We need your help to ensure that we can continue our work. We are trying to get the land that the Mill Creek Farm maintains along with the adjacent community garden, which has been around for over 30 years, put in a land trust with the Neighborhood Gardens Association (NGA) to preserve it as open space. In order to do that, we are seeking the support of Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell to get the title transferred from the City of Philadelphia, which currently owns the property, to the NGA.

Please take a minute to send a message to Councilwoman Blackwell.
Submit your comments by email to: jannie.l.blackwell@phila.gov
If you prefer to type or handwrite a letter, we will gladly mail it for you. Please drop it off at the farm or contact us to pick it up. Please address it to:

The Honorable Jannie Blackwell
Philadelphia City Council
Room 408 City Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Below is some sample text, but your message is stronger if you personalize it so please edit this and include your personal comments about the food, your experience volunteering or visiting, or any other connection you have to the farm and what you value about it.  Please be sure to include your name and address or other contact information and mention if you are a constituent.  If you send your comments by email, please send us a copy for our records to millcreekfarm@resist.ca.  Thank you.
 
"Dear Councilwoman Blackwell,
I am writing to express my support of the Mill Creek Farm in West Philadelphia. The project is an important resource for healthy food as well as education in the community. I understand that there is an effort under way to preserve the land that the Mill Creek Farm maintains as well as the adjacent community garden as open space for food production and stormwater management through the Neighborhood Gardens Association. I hope that you will help support their important work by supporting the transfer of the title from the City to the land trust.
Thank you for your consideration."