Community Shared Agriculture

This Spring, join us as we launch the newly revamped Grounded in Philly website, a one-stop online resource ecosystem for the urban agriculture and open space community in Philadelphia. With 40,000 vacant lots in Philadelphia, we aspire to give communities...

Join Erdy McHenry Architecture for our annual DesignPhiladelphia celebration—featuring Philly Microgreens and Dickson Despommier, father of the Vertical Farm movement! As the world population is set to approach 10 billion by 2050, humanity reckons with an agricultural infrastructure that is...

Philadelphia City Repair Project hosts the first annual Village Building Convergence (VBC)! Help participate in Community Building and Creative Placemaking across Philadelphia by Day. Project Installations are free to attend, kid friendly, and designed by the community they will serve!...

CSA season is coming! CSAs (Community Shared Agriculture) are fantastic. You get weeks of fresh, local veggies and barely have to hit the grocery store if you play your cards right. However, there are some challenges with the CSA season....

Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative (LFFC) is looking for volunteers to host weekly Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) deliveries of fresh, organic produce to neighborhoods in the Philadelphia area. Members purchase a subscription to receive a box of fresh, high quality produce from a local farm on a weekly basis. Hosts can help support local, sustainable family farmers and widening access to local products directly to the Philadelphia community. (Find out more, after the jump!)