First Presbyterian will meet at Urban Tree Connection’s 5417 Pearl Street Community Garden.  We’ll work with Mike Jones, Urban Tree’s Community Land Steward. We will work until 3 PM. 

First Church has a long history of supporting UTC, both financially through our Missions budget and literally “on the ground” at their Community Gardens and Farm. Urban Tree provides food to the Haddington neighborhood in West Philadelphia.

If you’re interested in participating, please email Karl Miller (or by text at 610-864-2340).

First Presbyterian will meet at Urban Tree Connection’s 5417 Pearl Street Community Garden.  We’ll work with Mike Jones, Urban Tree’s Community Land Steward. We will work until 3 PM. 

First Church has a long history of supporting UTC, both financially through our Missions budget and literally “on the ground” at their Community Gardens and Farm. Urban Tree provides food to the Haddington neighborhood in West Philadelphia.

If you’re interested in participating, please email Karl Miller (or by text at 610-864-2340).

First Presbyterian will meet at Urban Tree Connection’s 5417 Pearl Street* Community Garden.  We’ll work with Mike Jones, Urban Tree’s Community Land Steward. We will work until 2:30 PM. 

First Church has a long history of supporting UTC, both financially through our Missions budget and literally “on the ground” at their Community Gardens and Farm. Urban Tree provides food to the Haddington neighborhood in West Philadelphia.

For further information please email Karl Miller (or by text at 610-864-2340).

*An easy way to get from Center City to 5417 Pearl Street is to take the Market-Frankford EL Westbound to 56th Street and walk north on 56th Street to Vine and east 1 ½ blocks on Vine.

We will return to UTC on Saturday, September 25 to help with the harvesting of their crop, which feeds local residents in need through neighborhood food banks. In 2020, Urban Tree farms and gardens provided 5760 pounds of food to the neighborhood. If you’re interested in volunteering, please contact Karl Miller (karl.miller@fpcphila.org) or Jen Johnson (jen.johnson@fpcphila.org).

Participants are asked to dress comfortably, bring water along with the completed CDC FACILITIES COVID-19 screening form. (If the temperature is over 90 degrees or raining with thunder/ lightning, the event will be rescheduled.)

The Urban Tree Connection (UTC) is a 501(c)(3) community-based organization, whose mission is to build a neighborhood rooted food and land system through community leadership development and land-based strategies in West Philadelphia. Over the last two decades, UTC has partnered with residents of West Philadelphia's Haddington neighborhood to develop and sustain community-driven greening and gardening projects. Their network of garden and farm sites are spaces for communal growing, gathering and education that fosters deep community engagement and leadership development of residents all ages, to build healthy sustainable community.

Members of First Church are invited to help at one of UTC’s Community Gardens, 5417 Pearl Street, West Philadelphia on Saturday, August 7 at 11 AM.   We will be hosted by Mike Jones, a CCP graduate and UTC’s Community Land Steward.  Participants are asked to dress comfortably, bring water along with the completed CDC FACILITIES COVID-19 screening form. (If the temperature is over 90 degrees or raining with thunder/ lightning, the event will be rescheduled.)

Email Karl Miller (or text 610-864-2340) for more information and to volunteer!

First Presbyterian Church has supported this organization through its Mission Committee for a number of years.  Many of us have enjoyed volunteering at their Neighborhood Foods Farm or in one of their 27 Community Gardens and Pocket Parks.

The Urban Tree Connection (UTC) is a 501(c)(3) community-based organization, whose mission is to build a neighborhood rooted food and land system through community leadership development and land-based strategies in West Philadelphia.  In 2009, a group of people in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood had a vision: In an abandoned lot littered with toxic waste, car parts and other trash, they saw a lush garden that could help sustain the area residents.

Over the last two decades, UTC has partnered with residents of West Philadelphia's Haddington neighborhood to develop and sustain community-driven greening and gardening projects. Their network of garden and farm sites are spaces for communal growing, gathering and education that fosters deep community engagement and leadership development of residents all ages, to build healthy sustainable community.

Are you interested in gardening and helping those who live in a food desert provide for themselves?  If so please join our group as we clear fields for cultivation in the Haddington section of Philadelphia. We will meet at the Memorial garden 536 North 56th Street about one mile west of the Philadelphia Zoo on Saturday May 11th from 10:30-2:30.

For more information contact Bruce Rapsher .