Program
A Forbidden Fruit
A creative wellness group that puts on free events, a community garden project called the Giving Garden, and a yearly one-day festival of art, food, and movement.
- Free
- Kids OK
Last seen active: September 2026
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Nonprofit 路 West Park
A New Dawn
A Mill Creek-Parkside nonprofit that turns vacant lots into gardens, greenhouses and gathering places. It grows food through farming and hydroponics and runs wellness and hands-on STEAM skill building for youth, families and seniors.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 East Kensington
Arcadia Commons
Neighbors who look after three green spaces in East Kensington so people have places to gather: Kern Park, The Huntingdon Emerald and the Emerald Wildflower Garden.
Last seen active: June 2024
Garden 路 Upper North
Awbury Arboretum Food Forest Work Days
Volunteers who help look after the food forest at Awbury Arboretum in Germantown. Planting and orchard care work days are listed through the Philadelphia Orchard Project, and Awbury's volunteer office takes questions by email.
- Free
- Newcomers welcome
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Central
Bel Arbor Community Garden
Neighbors who share a food-growing garden on Kimball Street, started in 1995 and preserved by the Neighborhood Gardens Trust in 1999. Members compost, grow vegetables and flowers, and look after a beehive.
Last active date not known yet
Garden 路 Central
Bodine Street Garden
Neighbors who share a community garden on South 3rd Street in Queen Village. The garden has no open plots, so new people join a long waiting list.
Last seen active: February 2011
Garden 路 Lower North
Brewerytown Garden
Neighbors who share the work of a community garden at Master Street and North 27th Street. Members tend plots and help with the season's work, and the garden also runs free family programs on Sundays in summer.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Central
Capitolo Community Garden
A community garden in Capitolo Playground at Tenth and Federal Streets, founded in 2009. It has 54 in-ground plots and three raised beds, and members share the garden's upkeep.
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden
Chester Avenue Community Garden
A shared neighborhood garden on Chester Avenue, run by its gardeners. Gardeners work together on monthly work days and on volunteer teams for compost, herbs, mowing, orchard, flowers and more. Neighbors can email the garden to ask about joining.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden
Cobbs Creek Park Community Garden
Cobbs Creek Park Community Garden is a City registered community garden in Philadelphia. Neighbors garden side by side, and the garden is the place to ask about joining.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden
Collins Smith Barrick Play Garden
A neighborhood garden on East Hagert Street, founded in 2001, where neighbors grow food and play. Neighbors can email the garden or use its sign-up form to ask about joining.
Last active date not known yet
Program
Community Gardens Network (Farm Philly)
The city's network of 19 community gardens on park land, where about 500 residents grow food together. Farm Philly provides land access, compost, mulch, supplies, workshops, and training.
Last active date not known yet
Garden 路 West Park
Community Health and Gardens
A Philadelphia health group that runs a community garden where neighbors grow vegetables, with a focus on healthy eating and exercise.
Last seen active: June 2024
Garden 路 Central
Community Learning Farm at 8th and Poplar
A food farm on Eighth Street beside East Poplar Playground, run by the Federation of Neighborhood Centers. It grows fresh produce and shares it with neighborhoods around the city.
Last seen active: October 2026
Program 路 Upper Far Northeast
Community Schools @George Washington High School
George Washington High School is one of the City's Community Schools. Volunteers help with after school and family programs, and open shifts are posted on the City's volunteer portal.
- Clearances needed
- Background check
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Upper Far Northeast
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Volunteers help care for the ten acre grounds of a spiritual center in Northeast Philadelphia, from the vegetable garden and bees to the labyrinth and visitor welcome.
- Kids OK
Last seen active: July 2026
Garden
Crease Street Garden
Neighbors who look after the Crease Street Garden in Fishtown. They tend the beds, hold work days announced to a mailing list, and let groups book the space for gatherings.
- Free
Last seen active: March 2025
Nonprofit 路 Upper North
DITO Inc
A community development group in West Oak Lane that grows food on a former vacant lot and teaches urban farming to youth and families. It also runs a weekly food bank and wellness courses.
Last active date not known yet
Garden
Earth's Keepers Orchard at Kingsessing Recreation Center
An orchard at the Kingsessing Recreation Center in West Philadelphia, cared for by the group Earth's Keepers. The group runs a weekly farmstand at the site that neighbors can visit.
