Among many losses of 2020, Philadelphia lost Libby Goldstein, a leader in the movement to reclaim vacant land for community gardening, and in the fight to preserve that land for the neighbors who cultivate it.…
We asked NGT community gardeners from around the city to share how they are keeping the gardening spirit alive as temperatures drop and daylight fades earlier. Learn how they’re preparing their gardens for the winter…
Uniting a Community for Food Justice Dr. Beverly Giles Carter’s journey to the movement for food justice and the creation of the Five Loaves Two Fish Community Garden began around 2009. A West Philadelphia…
Abandoned Lot to Beloved Space Situated in the heart of East Kensington is a grassy 2,045-square-foot plot of land sown by seeds of love. Over a decade ago, the space was nearly unrecognizable. Its grass…
Preserving Common Ground on Mercy Street Neighborhood Gardens Trust (NGT) started the new year by accomplishing one of the trickiest garden protection projects that we have encountered to-date. Once a complicated patchwork of vacant land…
A Garden Not Just For Those That Garden Looking out of the window of her East Germantown apartment at a vacant lot in 2015, Vita Litvak started to imagine what it would be like if…
Growing Home Garden, a Place to Put Down New Roots In 2010, the Nationalities Services Center worked with Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), and Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation to establish the Growing Home Garden…
New Future for Old Tennis Court Farm When you ask most gardeners what they are excited about growing, you won’t typically hear the answer “community.” For Mark Kearney and Ellen Wert, however, that’s what their…
Saving a Garden, Healing a Neighborhood Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, once proclaimed, “The world will be saved by beauty.” Mary Beth Appel and Johanna Berrigan practice this philosophy every day…
A Spooktacular Preservation This Halloween Northern Liberties neighbors are celebrating the permanent protection of one of the most imaginative and unique green spaces in Philadelphia–The Spooky Garden. Imagine a long slice of green space extending…