The Community Learning Farm at 8th and Poplar supports our neighbors across Philadelphia in their efforts to grow their own food, access quality local produce at all price points, and engage mindfully with the natural environment. Through educational programming, our Wednesday farmers markets, our network of community gardeners, and our various community partnerships, 8th and Poplar endeavors to contribute to Philly farming futures within a just and grounded food system. We farm to honor our ancestral foodways, to connect others to their own farming legacies, and to support community access to the abundance and healing in the land.
Teens 4 Good Farms transitioned to FNC Community Learning Farms with a broader programming and community involvement to include all community members young and old. The Farms are malleable depending on the wants and needs of the people who are utilizing our spaces, whether they be places to hold cooking classes and field trips to spaces people can come and read and spend time outdoors somewhere green and beautiful.
Our Goals . . .
Our goal is to have our various Farm sites grow to become spaces that people come to learn together and teach each other about growing and cooking healthy food.
Our goal is to have our various Farm sites grow to become spaces that people come to learn together and teach each other about growing and cooking healthy food.
Our Vision . . .
We would like to focus on emphasizing the educational strengths of each space. The Lighthouse Farm is an exciting focus of this transition. They will become our permaculture orchard and perennial education space. The Lighthouse Farm is both shady and damp at spots, an environment that is perceived as problematic for growing and has dissuade many Philadelphia residents from embracing their own back yards as productive growing spaces. At the lighthouse we would like to demonstrate to people ways of growing that will embrace and remediate those spaces. We have been partnering with the Philadelphia Orchard Project to come up with a comprehensive plan for the space to be a productive farm that will act as an educational space demonstrating how to instill aspects of permaculture into a urban environment.
We would like to focus on emphasizing the educational strengths of each space. The Lighthouse Farm is an exciting focus of this transition. They will become our permaculture orchard and perennial education space. The Lighthouse Farm is both shady and damp at spots, an environment that is perceived as problematic for growing and has dissuade many Philadelphia residents from embracing their own back yards as productive growing spaces. At the lighthouse we would like to demonstrate to people ways of growing that will embrace and remediate those spaces. We have been partnering with the Philadelphia Orchard Project to come up with a comprehensive plan for the space to be a productive farm that will act as an educational space demonstrating how to instill aspects of permaculture into a urban environment.
History of Teens 4 Good
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or contact Director of Farm Education Programming, Adam Lauer
or contact Director of Farm Education Programming, Adam Lauer