Last active date not known yet
Neighborhood or civic group 路 River Wards
East Kensington Neighbors Association
East Kensington neighbors who meet once a month to share concerns and run committees for cleanups, greening, youth programs, historic preservation, and zoning. A member can join a committee or simply come to the monthly meeting.
- Free
- Newcomers welcome
- Online OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Neighborhood or civic group 路 South
East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association (EPX)
Neighbors in the East Passyunk area who follow zoning and development plans and meet monthly to talk them over. The group also runs volunteer cleanups, tree care and a community garden, and hosts neighborhood events such as a fall festival.
- Online OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden
Fair Amount Food Forest
A community food forest in Fairmount Park where neighbors plant, tend, and harvest together, with plant walks, cooking and preserving workshops, and a farmers market.
- Free
- Newcomers welcome
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Olney
Feliz Filadelfia
A community group in Olney that uses sports to help kids grow. It runs seasonal baseball, softball, soccer, flag football, and basketball teams, plus a garden club and community center activities.
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Upper Northwest
Fernhill Food Forest
A community-led food forest in Fernhill Park in Southwest Germantown. Neighbors plant and tend fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs, and vegetables on public land, and neighbors are invited to eat what grows.
- Newcomers welcome
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Upper North
Fisher Park Roots Garden
Fisher Park Roots Garden is a City-registered community garden in Fisher Park, in the Upper North part of the city, with 19 raised beds. Contact the garden to ask about plots or workdays.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Central
FNC Community Learning Farm at 8th and Poplar
FNC Community Learning Farm at 8th and Poplar is a City registered community garden in the Central part of the city. Neighbors garden side by side, and the garden is the place to ask about joining.
Last seen active: October 2026
Friends group 路 Central
Friends of Bainbridge Green
Neighbors who look after Bainbridge Green in Queen Village with the Queen Village Neighbors Association. They weed, plant, sweep, and paint the green, often on City Love Your Park days.
- Free
Last seen active: October 2026
Friends group 路 Upper Northwest
Friends of Cloverly Park
Neighbors who care for Cloverly Park in Northwest Philadelphia. They hold Love Your Park work days in May and November, look after the park's trees, and work to protect the Old Tennis Court Farm.
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Friends group 路 South
Friends of Dickinson Square Park
Neighbors who care for John Dickinson Square Park in South Philadelphia. A Tree Team waters young trees each week, a gardening committee tends the park, and a parents' committee works with families.
- Newcomers welcome
Last seen active: October 2026
Friends group 路 Central
Friends of Manton Street Park & Community Garden
A Friends group for Manton Street Park and its community garden at 405 Manton St. Its only web page is on Facebook, and we could not confirm recent activity from a public page.
Last seen active: October 2026
Friends group 路 Upper Northwest
Friends of Vernon Park
Neighbors in Germantown who clean, green, and look after Vernon Park. They also run park programs and hold open meetings each month.
- Online OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Neighborhood or civic group 路 University Southwest
Garden Court Community Association
A registered community association for the Garden Court neighborhood in West Philadelphia, active since the mid-1950s on neighborhood problems, housing and local gardens. Its news includes park cleanups, a school garden donation, and plant and vegetable giveaways.
- Low cost
Last seen active: October 2026
Program 路 Upper Northwest
Germantown Community Fridge
Neighbors who keep two free community fridges stocked in Germantown. They take donations, make sandwiches, clean the fridges, and tend a small garden in warm months.
- Free
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit
Get Fresh Daily
A Philadelphia group that sells locally grown produce through Black Farmers Markets and weekly produce boxes. It also keeps a garden open in West Philadelphia and runs wellness events and workshops.
- Low cost
Last seen active: July 2026
Nonprofit 路 North Delaware
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation
Glen Foerd is a historic riverfront estate at 5001 Grant Avenue, cared for by a nonprofit conservation corporation with Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. Neighbors can walk the free grounds, visit the mansion free on weekend afternoons, and join storytimes, workshops, yoga, tours and free open boating days.
- Free
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 North
Glenwood Green Acres
A large food-growing garden on Glenwood Avenue with 102 individual plots on about 3.67 acres, founded in 1983 and preserved in 1997. Neighbors can email the garden to ask about joining.
