Northern Liberties Community Garden Tour – Sat, June 17
10am-2pm(rain date June 18)
Wanna see someof the best secret retreats in Philadelphia?
Walk the Northern Liberties Loop, a self-guided tour of Spooky Garden, Seedy Acres, Orkney Park, Orianna Hill Community Garden,Liberty Lands Park & Community Garden, and The Bodine School Yard Garden.
Part of a city-wide celebration of community gardens & organized by the Neighborhood Gardens Trust, this tour features a wide variety of approaches to urban greening in a 1-mile, family friendly loop.
All of our gardens will have tours & activities!
Two of the gardens contain playgrounds!
Spooky Garden will host a BBQ beginning at noon!
It's a wonderful opportunity to see a diverse collection of innovative approaches to urban greening, from a community-owned park built on a former brown fields site, to a miniature urban forest, to a storm water garden at a public school.Parking will be available for out-of-neighborhood visitors in the Bodine HS parking lot. Here's the NoLibs route:
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City Planter 814 N. 4th St – RefreshmentsOrianna Hill 900 N. Orianna StLiberty Lands 961 N. 3rd StBodine High School 1101 N. 4th St – Free ParkingSpooky Garden 1116 N. 4th St through to 1015 N. Leithgow StSeedy Acres 912 N. Leithgow StOrkney Park 867 N. Orkney St