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In this section, we’ll be sharing information and links to material we hope will compliment your Greensgrow experience.  Please feel free to share with us anything you would like to see added to this page as it grows and evolves.

Videos

Links

Food Saving Techniques

Healthy Living

Gardening Resources

Great Organizations

Recommended Reading

  • “Hope’s Edge”  - Frances Moore Lappe
  • “Food Not Lawns”  - Heather Flores
  • “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” – Michael Pollan
  • “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”  - Barbara Kingsolver
  • “What to Eat”  - Marion Nestle
  • “Nourishing Traditions”  - Sally Fallon
  • “Wild Fermentation”  - Sandor Katz
  • “Food and Healing”  - Annemarie Colbin

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There are so many great causes to support right in our back yard.
And the one at the top of our list is....

The I Do Foundation

With the I Do Foundation, choose to support one of their existing charitable partners or suggest your own. It's easy to raise donations for your favorite charity. Click here for more details.

Other great things to support...

Philadelphia Brewing Co - This our our new beer ... At Philadelphia Brewing Co we take pride in our brews, our people, and our community. One person could never do everything that it takes to get beer into your glass. And it may sound obvious, but we won't brew anything that we wouldn't drink ourselves - and you won't catch us drinking anything called "Ultra" unless it's a literal name meaning more flavor, more hops, more malt, more carbs. That's because we are Brewers; proud brewers of fine hand crafted Ales from our historic brewery building in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Misty Broook Farm - Barre MA. 15 milking cows, 40 young stock and beef calves, two Morgan horses, a small swine herd, 60 chickens, a flock of ducks, a few sheep and 10 fat lambs. Click here to learn more.

Idamaes Brucherie - On the corner of Norris and Tulip in Fishtown Philadelphia, PA 19125 (www.idamaesbruncherie.com)

Community Supported Agriculture - For more on CSA's in general, visit the Robin Van En CSA Center at Wilson College. (www.csacenter.org)

Slow Down!…Join Slow Food…Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic organization that supports a biodiverse, sustainable food supply, local producers, heritage foodways and rediscovery of the pleasures of the table. To learn more about or join the Slow Food Movement log onto www.slowfoodphiladelphia.org or www.slowfoodusa.org

Support regional PA agriculture - “Buy Fresh Buy Local” www.buylocalpa.org or www.pda.state.pa.us to find a list of farms, farm stands and U-Pick farms throughout PA. Visit www.localharvest.org/csa for CSA's throughout PA. Also visit Rodale at www.newfarm.org

Get involved in Philadelphia’s future – Time is running out – We need Tax Reform Now! www.philadelphiaforward.org

Help homeless animals in Philadelphia – The Animal Alliance www.animalalliancepa.org

Boost the City’s economy – keep your hard earned dollars here www.phlmade.com

Grow stuff without dirt - The Schundler Company has a web site (www.schundler.com/links-hydro.htm) that has multiple links on hydroponics issues and articles.

Go out to dinner once in awhile - Django, White Dog, Fork, Standard Tap, Little Fish, Rose Tattoo, or Beau Monde...

Mill Creek Urban Farm - the Mill Creek Farm is a collectively run urban education farm that utilizes vacant land to improve local access to nutritious foods and to promote sustainable resource use by growing and distributing produce and by demonstrating ecological methods of living (www.millcreekurbanfarm.org)

JustGive.com - JustGive is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect people with the charities and causes they care about and to increase overall giving. (www.justgive.org)

The Urban Tree Connection is a nonprofit organization that engages children and adults from low-income neighborhoods in community-based, urban-greening projects. For information about volunteer opportunities please contact Ryan Spilman

Fair Food, a project of the White Dog Café Foundation, is dedicated to bringing locally grown food into the Philadelphia marketplace and promoting a humane, sustainable agriculture for the Greater Philadelphia region.  For information about volunteer opportunities at the Fair Food Farmstand, please contact Emily.

RESPG - You Have a Vision… Maybe it’s a long-neglected brownfields site that could be a thriving retail center. An ecologically compromised industrial property with office park potential. Or, perhaps simply an unneeded piece of real estate with unwanted environmental issues. The point is, you see things that others don’t. So do we.…

We Bring It into Focus... REPSG sees the potential in plain. The extraordinary in ordinary. The opportunity in crisis. And, we have the experience, contacts, resources and a proven business approach to see every property, problem and project for what it really is—a business opportunity waiting to happen.

Visit REPSG to learn how their Straight Line Environmental Solutions can help you contain risk, clear obstacles and create opportunity.

What a great story of perserverance...

When Brendan Holmes and Katia Clemmer started farming three years ago they had education, experience and not much else—a wheelbarrow, a pitchfork and a pickup truck. Surely they had no idea how their own determination and resilience would be put to the test in the course of living out the dream of many young-and-educated agrarian-hopefuls. Read more...

Interested in getting involved?

Click here for more info...