Last active date not known yet
Neighborhood or civic group 路 Upper Northwest
GREAT (Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together)
A Germantown neighborhood group that shares seeds and tools, runs a mutual aid fund and time bank, and works on housing and emergency preparedness so current residents can stay.
Last seen active: August 2024
Garden 路 South
Growing Home Garden
Two food-growing gardens with individual plots on Mercy Street and Emily Street in South Philadelphia, run with SEAMAAC, which works with immigrant and refugee communities. The gardens were set up to help newcomers grow food from their own cultures.
Last active date not known yet
Garden 路 South
Growing Homes Community Garden
A community garden on Emily Street in South Philadelphia, organized by SEAMAAC with partners. It was set up to help newly arrived refugees and newcomers eat well, grow familiar crops and settle into the neighborhood.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Upper Northwest
Hansberry Garden and Nature Center
A community garden and environmental education center in Southwest Germantown that grows food and runs classes and public events for children and adults.
- Low cost
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Lower North
Historic Fair Hill
A North Philadelphia community organization that cares for the Fair Hill burial ground, a historic Quaker site that holds the graves of abolitionists and early women's rights leaders. It also runs reading, garden, and tree-planting programs and community events.
- Low cost
- Newcomers welcome
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Strawberry Mansion
Historic Strawberry Mansion Orchard
The orchard and kitchen garden at Historic Strawberry Mansion in East Fairmount Park, planted with the Philadelphia Orchard Project. Community members are welcome to pick fruit from the orchard trees, and the mansion hosts workshops on using the fruit.
- Low cost
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden
Horticulture Center Food Forest
An educational food forest at the Fairmount Park Horticulture Center, built by Parks and Recreation, Penn State Master Gardeners, and the Orchard Project. Volunteers weed and care for the plantings at work days.
- Free
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 North
Hunting Park Community Garden
A neighborhood garden on the City's list of registered community gardens in the North part of the city, Hunting Park Community Garden is tended by neighbors who share the work and the harvest.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 North
Hunting Park Community Garden & Orchard
A community garden and orchard in Hunting Park, listed by Parks and Recreation as a Friends group. We could not find its own website or any recent news.
Last seen active: October 2026
Friends group 路 North
Hunting Park United
A neighborhood group in Hunting Park that cleans and greens the park, plants trees and gardens, and runs family fitness days and senior programs.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 University Southwest
Kingsessing Community Garden
A neighborhood garden on the City's list of registered community gardens in the University Southwest part of the city, Kingsessing Community Garden is tended by neighbors who share the work and the harvest.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Central
Manton Street Park Community Garden
Manton Street Park Community Garden is a registered community garden in the South part of the city, listed by the City of Philadelphia. Neighbors grow food and flowers together; contact the garden to ask about a plot or a workday.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Mantua
Mantua Worldwide Community
Neighbors in Mantua who clean up streets, plant gardens and teach young people how things grow. The group also hosts arts and health events.
- Kids OK
Last seen active: February 2026
Garden 路 West
Mill Creek Urban Farm
An educational urban farm at 49th and Brown Streets in West Philadelphia, founded in 2005 and run as a program of the nonprofit A Little Taste of Everything. It grows and distributes produce and runs farm-based learning for all ages.
Last active date not known yet
Network or meetup 路 Central
Neighborhood Gardens Trust
A Philadelphia group that supports community gardens. It keeps a garden map so residents can find a garden to join, though many gardens have waiting lists.
Last active date not known yet
Garden 路 Lower North
The Neighbors Garden at Hatfield House
A neighbor garden at Hatfield House in Philadelphia. We have not yet found a public page with current activities.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Lower North
The Neighbors Garden at Hatfield House
The Neighbors Garden at Hatfield House is a registered community garden in the Lower North part of the city, listed by the City of Philadelphia. Neighbors grow food and flowers together; contact the garden to ask about a plot or a workday.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 River Wards
New Kensington CDC
New Kensington CDC is a community-based nonprofit that helps neighbors with housing counseling and home repairs, small business help, and health and gardening programs. It also works with the City on local priorities and is a registered community organization for zoning talks.
Last seen active: October 2026
Program 路 Lower Northwest
Nice Roots Farm (SHARE Food Program)
The farm of SHARE Food Program, which grows fresh fruit and vegetables for donation to the community, to SHARE-affiliated pantries, and to mutual aid networks. Volunteers can sign up on the program's page.
