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There are still spots left for tomorrow's Community Garden workshop- Growing for Donation: Community Garden Production & Distribution Strategies.

Many community gardens seek to increase fresh food access in their neighborhoods by growing crops to share with community members for free, or donating produce to local food pantries. How can we make the most of our efforts to grow healthy, productive crops for donation?

Learn more and Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/growing-for-donation-community-garden-production-distribution-strategies-tickets-950065871597?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Land tenure remains a top concern and challenge for community gardeners and urban farmers in Pittsburgh

‘We don’t want to leave’: Community garden in Manchester area in danger of losing its space Manchester Food for the Soul Community Garden has been a staple in the Manchester area, but next year they could be closed for good.

Tickets are on sale for the 2024 Pittsburgh Urban Farm Tour! Join us on September 14th to explore gardens and farms across the city! Register now: farmtour2024.eventbrite.com

Join us this Tuesday for a Pest and Disease Walk at Braddock Farms Penn State Extension agent Glen Bupp! Learn more and register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pest-disease-walk-tickets-950069010987?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Our 6 affordable farm stands each week are here to fill a crucial gap in the food system. Visit us to get your fresh fruits and veggies! Reminder: we take EBT, SNAP, Food Bucks, and the new SUN Bucks at all our farm stand locations.

Farm stand hours:
🥬Braddock Farm Stand
- Wednesday - 3:30pm - 6PM
-Friday - 3:30pm - 6PM
-Saturday- 9am - 1PM

🥦Shiloh Farm Stand
-Thursday- 2:30pm - 6:30PM

🥕Wilkinsburg Farmers Market
-Thursday- 4pm - 6PM

🍅Homewood Farmers Market
-Saturday- 9:30AM - 12:30PM

HUGE thank you to everyone who helped make our 2024 Garden Get Down such a success! To all our guests, sponsors, and vendors, we can't thank all of you enough for coming out to celebrate fresh food and gardening with us, and we hope to see you again next year!

Today is the last day that you can get tickets for this year’s Garden Get Down! Get your tickets to join in on tomorrow's fun! Get your tickets now: gardengetdown2024.eventbrite.com

The Garden Get Down is IN 2 DAYS!! The last day to get tickets is TOMORROW. Join us for a fun celebration filled with fresh local food and drinks, a seed share, kids activities, a tour of Gardens of Millvale, and an awards ceremony celebrating local growers and fresh food lovers! Get your tickets now at https://gardengetdown2024.eventbrite.com

The Garden Get Down on Tuesday! We are grateful to our sponsors who helped make this community celebration possible! Thank you to our generous sponsors:

Raising the Beet
-Baird Pittsburgh
-Carnegie Mellon University
-Eat'n Park Hospitality Group
-Western PA Farm to Table

Kick Out the Yams
-Compass RE
-Duolingo
-UMPC Children's Community Pediatrics

Turnip the Volume
-Block and Associates
-Dollar Bank
-East End Food Co-Op
-First National Bank
-PA Preferred
-PNC Bank
-PrimeLending
-Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
-UPMC Health Plan

Community Partners
-Burns Industrial Equipment
-Carbon Compost
-Deeplocalew Federal Credit Union
Deeplocal
-Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
-Littler Mendelsonny, Inc.
Littler Mendelson
-Paragonale Community Development Corporation
-Neighborhood Allies
Paragon
-Pasa Sustainable Agriculture
Pittsburgh Food Policy Council
-Pittsburgh Food Policy Council
-Procopia Consulting
-Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation
-Whole Foods
-World Centric

Our 6 affordable farm stands each week are here to fill a crucial gap in the food system. Visit us to get your fresh fruits and veggies! Reminder: we take EBT, SNAP, Food Bucks, and the new SUN Bucks at all our farm stand locations.

Farm stand hours:
🥬Braddock Farm Stand
- Wednesday - 3:30pm - 6PM
-Friday - 3:30pm - 6PM
-Saturday- 9am - 1PM

🥦Shiloh Farm Stand
-Thursday- 2:30pm - 6:30PM

🥕Wilkinsburg Farmers Market
-Thursday- 4pm - 6PM

🍅Homewood Farmers Market
-Saturday- 10AM - 2PM

We are excited to be honoring some of our community’s most dedicated growers and fresh food lovers at this year's Garden Get Down. We are excited to honor the Gardens of Millvale as our Resilent Community Growers!

