Neighborhood Gardens Trust

We're LIVE at the Concert Garden!

We're thrilled to co-host the Concert Garden Ribbon Cutting with Friends of The Concert Garden! Watch the ceremony LIVE on Facebook, Saturday, June 12 at 10am.

We're so grateful to be a recipient of the PECO Green Region Grant! This support will help us preserve and improve 2 food producing community gardens in West Philly, Viola Street Community Garden and Aspen Farms. Thank you! PECO & Natural Lands

Join us for a fun weekend event! Check out our May newsletter for garden updates, workshops, and how you can grab some tools to spruce up your garden this season - https://mailchi.mp/33527/emeraldstreetcommunityfarm-5101968

Thank you Grid Magazine, Billy Brown & Summer Winter Community Garden for this fun experience during the City Nature Challenge! We always love exploring our gardens to see what we can find. Watch this cool video as Billy Brown and our executive director, Jenny Greenberg search for biodiversity.

Monday, May 17, join our PHS friends for its Build a Bed Workshop! Participants will do just that: garner all the knowledge of tool safety and the skills to build raised garden beds with the help of Hajjah Glover, of Glover Gardens. Along the way, you'll form a better understanding of the history of the raised garden bed and its benefits. Click the link below to register!

Don't miss this great workshop on Saturday, May 15! Learn about how you can introduce farm-fresh produce in your kitchen regularly through a CSA (community supported agriculture) share. Join PHS and Dirtbaby Farm in experimenting with different food preservation techniques -- from drying herbs to meal-prepping practices and more. Members of community gardens can access this program for free by emailing [email protected].

On May 15, join our friends at PHS for a workshop on introducing farm-fresh produce in your kitchen and learn some techniques for food preservation. Click the link in the post below to register!

This Saturday, join us to catalog biodiversity at the Summer Winter Community Garden for the Philly City Nature Challenge!

It’s Earth Month and we’re proud to announce the permanent preservation of the Emerald Street Community Farm. Securing and protecting the land for this East Kensington communal growing space took five years and the efforts of many, from the grassroots to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Learn more about this project in our April newsletter, as well as register to join us on Saturday for the City Nature Challenge.- https://mailchi.mp/00ec5ef181e5/emeraldstreetcommunityfarm

Let's explore together! Join us on Saturday, May 1 at Summer Winter Community Garden as we participate the Philadelphia City Nature Challenge. We'll take pictures of all the beautiful things we find and share them using the iNaturalist.org app. Click below to register today!

We're celebrating #EarthDay honoring and recognizing Community Garden Leaders for their stewardship and service! We want to send a special thank you to Katherine Gilmore Richardson, Councilmember At-Large ... Mark Squilla Councilmember, 1st District and Jamie Gauthier Councilmember, 3rd District for highlighting the invaluable resources community gardens provide like the Holly Street Neighbors Community Garden and the Growing Home Gardens, and the gardeners who make it all happen. Community gardens address challenges by creating safe, community-driven green spaces where residents can grow fresh, nutritious food, gather with neighbors, and partake in physical activity and skill building. We're proud to be working in partnership to permanently protect and support these important community spaces. @phsgardening @seamaac Click the link to read the full resolution. bit.ly/3dHx3WJ credits: @stanleyphoto (first image) and Holly Street Neighbors Community Garden (second image)

This is really a preserved and dedicated space for our rich, diverse neighborhood to come together, grow food that people need to feed their families. We are so proud to be a partner in protecting and supporting the Growing Home Gardens with Seamaac, PHS : Pennsylvania Horticultural Society https://cbsloc.al/3ebUfeL

We’re halfway through our Dig Deeper Challenge and just $6,672 away from our goal to raise $10,000 by October 28. With so many unknowns, one thing is certain: Community gardens are more essential than ever, but their access to land must be protected. Donate to the Dig Deeper Challenge and double your impact today. Through a challenge grant from a generous NGT donor, 100% of your donation through this website will be matched dollar for dollar https://charity.gofundme.com//cam/the-dig-deeper-challenge

