2017 | Year 1
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Future site of Sanctuary Farm Phila – corner of 24th and West Berks
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Breaking Ground – Mother’s Day, 2017
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Building beds
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First planting
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The first vegetable harvested!
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Harvesting sweet potatoes with the neighborhood children
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Ended the season with 1,028 pounds of produce harvested
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Harvested 1,082 pounds of fresh produce
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2018 | Year 2
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Year 2 – Families and friends coming together to learn, discover, and play
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Our second site at 22nd and Cecil B. Moore
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Drexel Engineering students installing solar panels
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Teaching gardening to children at the Project HOME and Honickman Learning Center summer camp
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Our first “Veggie Script” Program
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Ended the season with 1,887 pounds of produce harvested
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Harvested 1,887 pounds of fresh produce
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2019 | Year 3
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Began partnership with Stephen Klein Wellness Center to address health disparities for community members living with diabetes.
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Penn Charter students spent the semester learning about food insecurity
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Shipley students prepared our 3rd site at 22n and Ceicel B. Moore
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Our first permanent produce stand
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We began keeping bees – harvested 200 pounds of honey
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Congreso Health Center cooking demo and tour of the farm
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Sweet potato harvest
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Harvested 4,894 pounds of fresh produce
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2020 | Year 4
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Covid interrupted much of our regular programming
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Undeterred by accidents and Covid, we continued to give out produce for free
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Sponsored family “covid unit” days for families to come and volunteer together
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With the need for food increasing, we spread out onto an adjacent abandoned lot
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Ended the year with 2,500 visits to the stand and 700 people served
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Harvested 5,059 pounds of fresh produce
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2021 | Year 5
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Purchased our first 2 parcels of land
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Awarded a grant from the PA Department of Agriculture to establish a 22x56’ high tunnel (greenhouse) for use in propagating and growing produce year-round.
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Constructed a sustainable greenhouse using solar energy, which was designed by Drexel University Chapter Engineers Without Borders.
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Restarted teaching summer camp kids at Honickman
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Harvested 4,443 pounds of fresh produce
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