Growing community green spaces:

Reimagining a vacant lot

A collage of photos showing community activities such as a classroom presentation on urban gardening, children harvesting vegetables, people working in a garden, a site visit with people walking outside, a group of students in a meeting, and a field trip at Norris Square neighborhood, with text indicating a 14-week class journey and project.
A notice board on a fence announcing a vacant lot event, with a building made of stone bricks in the background, a street, parked cars, electric poles, and trees under a clear blue sky.
A man in a light-colored suit is giving a presentation to a seated audience in a room with stained glass windows. The audience is listening attentively, and there are plants and floral decorations on the tables.
Architectural blueprints and plans for raised garden beds, including detailed measurements and material schedules, with images of assembled garden beds and a farm or garden scene.
A detailed landscape architectural plan for a rain garden, including plant species, proposed fencing, paths, and surrounding streets. Features labels for various trees, shrubs, and design elements.
A plant schedule chart with images of different plants, categorized into Trees, Shrubs, Grasses and Sedges, Herbaceous, and other plant types. Each section includes pictures and names of specific plants like Canadian Serviceberry, Summersweet, Viburnum, Cherokee Sedge, Little Bunny Fountain Grass, Prairie Dropseed, Bergamot, Blue Ice Eastern Bluestar, Golden Groundsel, Hairy Alumroot, Butterfly Milkweed, Beardtongue, Eastern Bee Balm, and Standing Ovation Little Bluestem.
Two women working on planting or maintaining a garden bed behind a chain-link fence on a sunny day in an urban neighborhood with houses and parked cars in the background.
Woman wearing red shirt, red headscarf, orange gloves, and earrings, working in a garden bed surrounded by a wooden border with gardening tools and a water bottle nearby.
Four people standing under a partially constructed wooden pergola in a backyard, with grass, a ladder, and a building in the background.

Project Partners:

Carroll Park Community Members

Hope’s Beacon Church

Overbrook Environmental Education Center

Councilman Jones Office

Saint Joseph’s University - Barnes Horticulture Program

Audubon