In our first year, we have formed partnerships with colleagues and friends who are vital to our growth and success.
Thank You!
Public Health Management Corporation
Interim House, Inc.
CHANCES
City Harvest Growers Alliance
Unitarian Society of Germantown
Seeds for Learning
Young Heroes
Womens Christian Alliance
Parkway Northwest H.S. for Peace & Justice
Resources for Human Development
Project H.O.M.E.
Eagleville Hospital
DiMona Greening
Contact:
g4gPH.volunteer
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Is your company seeking a community partner offering a wide range of hands-on green volunteer opportunities?
Keep an eye out for our Kickstarter Campaign!
With major projects in Philadelphia and Montgomery County, we welcome youth volunteers.
We participate in Work Ready offering summer internships.
Young Heroes, Parkway Northwest High School for Peace & Social Justice, Women's Christian Alliance, and Neighborhood Interfaith Movement are just a few of our community partners.
Learn new life skills, meet great folks, make a difference in oyur community, be a vital part of Green Philadelphia. every day of the year!
Our latest project is creating a Therapeutic Garden and cut flower farm operation at Eaglesville Hospital.
With several formal garden beds to maintain in a quartely rotation, this setting is perfect for a Master Gardener in the making.
We are gradually replacing ornamentals with a mix medicinal herbs and botanicals.
Work alongside hospital staff helping residents to develop new life skills in this innovative, hands-on program.
Tasks include greenhouse propogation, planting beds, maintenance and community education projects.
Green Sanctuary Earth Institute
of Pennsylvania (more info)
Founded in 2010, GSEIPA's mission: "Redistributing health and wealth through fresh food access..."
We are growers, food educators, food brokers and distributors dedicated to food justice, healthy communities, social and biological diversity, and sustainable agriculture.
The spokesperson for Yale's Sustainable Food Project explains intensive growing four seasons a year. This is exactly what we do here in the Philadelphia region.
Why seek out locally grown produce?
Dollars spent on locally grown foods remain in our communities. Local dollars are circulated many hundreds of times, resulting in a strong local economy. Locally owned businesses contribute to fundamental services; recycling, curbside trash pick-up, and snow removal.
Spending your dollars on locally grown food products is voting with your wallet. Buying safe, non-toxic, organic and/or chemical free food creates a greater demand for quality, nutritious food.
You are in charge of what you eat and the food you serve!
Choose wisely.
Recently, a group of high school students held a hands-on, in-the-field science class in one of our growing sites. Their study unit was on organic food, farm workers and the concept of food justice.
By the end of their on-site class, students understood that the term "organic food" is a food industry term.
Composted soil, ample water, sunshine, and pollination. This is all nature requires to make abundant, delicious, and non-toxic food when food is grown on a small scale.
The most amazing fact for these young consumers? That 70 percent of all antibiotics manufactured in the United States ends up in animal feed and in our food chain, whether we need these antibiotics or not. The result? Bacteria becoming antibiotic -resistant before pharmaceutical companies can develop the next generation of drugs.
Do you know what is in the food you're eating?
Our CSA program for social service agencies is called Menu for the Future Collaboration . We assist agencies serving one or more meals a day on site in buying the best quality produce available in winter months, and, in springtime, setting up on-site vegetable gardens where possible. We provide local fresh produce and are a pick up point for several hormone-free, antibiotic-free, grass-fed, free range poultry and meat buying clubs. Other activities include nutrition education, cooking demos, and feasts in the field, shared meals made from seasonal farm bounty.
We have CSA shares available! Our individual CSA is limited to 30 families/individuals. Priced at $125 each, our shares can be divided between members. We hope this accommodates seniors and single people whose need for weekly produce is limited. We are also an approved vendor for senior farm market vouchers issued by the Pennsylvnia state Dept. of Agriculture.
Growing for Good: Philadelphia sources local/regional organic, and/or chemical-free and sustainably produced food for colleges, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, and corporate cafeterias. We work with kitchen coordinators and food service companies, like Sodexho, partners in creating sustainable vegetable gardens on hospital grounds, college campuses, and other institutional settings.
We are part of a network of urban farmers, regional organic farms and farming cooperatives. Why not try sustainable seafood? Or consider joining one of our direct-from-your farmer buying clubs. Be confident the meat you consume contains no antibiotics or hormones, and livestock are raised humanely using free-range practices.
Pricing and orders available by phone contact only. Email confirmations of order and delivery details.
Contact: Anaiis Salles; Institutional Sales & Agency CSAs; 267-325-6869; anaiis.gseipa_gmail.com
Shorty McFarmer's TIPS, TASKS, & HOW TO
In my 20s, I dreamt of having a small vegetable patch and a culinary-themed bed & breakfast. At that time, I owned a 10-acre farm and a 1770s farmhouse. I had a clear vision of the life I wanted to live, but a serious llness forced me to postpone this dream.
