Frankford Avenue Garden

03/09/2022

Development continues to surround the Garden.

Philadelphia YIMBY takes a detailed look at the six-story, 453-unit apartment building proposed at 2621-67 Frankford Avenue in East Kensington.

04/22/2020

Happy Earth Day!

04/06/2020

Gardening is an essential, life sustaining activity! On Thursday we received our first delivery of plant starts - collards, kale, onions, strawberries, lettuce, cabbage, and more from PHS : Pennsylvania Horticultural Society City Harvest. It's already in the ground...

04/01/2020

We'll be around this weekend (weather permitting) checking on the peas and greens and pulling the first of many many pesky weeds.

Philadelphia has given community gardens and urban farms the green light to operate during the COVID-19 shutdown with new safety and social distancing measures in place.

03/11/2020

Our garden could be next for preservation!

A housing development planned for a gentrifying area was hit with a firestorm of resistance from neighbors who will lose land that they use as gardens.

02/19/2020

We've been there. The garden used to be SIX lots when we started back in 2004 (or 1996 if you go by Peter's story...) Now there are THREE lots. One lot is under active development (after being sold to Joe B. for $1 around 2008 or so.) Two more lots have a giant fence around it after we were "noticed to vacate" by current owners NKCDC, who then notified us of their intent to "disinvest" which means sell it. Right now those two parcels are in limbo BUT we are hoping NKCDC allows Circle of Hope - 2007 Frankford Ave. to continue stewarding their land as a community garden in 2020 and for many years to come. More news to come as we get ready for the 2020 season. Peas will be going in the ground BEFORE St Patrick's Day and Nick Fury will be leading the usual Sunday Morning volunteer times from 10am-Noon starting April 1st!

Of the 2,314 properties the city has sold for $1 since 2000, according to an Inquirer analysis, about 800 have been since resold for $54 million.

02/05/2020

The Frankford Ave Garden has a whole section dedicated to butterflies and native perennials! You can too...

New research finds that America's urban residential land could support a lot of the extra milkweed that monarch butterflies rely on.

01/02/2020

The big building behind The Garden just went up for sale for $950,000. They used an old picture taken from inside the Garden, with Billy's shack and his American Flag in clear view.