- Free
- Kids OK
Last seen active: August 2026
Garden 路 Lower North
North Philly Peace Park
A neighborhood-run ecology campus in North and West Philadelphia with free urban farming, education and wellness programs. It also runs a weekly market for local sellers of natural products.
- Free
Last active date not known yet
Neighborhood or civic group 路 Central
Northern Liberties Neighbors Association
Neighbors who look after Liberty Lands, the community-owned park, and keep watch on zoning and building plans in Northern Liberties. They also run clean-ups, park music and movie nights, and walk-in office hours.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Upper Northwest
Old Tennis Court Farm
A community garden in Germantown on Wissahickon Avenue where members grow food on their own plots and share about 8 hours a season of upkeep.
- Kids OK
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
Original American Foundation
A Philadelphia nonprofit that aims to help low-income American Indian and people of color households become more self-sufficient, with gardening and home repair help.
Last active date not known yet
Garden 路 Upper Northwest
Pastorius Community Gardens
A community garden on East Pastorius Street, founded in 2015 and preserved in 2019, with its own website and email. Neighbors can email the garden to ask about joining.
Last active date not known yet
Club 路 North
Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild
Beekeepers and bee lovers who promote sustainable urban beekeeping through monthly meetings, a shared apiary, and a yearly honey festival.
- Low cost
- Online OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Program 路 Online
Philadelphia Master Gardeners
A volunteer program run through Penn State Extension. Trained volunteers answer gardening questions, give talks, and care for public demonstration gardens around Philadelphia.
- Ages 18 and up
- Online OK
Last seen active: June 2025
Nonprofit
Philly Unknown Project
A grassroots nonprofit that does hand to hand outreach on the street in Kensington and wider Philadelphia. It hands out bags with snacks, socks, hygiene supplies and resource information, and it runs the Ruth Street Garden.
- Free
Last seen active: November 2025
Garden 路 Upper Northwest
Pleasant Playground Community Garden
A community garden on the grounds of Pleasant Playground in East Mt. Airy, started by neighbors who wanted healthy food and a shared green space.
- Low cost
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Lower Far Northeast
Poquessing Creek Park Garden
Poquessing Creek Park Garden is a City registered community garden in the Lower Far Northeast part of the city. Neighbors garden side by side, and the garden is the place to ask about joining.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit
Project Always Receiving
A Philadelphia group that works on vacant lots to create shared community space, and runs family events such as a back to school giveaway, a health and wellness fair and open mic nights.
Last seen active: August 2025
Friends group 路 Upper North
Roots Garden Friends Group
Neighbors who tend the Roots Garden, a community garden inside Fisher Park in Olney. Older sources describe residents nurturing it for decades, but we could not confirm what it does today.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Lower Northwest
Roxborough Manayunk Conservancy
Volunteers who look after more than 100 acres of neighborhood parks and trails across Roxborough and Manayunk, with weekly work sessions.
- Newcomers welcome
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 University Southwest
Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden
The farm at Bartram's Garden, a 50-acre public park in Southwest Philadelphia. Sankofa Community Farm grows food with an African Diaspora focus and invites volunteers to help with seasonal planting and outdoor work.
- Free
- Newcomers welcome
- Kids OK
- Ages 18 and up
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden
The Schuylkill Center Community Gardens
The Schuylkill Center Community Gardens is a City registered community garden in Philadelphia. Neighbors garden side by side, and the garden is the place to ask about joining.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Central
Schuylkill River Park Community Garden
Neighbors who garden side by side near 25th and Spruce, with about 70 plots, a shared flower border by the park, and some of the harvest given to local food programs.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 South
SEAMAAC Growing Home Gardens
Two community gardens on Emily and Mercy Streets in South Philadelphia, run by SEAMAAC, an immigrant and refugee services nonprofit, with the Neighborhood Gardens Trust. Mostly immigrant and refugee gardeners grow vegetables and familiar foods here. We could not confirm current activity.
Last seen active: October 2026
Network or meetup
Soil Generation
A collective of Black and Brown women and gender-expansive people who work on access to land, growing food, and healing, with campaigns on urban farming and climate justice.
Last active date not known yet
Garden 路 South
South Philadelphia Older Adult Center Garden
South Philadelphia Older Adult Center Garden is a City registered community garden in the South part of the city. Neighbors garden side by side, and the garden is the place to ask about joining.
