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POP works with community-based groups and volunteers to plan and plant orchards filled with useful and edible plants. POP provides the plants, trees, and training. Community organizations own, maintain, and harvest the orchards, expanding community-based food production. Orchards are planted in formerly vacant lots, community gardens, schoolyards, and other spaces, almost exclusively in low-wealth neighborhoods where people lack access to fresh fruit. | POP works with community-based groups and volunteers to plan and plant orchards filled with useful and edible plants. POP provides the plants, trees, and training. Community organizations own, maintain, and harvest the orchards, expanding community-based food production. Orchards are planted in formerly vacant lots, community gardens, schoolyards, and other spaces, almost exclusively in low-wealth neighborhoods where people lack access to fresh fruit. | ||
[[Category:Is-Nonprofit_Organization]][[Category:Teaches-Gardening]][[Category:Issue-Environment]][[Category:Issue-Gardening]][[Category:Issue-Food]][[Category:Issue-Sustainability]][[Category:Issue-Wellness]][[Category:Issue-Hunger]][[Category:Is-Advocacy_Organization]] | === See also === | ||
[[Patch Adams Clinic At Philadelphia|Patch Adams Clinic at Philadelphia]] | |||
[[PhilaHealthia|PhilaHealthia]] | |||
[[Philadelphia Green Pages|Philadelphia Green Pages]] | |||
[[Green Jobs Philly|Green Jobs Philly]] | |||
[[Category:Is-Nonprofit_Organization]] [[Category:Teaches-Gardening]] [[Category:Issue-Environment]] [[Category:Issue-Gardening]] [[Category:Issue-Food]] [[Category:Issue-Sustainability]] [[Category:Issue-Wellness]] [[Category:Issue-Hunger]] [[Category:Is-Advocacy_Organization]] | |||
Revision as of 22:41, 1 May 2011
http://www.phillyorchards.org/
The Philadelphia Orchard Project plants orchards in the city of Philadelphia that grow healthy food, green spaces and community food security.
POP works with community-based groups and volunteers to plan and plant orchards filled with useful and edible plants. POP provides the plants, trees, and training. Community organizations own, maintain, and harvest the orchards, expanding community-based food production. Orchards are planted in formerly vacant lots, community gardens, schoolyards, and other spaces, almost exclusively in low-wealth neighborhoods where people lack access to fresh fruit.
See also
Patch Adams Clinic at Philadelphia PhilaHealthia Philadelphia Green Pages Green Jobs Philly