Like many good things, this urban farm was started by a couple of badass women. Just a few years ago they got permission from the city to build a mini-farm on this vacant lot in West Philadelphia, next to an existing community garden (which is pretty cool).
When I visited in July, they were harvesting like crazy and selling through a farm stand in front of the lot. They were also taking on high school interns and doing all kinds of cool building/art projects on site.
The last photo above is their newly planted green roof. (That’s sedum, the ever-so-popular plant of choice for green roofs, precisely because it needs almost no water and the thinnest of soil to survive.) Pretty soon, if all goes well, the whole roof will be a carpet of green.
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