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| − | {{toplink|url=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Agricultural-Village-at-Awbury-Arboretum/465555926902703|name=facebook.com/pages/Agricultural-Village-at-Awbury-Arboretum/465555926902703}}[[File:AgriculturalVillageAtAwbury.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Greenhouses in the Agricultural Village at Awbury Arboretum.]]Features and Tenants of the Agricultural Village | + | {{toplink|url=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Agricultural-Village-at-Awbury-Arboretum/465555926902703|name=facebook.com/pages/Agricultural-Village-at-Awbury-Arboretum/465555926902703}}[[File:AgriculturalVillageAtAwbury.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Greenhouses in the Agricultural Village at Awbury Arboretum.]]''Features and Tenants of the Agricultural Village'' |
| − | Education Center Building | + | *Education Center Building. |
| − | Education Center
| + | *Pollinator Habitat. |
| − | Education Center
| + | *Community Garden. |
| − | | + | *Awbury Food Forest. |
| − | An educational facility, including a garden classroom and teaching kitchen, opened at the Agricultural Village in Spring 2013. Here we host educational programs, our Teen Leadership Corps, community events such as our yearly Harvest Festival, local homeschool groups, and more. When not in use for programming, the Education Building is available for rent.
| + | *Weavers Way Co-op's Mort Brooks Farm. |
| − | | + | *Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers. |
| − | Pollinator Habitat | + | *Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild. |
| − | This garden, maintained by Penn State Extension Master Gardeners and skilled volunteers, is specially planted and tended to attract pollinators. Plants are both nectar and pollen-rich natives and exotics. The Philadelphia Committee of the Garden Club of America initially funded the garden in 2010.
| + | *High Tunnel. |
| − | | + | *Greenhouses. |
| − | Community Garden
| + | *Awbury Arboretum’s Landscape Staff Headquarters and Supply Yard. |
| − | Community Garden at Awbury Arboretum - Philadelphia, PA
| + | *Philly Goat Project. |
| − | Community Garden
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| − | This 51-plot Community Garden, established with Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Extension in 1977 is the successor to Great Depression allotments and WWII Victory Gardens. The garden provides flowers, fruit and vegetables to local residents and annually donates substantial quantities of food to Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s City Harvest. What makes this garden even more special is that it is managed by a coordinating committee of neighbors of Awbury Arboretum.
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| − | Awbury Food Forest | |
| − | This permaculture orchard was developed in partnership with the Philadelphia Orchard Project and initial support from the Harlon Fund of the Philadlephia Foundation. Today it is a centerpiece of educational programs for school and camp groups.
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| − | Weavers Way Co-op’s Mort Brooks Farm | |
| − | The “Mort Brooks Memorial Farm” est. in 2000 commemorates a long-time proponent of Urban Agriculture. The farm was established on ¼ acre of Awbury Arboretum’s “Northwest Tract” in 2000 by Mort’s wife Norma Brooks and her friends from Weavers Way Co-op in partnership with Awbury Arboretum. Since 2007, a full time farmer and many volunteers have worked the 2-acre farm, providing learning opportunities for our community as well as fresh, environmentally responsible produce to Weavers Way Cooperative stores. Through the nonprofit Food Moxie (formerly Weavers Way Community Programs), community members and students visit the farms and get their hands dirty planting, weeding, harvesting, tasting and learning about growing healthy food. They also donate food to local organizations that serve our communities.
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| − | Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers
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| − | The Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers is a non-profit organization whose mission is to foster the art and craft of weaving and the fiber arts. They maintain several raised beds and grow plants used to dye textiles.
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| − | Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild | |
| − | The Agricultural Village is home of the Philly Beekeepers Guild, who have been “givin’ a durn about bees since 2009.” They established and care for dozens of hives on site and host workshops, symposiums, extraction sessions, and more, caring for these pollinators and serving a resources for local beekeepers.
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| − | High Tunnel | |
| − | In 2008, Penn State Cooperative Extension partnered with Weavers Way Farm and Awbury Arboretum to build a hoophouse at the Agricultural Village for experimentation with season extension.
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| − | Greenhouses
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| − | Greenhouses at Awbury Arboretum
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| − | Weavers Way partners with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s City Harvest Program, providing food to several organizations combating hunger in Philadelphia. Since 2008, Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Extension, Weavers Way Farm, Awbury Arboretum, and PHS City Harvest Program, have joined in season-extension through use of a high tunnel/hoop house, a heated greenhouse to start seeds and a shade house for hardening off seedlings.
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| − | Awbury Arboretum’s Landscape Staff Headquarters and Supply Yard | |
| − | Awbury Arboretum’s Landscape Staff strive daily to maintain Awbury’s 55 acres of green space so each area may be enjoyed by visitors, and utilized for programming, rentals, and community events. The landscape staff also collaborates with Awbury’s partners on projects, general landscape support in the Agricultural Areas.
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| − | Philly Goat Project | |
| − | The Philly Goat Project is a unique community-based program offering four services: grazing overgrown vegetation, animal-assisted therapy, goat yoga and community wellness. With the help of volunteers, they are currently building the goats’ enclosure. More info to come!
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| | ''Note:'' The above description came from the organization's [http://awbury.org/agricultural-village/ page] at Awbury Arboretum. | | ''Note:'' The above description came from the organization's [http://awbury.org/agricultural-village/ page] at Awbury Arboretum. |
