The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group is meeting again this October around the theme of Cultivating A Transformative Food System. Registration is open this July!
Find out more here.
Join us on October 25th, as we demand community control for our gardens as sources of food, agency and care. Gathering around City Hall, we are taking to the streets with our demands, to protect our gardens facing the threat of sheriff sale and outside development. People power will make this movement dance!
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The Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners Conference is an annual conference dedicated to creating networks of community support in Black leadership, land justice, food sovereignty and communal well being.
They are welcoming workshop proposals until August 21st! Click here to apply.
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On October 25th, we are invoking demands for Community Control of Land in Philadelphia. Come join us this Monday for our second action planning meeting, to fine tune the details and walk in solidarity.
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Join us tonight at Repair the World: Philly, to plan our action for October 25th. Tonight will be a chance to brainstorm together and create an agenda that puts our plans into reality. We are working together towards just land distribution in Philadelphia. NOW is the time to mobilize!
Want to learn more about community gardening and farming on vacant land in Philadelphia? The Public Interest Law Center's Garden Justice Legal Initiative and Soil Generation invite you to come discuss legal land access and preservation for gardens, farms, and other community-managed open spaces. This FREE program is open to everyone, including current gardeners looking to maintain community spaces and also new gardeners looking to create space.
The Neighborhood Gardens Trust, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the Land Bank will also be available during this event to discuss options and answer questions. To make this program useful for you, bring property addresses and all your questions.
This Vacant Land 215 session takes place at #PHSFarmForTheCity, located at Thomas Paine Plaza along North Broad Street (between JFK Boulevard and Arch Street). Check out the Farm's full September event schedule here: phsonline.org/programs/farm-for-the-city/events
Come together at Farm for the City (Thomas Paine Plaza), to build resources for the futures of our lands. The Threatened Garden series intends to put the legal, political, and people power in the hands of Black and Brown communities of Philadelphia, especially those facing land loss.
Come out for an evening of dialogue, workshopping, and communal knowledge sharing!
A collaborative training workshop for organizers, creatives, permaculture course graduates, and community leaders, looking to gain skills in regenerative social building.
*POCs get priority seating*
Join us for a day of delicious food, art, and fun, right on the land at Mill Creek Urban Farm. We will be raising funds for our latest training program, along side some incredible people!
Rain Date is August 26th, 10am-2pm.
As part of their Summer Shtetl Skills Workshop, the Jewish Farmschool is providing a walking tour through East Fairmount Park to inspire learning through taste, touch, talk and tinctures!
Find out more information here.
Rain Date is Thurs, 7/19
