Greensgrow Farms

Beautiful Calla Lillies just arrived! Come in to grab some spring beauty! #spring #greensgrow #bloom #newbeginnings

Get your greens in the ground! Lettuce, collard greens, broccoli, kale, brussle sprouts, tatsoi, spinach, onions Thursday-Sunday 10am-4pm

New varieties this weekend! Perennials, edibles, cool weather seedlings, lots of soil, houseplants, seeds, planters and tools! It’s spring! We are here, Thursday - Sundays 10-4

An indoor oasis that you can take home with you! Come visit us tomorrow, Friday or this weekend at the farm to be nourished by the greenhouse, see our friend Milkshake and take home some new plants!! Follow out stories to see more of what landed on site this week!

Look who’s home!

Exciting news! You can now pick up True Love Seeds, @trueloveseeds, in person, on the weekends at our farm in Kensington. Get your order in through their website -www.trueloveseeds.com- by 4pm on Thursdays to pick it up that following Saturday or Sunday! This is a huge perk, to have access to the full True Love catalogue at this time of year without having to wait on shipping times. ... Plus you support all the fine people that keep these important seed varieties available to everyone, distributing far and wide. We are so lucky we get to share our time and space with them. #seedkeeping #localpickup

This year we received funding from Penn Treaty SSDto complete the installation of a native plant demonstration garden along our perimeter. Many of our native species of insects, reptiles and birds have been suffering a pandemic for decades. Some critters are endangered due to loss of native varieties that provide habitat and food source. We are all in this together! When we look to heal the world around us, we heal ourselves. All places from our stoop planters to suburban y...ards can serve as habitat and food. Together as more people choose native plants we become a network of better habitat across the city and the region. Greensgrow is committed to being a resource for education and native plant supply. This spring we worked with Good Host Plants (straight species selection) and Alexandra Grisanti (rendering and design) to realize a beautiful planting plan. In 2021 we will continue to increase our selection of locally propagated natives and educational signage. We plan to begin installing this project in the coming weeks and are looking for volunteers who want to assist with the building, prep work and planting. Sign-up for our volunteer newsletter to receive updates on opportunities to come learn and lend a hand

Did you hear the music last weekend and want to come in for the concert? You can! But a ticket for October 24th!

Pumpkin Pop-Open tomorrow with fancy gourds, hand pumpkins, small carvers ... all pay-what-you-can! perennials still 25% off mums in bloom small selection of fall annuals for your window boxes

Vote today! If everyone here votes just once today you could help us win $15,000 to improve green space and food access in Philadelphia! https://www.phillymag.com/health-hero-2020/

Vote for Meg today to help us win 15,000 Vote for Meg today on behalf of Ping Vote for Meg tomorrow (last day) on behalf of Milkshake Vote for Meg and also make sure to cast your vote this fall https://www.phillymag.com/health-hero-2020/ Once upon a time Ping gave me a hug around my leg, most mornings that I feed milkshake he comes barreling through my legs. Vote for me as a health hero because we are all connected through this beautiful ecosystem and we all need to come together to lift up the systems in our world that support our collective health. #greensgrow #urbanfarming #healthhero #phillymag

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Come pick out some pumpkins this weekend. Carving, fancy, blue doll, jack-be-little, caspirita, field day. Suggested pricing, pay what you can! This Saturday October 3rd | 10am -4pm ... at our Kensington location | 2501 East Cumberland Ave. See more

Hi Friends of The Farm: Meg here, writing to you directly. Greensgrow feels like this, at exactly this time of year, every year. This is my third fall on the farm (pic taken in 2018)- each one wildly different in approach, yet it’s the time that all living things feel like they have expended most of their stored energy. ... I read this article (slide 2) from the beginning of Greensgrow, two years into Mary’s original project where she mentions the resilience she develops lying in a ditch on this huge site by herself trying to fix a broken pump as it filled the ditch alongside her tears. I felt her every word, like I was inhabiting her skin. It’s the connection of land that I actually inhabit with her as it holds all the memories. The resilience she built is now the resilience I develop to lead this place forward. So many hands have worked this land and we have all laid in that ditch metaphorically at Greensgrow and cried. This place bestows great beauty, at the same time it is filled with losses. It’s the the lifecycle and it all hangs in balance. I stepped up to direct a vision forward at the beginning of 2019. The organization was handed to me in very fragile form. I bit my lip about the fragility and moved forward. I learned to plug all the holes quickly, but over the past two years I’ve really built a confidence in my own sense of leadership while navigating in the unknown, it’s like I had a practice year before the impacts of COVID-19. The decisions I made this year were enacted to preserve the health of our community, to keep staff safe and to ensure that the organization did not go under. Our approach to the fall and winter come through knowledge I have accumulated in deep study of our finances and the patterns of our financial history. Greensgrow will be here in our future. Over the next few months we have a super skeleton staff, but we stay committed to a couple of pop-ups and I will tell you a little more about myself alongside my vision to keep you all connected to the ways we are evolving. Follow our stories to learn more of the raw reality of the farm, as we continue to move through the unknown of 2020. Stay Well. Meg

Still a handful of tickets left for this live performance put on by @theheadandthehand and @phillygoatproject If you miss the tickets, stay tuned we are planning a little distanced goat parade for after the performance

This spring our farm was delayed due to short staffing, but despite delays we have harvested 1245 lbs of food on our land alone! With sponsorship from Penn Treaty Special Services we are able to again support local farmers and our community by bringing in fall fruit! This week we have local purple potatoes, Concord grapes, apples, butternut squash and some PUMPKINS!

The Philadelphia Argentine Tango School is hosting an outdoor, socially distanced concert at Greensgrow on September 26th. Buy a ticket to come hear live Argentinian folk music in the garden. Come enjoy being outdoor, in real life and feeling the vibration of music in community! https://www.philadelphiatangoschool.com/socially-distanced-

We are honored to be a part of this year’s B. PHL Innovation Fest! The Philadelphia-based festival is totally free and virtual this year, featuring three days of talks, workshops, meet ups, and curated experiences. Join Meg on tomorrow September 15th at 5pm as she presents a Greening for Good lightning talk alongside leaders from Philadelphia Horticultural Society and Overbrook Environmental Education Center. Register today at bphlfest.com. #BPHLFest @bphlfest