Pennsylvania. Do you have a favorite variety of paw paws?

This year we are joined by our community partner the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia for a staggered start Urban Farm Bike Ride focused in Northwest Philadelphia. Sign-up by 10/9 for the early bird rate of $30/person.