It is unbelievably thrilling to pick up the dangling thread of this kind of life dream and weave into a present where I am healthy, and happy. There are a few dings in the fender but I'm still able to lift
50-pound boxes of produce.
My first tip? Follow your yes. Simply let the nos of your life fall away. Make a list of what would make you truly, deeply, madly happy. Identify the first simple step you can take to make one item on your list become a reality. Then take this step and follow the path that will soon arise under your feet.
Interested in supporting urban beekeeping?
Beekeeping
Our CSA Model Program
Growing for Good: Philadelphia is the urban farm operation of its non-profit parent, Green Sanctuary Earth Institute of Pennsylvania.
In 2010, collaborating with Public Health Management Corporation and Interim House, Inc., we i mplemented our CSA model known: Menu for the Future Collaboration. We design and maintain start-up organic fruit and vegetable gardens for social service agencies. Our agency members prepare and serve daily, in-house meals to communities in need.
Our urban farm sites are situated in food dessert neighborhoods. The vegetable garden at Interim House, Inc. is part of a network of urban farm sponsored by the City Harvest Growers Alliance , a program sponsored by The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
Organic Culinary Herbs & Botanicals
Therapeutic Gardens
The tranquility of a nurturing garden space can be therapeutic. The physical exertion of gardening stills the mind.
GSEIP project consultants design, manage and implement programs based on the therapeutic gardening concept.
Our partnership with Eagleville Hospital in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania brings creativity, beauty, tranquility and new life skills to both patients and staff.
Culinary herbs, medicinal botanicals and landscaping plants are cultivated in the greenhouse and grown to order.
The cut flower operation planned for the grounds of Eagleville Hospital will be a source bouquets for hospice organizations as well as the general Montgomery County community.
Some of the organic herbs we can supply to the restaurant trade: cilantro, dill, basil, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
We source herbs and botanicals for Dimona Greening Company, makers of organic, non-toxic, Kosher cleaning products. All Dimona products are based on the Moringa plant. We supply supplemental herbs: peppermint, lavender, sage and thyme.
Want to be part of our "grow to order" client base? Contact: gseipa_gmail.com
This is the style of hive box I chose. Purchased from Bee Thinking, the hive arrived almost completely assembled.
This top bar hive rests on four legs more than six inches off the ground. Mce and skunk concerns are minimized, as is the issue of lifting full, heavy supers of honey.
Bees build their own wax comb in top bar hives. The colony decides what "bee space" it desires, and humans follow the bees' lead. A very good idea! Frames of brood and honey comb are both easier to manipulate and manage.
Lorenzo L. Langstroth invented the box hive. Langstroth, born in Philadelphia, is known as the father of modern beekeeping.
Box hives have myriad downsides, in my view, not the least of which is imposing artificial frames/foundation on your girls. While there is no proof, top bar hive beekeepers believe their hives are healthier in general, require less messing about, and honey bees are better able to defend their hives from mites and other pests who take advantage of man-made foundation frame bee space.
I prefer to keep things as natural as possible: better for the bees, better for the environment, and possibly better honey and more of it over a longer period of time with less annual bee die off.
Launching New NW Community Food Bank in June!
Growing for Good: Philadelphia, Green Sanctuary Earth Institute of Pennsylvania, Resources for Human Development and the Unitarian Society of Germantown have partnered to create a new community food bank. RHD is introducing its Equal Dollars to the mix; bring in $25 worth of manufacturer's coupons, enroll as a member Equal Dollars and receive $50 Equal Dollars, a barter currency. Along with a small selection of canned goods, fresh veggies will be donated by U.S. Food, City Harverst Growers and other NW community gardeners.
Coupons: food products, health & beauty, kids stuff, pet supplies, and coupons for auto and home services.
Press Release
It's official! I'm a Farmer!
In May of 201, a field representative from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture certified Green Sanctuary Earth Institute Ex. Director and founder of Growing for Good: Philadelphia, Anaiis Salles, as a farmer along with two farm market locations: 1552 Wadsworth Avenue in East Mt. Airy and at Berachah Baptist Church, located on the corner of Limekiln & Chelten, in West Oak Lane. Project Manager at Interim House, Inc., is Andrea Vettori. Our team of Farmers include....SHAHEED, HANIF, HARU, AND TYRANE...
Organic produce available now! Call 267-325-6869 to arrange a pick up: kale, collards, arugula, mixed greens, radishes, and spinach
Press release
Our Partnership with DiMona Greening
Organic, non-toxic herbs and botanicals are an integral part of DiMona Greening's household cleaning supplies and health and beauty products. The key ingredient comes from the Moringa plant .
When you order online, use this discount code: 1004
G lobal Stories about small scale farming
India: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/250-000-farmers-have-committed-suicide-and-chemical-intensive-methods-have-devastated-the-land-now-india-s-poorest-women-are-growing
Contact us
Growing for Good:Philadelphia
Community Food Justice Center & farmers market at our new location.
Coming this summer!
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267-325-6869
www.growingforgoodphilly.com
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