Last seen active: October 2026
Friends group 路 Central
South Philly Older Adult Center (SPOAC) Community Garden
A community garden on the City's Park Friends list, at 1430 E Passyunk Ave. We could not find a web page or other current source for it.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Central
South Street Community Garden
One of the Washington Square West Civic Association's community gardens, at 839 South St. Plots go to people whose primary home is in the neighborhood, and the waitlist can be very long.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 Queen Village
Southwark/Queen Village Community Garden
A food-producing community garden on Christian Street with individual plots, founded in 1976 and protected as a park in 1983. Members tend their own plots and share the orchard, the pollinator garden and the compost bins.
- Low cost
Last active date not known yet
Garden 路 Central
The Spring Gardens
A volunteer-run community garden in the Spring Garden neighborhood. Member families grow food and flowers, some of which goes to City Harvest, and the garden hosts cooking workshops, gardening classes, and open community events.
Last seen active: October 2026
Program 路 Upper North
St. Raymonds House Work Day
A community work day at St. Raymonds House on Forrest Avenue, listed on the Philadelphia Orchard Project's events page. Volunteers register for the date on that page.
- Free
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 University Southwest
Summer-Winter Community Garden
A volunteer-run community garden in Powelton Village, near Drexel, where members grow food on their own plots and share the work of the common areas. The garden calls itself one of the oldest community gardens in Philadelphia.
Last active date not known yet
Neighborhood or civic group 路 North Delaware
Tacony Civic Association
Tacony Civic Association is a neighborhood membership group in Tacony. It holds general membership meetings several times a year and lists local projects that neighbors can join, such as the Disston Park and Community Garden, a yard sale, and Hometown Hero banners. The City also registers it as a community organization to be consulted on nearby zoning and development.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden 路 North Delaware
Tacony Community Garden at Disston Park
A neighborhood garden on the City's list of registered community gardens in the North Delaware part of the city, Tacony Community Garden at Disston Park is tended by neighbors who share the work and the harvest.
Last seen active: October 2026
Program 路 University Southwest
Tiny Farm Wagon
A mobile art project that builds gardens, runs workshops and holds art events. It works as an art classroom, greenhouse and gallery on wheels, and it cooks plant-based food in a cob oven.
Last active date not known yet
Program
TreePhilly yard tree giveaways
The City's free yard tree giveaway program gives trees to Philadelphia residents to plant at home, and it needs volunteers to help run its giveaway events.
- Free
Last seen active: September 2026
Nonprofit 路 Lower North
Urban Creators
A North Philadelphia nonprofit working on food, art and learning. It runs Life Do Grow, an urban farm with a public park, an outdoor classroom and an arts space, and it has hosted programs there since 2011.
- Free
Last seen active: October 2024
Nonprofit 路 North
Vacetime Foundation
A nonprofit that turns vacant lots and shared spaces into green space, and gives young people hands-on training in landscaping and environmental work. Its three program areas are Youth Development, Creative Environment Learning, and Community Greening.
- Newcomers welcome
- Kids OK
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Lower North
The Village of Arts and Humanities
A community arts and youth organization on Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia. It runs youth arts and farm education, a media lab, and neighborhood projects with young people and local residents.
- Kids OK
Last seen active: March 2025
Neighborhood or civic group 路 Washington Square West
Washington Square West Civic Association
The civic association for the Washington Square West neighborhood. It runs three community gardens and co-hosts Open Garden Days with Farm Philly, the city's gardening program.
Last seen active: October 2026
Garden
We3 Gardens
A neighborhood garden project that creates shared spaces for growing, learning and gathering in the city. It started with raised beds, flowers, herbs and places to sit.
Last active date not known yet
Neighborhood or civic group 路 Upper Northwest
West Central Germantown Neighbors
West Central Germantown Neighbors is a neighborhood group that holds community meetings and potlucks, helps with the Tulpehocken Station Garden, and follows zoning and development in the area.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit
Wyck Historic House and Garden
Wyck is a National Historic Landmark house, garden and farm in Germantown, run by the Wyck Association. Visitors can walk the grounds for free during posted hours, take a house tour, or join the Home Farm Club to help grow food.
- Free
- Newcomers welcome
- Kids OK
Last seen active: October 2026
Includes: community gardens, urban farms and farm stands, greening vacant lots, orchards and fruit trees, bees and pollinators, garden clubs and plant swaps.