farms

Grow Your Own

advocacy | alternative | busway | colleges & universities | community | education | energy | farm markets | farms

Establish significant community gardens where neighbors can come together to learn, teach, and share resources to ultimately increase their personal growing capacity and opportunity for community building and engagement

Terroir du Pittsburgh

advocacy | agriculture | careers | community | environment | farms | flowers | french | gardens | history | image

The Pgh Terroir Project is aimed at exploring the environmental qualities of Pgh that make it unique.

Hop-Skip Farm Kids

advocacy | alternative | education | farms | gardens | media | programming | schools | tv | youth

Half hour children's TV show about urban farms based and taped in Pgh shown nationally. Coordinated with local organizations, schools and the Organization of Farming Urbanites, to start farming and educational facilities

Entreperennial

advocacy | buses | city property | community | education | entrepreneurial | environment | farms | food | gardens

Turn vacant land around schools into working community farms/provide entrepreneurial opportunities for youth to grow businesses

Lots of Food

advocacy | alternative | café | community | environment | farms | gardens | health | neighborhoods | organic

Collect abandoned lots and turn them into sustainable urban gardens that provide an alternative to store-bought produce and act as a community connection point

Engage Pittsburgh is a program of The Sprout Fund, a project of the Tides Center (PA), and is supported by lead contributions from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the Richard King Mellon Foundation.

Additional support for Engage Pittsburgh is provided in part by the Alcoa Foundation, Eden Hall Foundation, Grable Foundation, the Elsie Hillman Foundation, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and the Pittsburgh Foundation.

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