As a project of the non-profit Millvale Community Development Corporation since 2010, the Gardens of Millvale strives to create a food independent community through education, preservation, and sustainability. Since Grow Pittsburgh last held our Garden Get Down in Millvale in 2019, the gardeners have epitomized resiliency in expanding food production and deepening community impact through challenging times.

Today, the Gardens of Millvale spans 11 lots, and includes a full orchard lot, a hoop house, pollinator habitats, more than 45 raised beds. They’ve also improved their food distribution and created a paid staff position. Maya Little has been the dedicated garden manager in Millvale since 2020.

Read more about the Gardens of Millvale: https://www.growpittsburgh.org/meet-the-gardens-of-millvale-our-resilient-community-growers/

Today (August 6), The Pittsburgh Foundation is hosting a Critical Needs Alert online giving event to support food access and other basic needs in our community. This is the your gift will be matched to improve food security. When you give today to Grow Pittsburgh via the Critical Needs Alert, your donation will be matched by incentive funds from The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Give Now: https://www.pittsburghgives.org/organization/grow

RAFFLE ALERT! This is the last week to get your tickets to the Garden Get Down! Get your tickets by Friday night (8/9 at 11:59pm) and you will be entered into a raffle for a $25 gift card and glass from Dancing Gnome!

This year’s Garden Get Down will feature a community seed swap, tours of the , and a small awards ceremony that celebrates local champions of fresh food access. and will be highlighting fresh, local fruits and veggies through their delicious food and drinks.

Get yout tickets today: gardengetdown2024.eventbrite.com

We are excited to have another seed share at this year's Garden Get Down! We will bring plenty of seeds to share, but feel free to bring your own seeds to share with the community!

Have you got your Garden Get Down tickets yet? Get them now to join us on August 13th: gardengetdown2024.eventbrite.com

On Tuesday, August 6, The Pittsburgh Foundation will host a Critical Needs Alert online giving event, and you can help vulnerable community members meet their basic needs and access the resources and opportunities they need to thrive.

Your donation on Aug. 6 will earn extra incentive funds from The Pittsburgh Foundation. Please consider making an extra donation on Tuesday, August 6. Learn more and donate: https://www.pittsburghgives.org/organization/grow

We are excited to announce that we have been chosen to participate in a special charitable giving campaign, sponsored and funded by Target. And you have the chance to help direct a portion of Target’s donation to us!

Now through September 30th, vote for us through the Target Circle program to help determine how Target’s donation will be divvied up. Find out more about Target Circle here: www.target.com/circle

Here’s how to cast a vote for Grow Pittsburgh:

Step 1: Choose “My Target” in the Target app
Step 2: Tap on “Target CircleTM”
Step 3: Select “Vote for nonprofits”
Step 4: Find us & vote!

We are so excited to be bringing the Garden Get Down back to Grist House this year! We can't wait to have catering again and get a tour of the !

Have you got your tickets yet for the upcoming festivities? Get your tickets now gardengetdown2024.eventbrite.com

There is still time to request supplies for your existing community garden via our Community Garden Sustainability/Support Fund! Applications close August 1.

Learn More: https://www.growpittsburgh.org/community-gardens/start-and-build-a-garden/get-funding-and-support/

Save the Date! This year's Urban Farm Tour will take place on September 14th!

Are you interested in having your farm be a part of this year's tour? Fill out the Participant Application, and we will be in touch soon! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctsZ3nKNrtWKeoQfglxpG8NVyDLS9xBmxUpOi8SRHECveyDg/viewform

Farm Stand Reminder!

Our 6 affordable farm stands each week are here to fill a crucial gap in the food system. Visit us to get your fresh fruits and veggies! Reminder: we take EBT, SNAP, Food Bucks, and the new SUN Bucks at all our farm stand locations.

Farm stand hours:
🥬Braddock Farm Stand
- Wednesday - 3:30pm - 6PM
-Friday - 3:30pm - 6PM
-Saturday- 9am - 1PM

🥦Shiloh Farm Stand
-Thursday- 2:30pm - 6:30PM

🥕Wilkinsburg Farmers Market
-Thursday- 4pm - 6PM

🍅Homewood Farmers Market
-Saturday- 10AM - 2PM

We are excited to be growing a selection of native plants in collaboration with Bird Lab! We will be doing a pop-up at Shiloh Farmstand tomorrow (Thurs. 7/25) from 2:30-6:30pm. (7209 Thomas Blvd, Pittsburgh, Pa 15208)

Bird Lab creates and implements bird-focused conservation practices. They do research, education, and community science to help create healthy ecosystems. Nick, the executive director, collected seeds at his conservation projects last year, winter sowed the seeds, and then we up-potted them at the Garden Dreams greenhouse. We are thrilled to have this partnership to be able to increase the number of native plants in our offerings.

