It all started as a crazy idea...

On a chilly cloudy day in March 1997, Mary Seton Corboy and Tom Sereduk pushed back the broken gates to an abandoned lot in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. Without knowing it, they were firing the opening salvo in the urban agriculture movement.

When Mary and Tom went on a search for property on which to build an urban farm, old industrial land was what was available. A former glavanized steel plant to be exact.

A conventional farm seemed highly unlikely to spring from an industrial brownfield, so it was back to the drawing board where they re-visioned their urban farm employing hydroponic growing of lettuce. Surprising even themselves, it was a success.

In the years since the first cases of produce were delivered out of the back of the truck, Greensgrow Farm Inc has changed a great deal. Our willingness and ability to change, in fact, has been the root of our success.

Today Greensgrow stands as a testament to hard work and harder heads. What was once a dilapidated industrial site is today an active vibrant Farm Stand and Nursery.

When we first got started in you might have thought we were crazy. Now over a decade later, folks are calling us visionaries.

Well, we still think we're just crazy.