The Mill Creek Mission ...

The Mill Creek Farm is an educational urban farm dedicated to improving local access to fresh produce, building a healthy community and environment, and promoting a just and sustainable food system.

The Mill Creek Farm implements its mission through farm-based learning programs, by cultivating and distributing fresh produce, and by demonstrating ecological technologies and creative resource use to provide for basic needs.

We believe in food justice: that everyone has a right to affordable, healthy, quality, culturally appropriate food that is accessed in a way that is community-controlled, environmentally sustainable, and socially just.

At left: OKRA, a big seller.

MCF is committed to:

• Improving consumer access to nutritious foods and building food security;
• Developing a greater sense of community within the Mill Creek neighborhood;
• Educating local school groups and the greater Philadelphia community about urban agriculture, natural resource management and sustainable living;
• Managing stormwater run-off and utilizing rainwater as a resource for food production.

Our activities and educational programs

In addition to growing food for local distribution, MCF is an education center, giving tours to groups and hosting field trips and community skill-share workshops. The farm employs youth in a summer job training program.

The farm partners with the existing community garden to facilitate inter-generational exchange between school age groups and elders.

The farm's innovative toolshed demonstrates green building and reuse techniques including cob, solar electric, living roof, compost toilet, graywater collection, and found object mosaic (part of the mosaic is pictured above).

The farm will fuel its pickup truck, donated by SEPTA, with biodiesel / used vegetable oil.

Funding

MCF is an environmental education farm that as part of a not-for-profit supported by private donations and grants. Additionally, produce sales will partially defray operating costs for the farm project.

Past funding from: Chace Fund, Union Benevolent Association, Claneil Foundation, Allen Hilles Fund, Samuel S. Fels Foundation, Patricia Kind Family Foundation, Leo Model Foundation, Douty Foundation, Private donations

Donations

Donations are welcome and needed. Please make checks payable to "Mill Creek Farm/A Little Taste of Everything," and send them to Mill Creek Farm, 3451 Walnut Street, Franklin Building Annex, Suite P-117A,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205.