Mill Creek Farm

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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.

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.

Thanks to all of you who came to
our annual benefit party!
Click here to check out a photo gallery of pictures
from the party, on the Philadelphia Weekly web site.

Our 4th Growing Season Was A Big Success.
Help Us Make The 5th Season An Even Bigger Success. Donate Now.

Please help us reach our fundraising goal for the end of the year to ensure we can continue to provide access to fresh food and educational opportunities in 2010. Reflect on what a healthy community means to you, and consider giving to the Mill Creek farm today.

You can show your support by clicking on the button above, or you can send a check made out to "A Little Taste of Everything/Mill Creek Farm" to 3451 Walnut Street, Suite P-117A, Philadelphia, PA 19143. Your contribution is tax deductible to the fullest extend of the law.

SUPPORT MILL CREEK FARM
and BROWN STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN

For over 30 years, the Brown Street Community Garden has provided garden space for neighborhood residents in the Mill Creek neighborhood. Four years ago, the Mill Creek Farm began to provide healthy, affordable food and education to the same community. We think the Mill Creek Farm and Brown Street Community Garden should be preserved long-term as open space for growing food and education in the community. We need the support of our City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell to protect this important community resource. Click here to learn more about what you can do to help.

2009 SUMMER WORKSHOP SERIES
A partnership between Mill Creek Farm and Preston's Paradise
Click here to learn 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 ...

Blog Entry Features Mill Creek Farm
The Sustainable Communities Initiative blog features a recent post about Mill Creek. The blogger visited the farm and discovered that it was much more than a farm ... it was a sustainable design wonderland. Click here to view the blog.
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 >
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.