Interview with Sally McCabe (Seedy Acres)

Philadelphia Green (Program)

Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History

Seedy Acres Community Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Neighborhood Gardens Trust (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

McCabe, Sally

Interview of Seedy Acres Community Garden founder, Sally McCabe, by Joseph Makuc in 2022. McCabe describes her childhood gardening experiences as well as her path to community garden activism and education. She traces the development of Seedy Acres and its impact on its Northern Liberties neighborhood in the early 1980s from a few parcels to cultivating 14 vacant lots at its height.

By the 1990s, the gardens were at risk due to increased development of the neighborhood and Seedy Acres gardeners with the aid of the Neighborhood Gardens Association fought to preserve the gardens through purchase and land donation (Seedy Acres was preserved in 2002).

2022

Philadelphia (Pa.)