Did you know you can harvest tomatoes before they’re ripe? Despite “vine-ripened” being used in advertising, researchers have found there is no taste difference in tomatoes that were harvested when fully ripe versus those harvested when they first started to blush. In fact, harvesting them early can prolong their shelf life and make them less of a target for pests like squirrels and groundhogs. At Shiloh, we harvest our tomatoes when they have about 50% color. This is especially useful for high sugar tomatoes like these delicious sungolds which are prone to cracking when left on the vine too long.

We are excited to be honoring some of our community’s most dedicated growers and fresh food lovers at this years Garden Get Down.

This year’s “School Garden Hero” is William Cary Allen! Cary has been a teacher at the Pittsburgh Public Schools for 32 years and retired earlier this year after teaching at Lincoln Elementary for 10 years. We are excited to honor him at the Garden Get Down in recognition of his decades-long commitment to fostering a love for nature, sustainability, and learning through the school garden.

“He kept worms for composting, other animals for observing and loving, plants growing in the windows and outside in the garden, tactile building supplies in the other spaces. Walking into his educational spaces, both indoors and out, makes you feel curious and excited, the way school is supposed to make you feel.”

Learn more about Cary: https://www.growpittsburgh.org/cary-allen/

RAFFLE ALERT! Tickets are on sale for the Garden Get Down, our annual fundraiser and community celebration! Get your tickets by TONIGHT (7/21 at 11:59pm) and you will be entered into a raffle for 40lbs of organic compost from Carbon Compost!

This year’s Garden Get Down will feature a community seed swap, tours of the , and a small awards ceremony that celebrates local champions of fresh food access. and will be highlighting fresh, local fruits and veggies through their delicious food and drinks.

Get yout tickets today: gardengetdown2024.eventbrite.com

The weather is looking beautiful for our Picnic at Shiloh on Monday! Do you have dinner plans?
Join us for a picnic dinner at Shiloh Farm while supporting Grow Pittsburgh! Your ticket will include a basket for two filled with delicious goodies like babaganoush, hummus spreads, pickled veggies, pasta salad, dessert, and more!

We are now offering sliding-scale tickets for this event! Learn more and get tickets: picnicatshiloh.eventbrite.com

Our 6 affordable farm stands each week are here to fill a crucial gap in the food system. Visit us to get your fresh fruits and veggies! Reminder: we take EBT, SNAP, Food Bucks, and the new SUN Bucks at all our farm stand locations.

Farm stand hours:
🥬Braddock Farm Stand
- Wednesday - 3:30pm - 6PM
-Friday - 3:30pm - 6PM
-Saturday- 9am - 1PM

🥦Shiloh Farm Stand
-Thursday- 2:30pm - 6:30PM

🥕Wilkinsburg Farmers Market
-Thursday- 4pm - 6PM

🍅Homewood Farmers Market
-Saturday- 10AM - 2PM

* Our farm stands will be closed on July 4th and 5th

Join us for National Zucchini Day at our Braddock Farms tomorrow (July 19th)! We will be grilling up Zucchini at our farm from 3:30pm-5 pm so you can share in the abundance. Plus, bring your largest zucchini in for our biggest zucchini contest weigh-off, with a prize for the biggest!

RAFFLE ALERT! Tickets are on sale for the Garden Get Down, our annual fundraiser and community celebration! Get your tickets by the end of this week (7/21 at 11:59pm) and you will be entered into a raffle for 40lbs of organic compost from Carbon Compost!

This year’s Garden Get Down will feature a community seed swap, tours of the , and a small awards ceremony that celebrates local champions of fresh food access. and will be highlighting fresh, local fruits and veggies through their delicious food and drinks.

Get yout tickets today: gardengetdown2024.eventbrite.com

Attention GRC members! Join us tomorrow for the 3rd annual Member Mixer from 12p-3p. We will have food/drinks, a raffle, games for adults and kids, and good conversation with some amazing members and their families.

If you're around, we would love to have you. Members are welcome to bring dishes if they choose, but not mandatory.