Mill Creek Farm

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Work Days In July!

JULY WORKDAYS:
1st, Wed.: 9-12pm
4th, Saturday: 9-12pm
15th, Wed.: 9-12pm
29th, Wed.: 9-12pm

The Mill Creek Mission ...

The Mill Creek Farm is a collectively run urban education farm that utilizes vacant land to improve local access to nutritious foods and to promote sustainable resource use by growing and distributing produce and by demonstrating ecological methods of living.

2007 Annual
Report Available NOW
Check out our annual report. Click here to open the PDF document.

NEEDED: A battery powered weedwacker. If you have one, or know where we can get one, please email us. Also looking for bee keeping equipment and protective clothing, and a water pump for our grey water system.

You can now support us with an online donation!
Click the button below to donate now. You'll go to a secure donation page where you'll enter the amount of your donation. All major credit cards can be used, in addition to a Pay Pal account.

Mill Creek Farm Featured in Grid Magazine Issue
Click here to check out a really great article on how Mill Creek sets the standard for sustainability in farming in Philadelphia.

More Press: The little half-acre that could
Urban minifarms, like Mill Creek, are keeping many Philadelphians from going hungry. By Dan Geringer in the Daily News.
Check it out!

Also in the Daily News:
The Earth to Philly blog, with a posting about Mill Creek titled "Can Okra Save The City?" MORE >

Interview with Mill Creek's Johanna Rosen
Check out an audio clip of an interview with Johanna Rosen by WXPN's Michaela Majoun. MORE >

Students Study Us ...
Yes, we're such an interesting model of urban farming and education that a number of students have done research papers on Mill Creek Farm. If you're interested, check them out ...

You can now support us with an online donation
Click the button below to donate now. You'll go to a secure donation page where you'll enter the amount of your donation. All major credit cards can be used, in addition to a Pay Pal account.

Thanks to everyone who help to make our 2nd Annual Benefit Party a great success!

Action Alert! Help Us Put Mill Creek
Farm In A Land Trust

Dear Friends of Mill Creek Farm,

We are writing to ask for 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.

To submit your comments online, use this form:

http://www.phila.gov/citycouncil/blackwell/feedback.html

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. If you send your comments by email and could send us a copy for our records, we'd appreciate it: millcreekfarm@resist.ca.

Please be sure to include your name and address or other contact information and mention if you are a constituent.

"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."

Urban farm tills the West Phila. fields
Kathy Wang, reporting for the University of Pennsylvania's Daily Pennsylvanian, gives a great overview of Mill Creek and its vision.
Read more.
Hear about us on Radio Times with Marty Moss Coane
On August 18, WHYY's Radio Times featured a segment on urban farming in Philadelphia. They gave us a shout-out. If you'd like to hear the program, go to the link below:

http://www.whyy.org/cgi-bin/newwebRTlookup.cgi
ATTRA News features Mill Creek
in special urban agriculture edition
ATTRA (The National Sustainable Agricultural Information Service) features urban farming in their August issue. You'll find lots of great stories and resources about urban farming there, including a listing for Mill Creek Farm. Click here to learn more.
Sweet on Bees: Why are bees in this
urban neighborhood thriving?
An August 12 column in the Philadelphia City Paper describes Mill Creek's bee keeping operation. Check it out.
A Great Story on Urban Farming in the Daily News: The Daily News did an extensive piece on urban farming in Philadelphia that included pictures of an interviews with farm managers Jo and Jade. Check it out!
Philadelphia Weekly Features Pictures & Quotes from Mill Creek. Check it out.
The City Paper Sends Out a Reporter to Work the Land: City Paper writer Sam Tremble volunteers at Mill Creek, then sits down to write about it. Check out the story >

Curator of Puppet Uprising pays tribute to Mill Creek in the City Paper. Check out the December 13th edition of Philadelphia City Paper's Culture Shock column.

Mill Creek mentioned in new In These Times article: In its August 24 article, "Farming the Concrete Jungle," In These Times authors explore the growth of urban farming across the country, and mention Mill Creek's work in Philadelphia. Check it out.

A wonderful profile in Culinate.Com: Culinate is a web site for people who care about where their food comes from and how it's produced. In a new article on the food and justice movement, they include a long feature on Mill Creek Urban Farm and it's mission to improve access to nutritious local food.
Check out the article now.

Going native--a fresh approach is growing locally: This Inquirer article by local food and farming reporter Harold Brubaker introduces the new farm manager at Weavers Way Co-op Farm, but also devotes a few paragraphs to the work of Mill Creek Farm.
Check out the article now.

Justice Talking program in February features Mill Creek: On February 12, Justice Talking--the NPR radio show based in Philadelphia--hosted a program on farming and farm subsidies. As part of their program, they took a tour of Mill Creek Urban Farm. That audio clip, and pictures of the farm are available on their web site.
Check out the web site now.

The plot thickens ... A wonderful story from Philadelphia Weekly (July 19, 2006) profiling a West Philly farm (guess who) that brings nutrition and environmentalism to the inner city.
Check out the article now.