On Saturday, September 14 from 10am until 5pm get your urban farming vibe on with the Pittsburgh Urban Farm Tour. East End Food Co-Op, Pittsburgh Food Policy Council, and PASA Sustainable Farmers are offering their 3rd annual self-guided tour of small commercial farms, community gardens, and apiaries throughout Pittsburgh.
Looking for a close encounter of an agricultural kind? The tour includes chickens and mini-goats!
Looking for fresh produce? Buy it from their farm stands.
Want learn what an urban community apiary is? Come along!
Looking for a visual slice of nature? Tour gardens built on vacant city lots and baseball fields.
The tour includes 11 urban farm and community garden destinations which are having a positively tasty and inspiring impact on Pittsburgh. It’s gonna be a beautiful day to discover our great city’s farmer-in-the-city side.
2019 Urban Farm Tour Sites:
- African Healing Garden
- Ballfield Farm
- Braddock Farms
- BUGS Homewood Historical Community Farm
- Burgh Bees Apiary
- Community Garden of Wilkins Township
- Duquesne Community Victory Garden
- Homeplate Garden
- Manchester Growing Together Farm
- Sankofa Village Community Garden
- Shiloh Farm
Admission is $15; kids age 12 and younger are free. All proceeds support local urban agriculture projects.
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