The Wiota Street Garden has been a source of fresh produce and green space in Powelton Village since 1986. Every summer, the garden's weekly farm stand provides affordably-priced vegetables in one of the city's most barren food deserts. Wiota Street Garden also makes weekly donations to the Red Cross House and to the Food Pantry, which runs out of Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral. Join the Dig Deeper Challenge to support the Wiota Street Garden and many others https://charity.gofundme.com//cam/the-dig-deeper-challenge Images courtesy The Wiota Street Garden Facebook

Save Philly’s essential gardens! Rapid real estate development poses an existential threat to many of Philadelphia’s precious community-managed green spaces, where residents work together to build social connections, clean and cool the urban environment, and grow bountiful fresh vegetables for their families and neighbors. Donate to the Dig Deeper Challenge and double your impact today. Please help NGT meet our goal to raise $10,000 by October 28. Through a challenge grant from a generous NGT donor, 100% of your donation through this website will be matched dollar for dollar https://charity.gofundme.com//cam/the-dig-deeper-challenge Photos by Rob Cardillo

The Holly Street Neighbors Community Garden is a living memorial to honor its founder Winnie Harris. These gardeners are committed to driving change that leads to greener, better educated communities, free of gun violence. This garden will be protected by the donations from the Dig Deeper Challenge. Double your impact today with a dollar for dollar matched donation https://charity.gofundme.com//cam/the-dig-deeper-challenge Photos courtesy Holly Street Neighbors Community Garden's Facebook

More photos from the Growing Home Gardens groundbreaking. We’re honored to be a part of this great project.

We are so grateful to receive a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to preserve the Emerald Street Community Farm. Congratulations to all the grant recipients! We're honored to be in the company of so many organizations preserving community gardens and green spaces in Pennsylvania. Photo by Rob Cardillo. See all the grant recipients at the PennLive.com link below.... https://www.pennlive.com//land-projects-save-13300-acres-a

Seamaac, Inc., Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, PHS : Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and NGT celebrated the groundbreaking for renovations to the Growing Home Garden in South Philadelphia. The Growing Home Garden serves 150 refugee and immigrant gardeners from Southeast Asia. A special thank you to Councilmember Mark Squilla and Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler and Senator Larry Farnese for making this project possible. Renovations are expected to be completed by the early spring of 2021.

Join the Dig Deeper Challenge and help NGT meet our goal to raise $10,000 by October 28. With your help, we can preserve at least six more community gardens in 2021, including gardens like Holly Street Neighbors Community Garden, The Wiota Street Garden, Viola Street Community Garden, and Summer Winter Community Garden, that have been serving West Philadelphia’s Powelton and Parkside neighborhoods for more than 30 years. Through a challenge grant from a generous NGT donor, 100% of your donation through this website will be matched dollar for dollar https://charity.gofundme.com//cam/the-dig-deeper-challenge

Be counted! Complete the 2020 Census now. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Census may stop counting residences as early as tomorrow, October 15. It’s easy and only takes a few minutes. Click here now:

Thank you Sprouts Farmers Market for the $5,000 neighborhood grant to support children’s play as part of the Concert Garden renovation. We at NGT and the Friends of The Concert Garden are so grateful! Photo by Chris Kendig Photography.

At NGT, we know the importance of protecting and supporting community gardens in Philadelphia, especially in low income communities of color to help address equitable access to high quality green spaces. We strongly endorse the concept of a National Urban Green Space Initiative, in an effort to create a more just and equitable America. Read the Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed by Jonathan Kaledin, former regional counsel of The Nature Conservancy and former general counsel of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, here.

Happy Spooky Season from all of us at Neighborhood Gardens Trust and the Spooky Garden.

This year we have found community, support and the opportunity to support others in so many spaces. Last weekend the building heroes at Tiny WPA worked all day ...at Holly Street Neighbors Community Garden to build a picnic table, sturdy planters, a step for our entrance and repair some fencing. We so appreciate the support! If you are looking for a volunteer opportunity and would like to pitch in, Tiny WPA and Holly St Garden will be working from 1-6pm on Wednesdays at 321 Holly St. Join us! See more