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…
Diverting the Bulldozer: How the Peace Garden Was Saved