1500 Grays Ferry Avenue Garden
Subject
Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
1500 Grays Ferry Avenue Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania State University. Cooperative Extension. Demonstration Gardens
Philadelphia Green (Program)
Description
"1500 Grays Ferry Avenue was begun by the Urban Gardening Program in 1977 as the Southwest Philadelphia Demonstration Garden. It's one of many vegetable and flower gardens located on the "West Bank" of the Schuylkill River, where people garden on the railroad right-of-way, in empty lots, and on top of old building foundations. ..." -- City Green: The Urban Gardening Program in Philadelphia, 1979
Date
[1986-1987]
Coverage
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Collection
Citation
“1500 Grays Ferry Avenue Garden,” Philadelphia Community Gardens Memory Collection, accessed May 5, 2024, https://phillycommunitygardensmemory.omeka.net/items/show/129.
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