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Community Gardens & City Harvest

There are more than 400 community gardens in Philadelphia, each one an oasis. Besides being attractive, these serene spaces promote health and nutrition, improve local economies, and allow neighbors to come together for a common interest.

Community gardens provide produce to city dwellers, and PHS’s City Harvest project is a collaborative partnership that enables gardeners to share their bounty. Through City Harvest, inmates of the Philadelphia Prison System nurture vegetable seedlings that are grown to maturity at 30 participating community gardens.

The nonprofit group SHARE (Self Help and Resource Exchange) helps connect gardeners with local food cupboards for distribution of the produce, and the Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania provides nutrition workshops and recipes to food cupboard clients.

For the PHS Subject Guide on community gardening then click here.

For a sampling of community gardens that work with PHS, please see the map below.

Find a Community Garden Near You!

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Click here to learn about the Neighborhood Gardens Association / A Philadelphia Land Trust.