Interview. Eileen Gallagher (Norris Square Neighborhood Project)
Subject
Gallagher, Eileen
Brown, Iris
Philadelphia Green (Program)
Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Greene Countrie Towne
Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
Las Parcelas Community Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Norris Square Neighborhood Project (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Description
Interview with Eileen Gallagher, former Associate Director of Community Gardens for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) who worked with Norris Square gardeners. This interview focuses on Gallagher's upbringing learning to garden and becoming a professional horticulturist who started working at PHS to preserve community space.
The interview covers Gallagher's work with community gardens in PHS Greene Countrie Townes, primarily focusing on Gallagher's work in the Norris Square neighborhood starting in 1988 with Grupo Motivos and the Norris Square Neighborhood Project. Gallagher discusses the official establishment of Las Parcelas and recognition of Norris Square as a Greene Countrie Towne in 1993. Related, the interview covers Gallagher's professional and friendly partnership with community organizer and gardener Iris Brown, including a trip to Cuba to study agriculture.
Other topics discussed include the development of the City Harvest and Keystone Gardens programs and the relationship between Gallagher's work and the Neighborhood Gardens Trust (formerly known as the Neighborhood Gardens Association).
The interview covers Gallagher's work with community gardens in PHS Greene Countrie Townes, primarily focusing on Gallagher's work in the Norris Square neighborhood starting in 1988 with Grupo Motivos and the Norris Square Neighborhood Project. Gallagher discusses the official establishment of Las Parcelas and recognition of Norris Square as a Greene Countrie Towne in 1993. Related, the interview covers Gallagher's professional and friendly partnership with community organizer and gardener Iris Brown, including a trip to Cuba to study agriculture.
Other topics discussed include the development of the City Harvest and Keystone Gardens programs and the relationship between Gallagher's work and the Neighborhood Gardens Trust (formerly known as the Neighborhood Gardens Association).
Date
2022
Interviewer
Makuc, Joseph
Interviewee
Gallagher, Eileen
Collection
Citation
“Interview. Eileen Gallagher (Norris Square Neighborhood Project),” Philadelphia Community Gardens Memory Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://phillycommunitygardensmemory.omeka.net/items/show/77.
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