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Welcome to the home page for the Brewery Garden Project. Take a look
at What's New in our web.
Peggy in the Garden |
Why a Community Garden?
Our aim is to transform a weed and trash infested lot into a community asset.
This is a collaborative project created by the members of the Philadelphia East Falls
community who share in the maintenance and rewards of the garden.
We want to thank many folks for their generous donations,
but without the help of the Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society, we never would have gotten started.
We are located at the corner of Conrad St. and Indian Queen Lane in the East
Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. The Hohenadel Brewery, long abandoned,
was once on the site, thus the name the Brewery Garden
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2004
Spring 2003
Spring 2002
 | Had first meeting
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| Paco Verin from the Horticultural Society came to the garden with seeds
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| Planned first work day for May 11th, mulching trees on Midvale. Thanks to Stanley's Hardware for donation of the mulch!
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Fall 2001
Summer 2001
| Thanks to garden members who watered through a long, hot summer, we have had a
great harvest so far!
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| Garden Get- together, 7:30 pm
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Spring 2001
| First work day April 7th 2001.
Built 4 new beds.
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| Mulched trees on Midvale Ave.
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Fall/Winter 2000
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got an Honorable Mention in the large community vegetable gardens category
of the City Gardens Contest
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| Thanks
to the Horticultural Society (again) for the donation of two trees and
three shrubs, planted in October
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| Philadelphia
University students help out as part of their environmental science class
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Horticultural society comes through again with water barrels!
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| Philadelphia
University students help out during the Community
Service Plunge
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June 2000
| Received
a very generous donation of annuals from Meadowbrook Farms in Meadowbrook,
PA.
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| Had
two work days in which we dug more than 100' of new flower beds around the perimeter of the
garden. Planted all the annuals.
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| Planned
watering schedule
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May 2000
| Everyone
has their plots planted
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| Built
a storage box
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| Next
membership meeting planned June 7th, 7:00, at the garden
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April 2000
| Had our first work day on
April 1. See a couple of photos.
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| Welcome to 5 new members!
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| On
April 29th: We mulched about 50 flowering cherry trees on Midvale Ave.
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Winter 2000
| Thanks to Pete's Garden Center for donating beautiful pots, America the
Beautiful fund for free seeds, and Jack Lally for Bird Houses!
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| Had our first meeting of the year March 2.
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October 1999
| Seven trees, all donated, were planted
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| Printed up the first Brewery
Garden Bulletin
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| Thanks to the mystery donation of truckloads of woodchips, we have made a
lot of progress in creating paths
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August 1999
| Students from Philadelphia University helped with various chores as part
of their Community Service Plunge. Much thanks to them and other friends
of the garden!
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| A donation of wood from Philadelphia Green enabled us to build two new
raised beds
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July 1999
| Met with Conrad Street neighbors, July 13
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| Member meeting
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June 1999
| Started planting!
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| Got water barrels from Sally
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May 1999
| Meeting in the Garden Thursday, June 3rd at 7:30
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| We are lucky enough to be the site of the last Horticultural Society meeting,
which was the beginning
of the garden. They even brought a bobcat!
 | put up fencing
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| Thanks to Guy Bruno and Home Depot, who donated lumber and materials for
raised beds
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April 1999
| Creating Web
page
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| Working on Homework! See what the
garden site looked
like before!
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