Northern Liberties Neighbors Association

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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

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