Come to LandHealth's nursery opening at the former Greensgrow Farms April 12th 11am-3pm!
LandHealth Institute has spent the last nine years empowering Philadelphians to connect with nature through our teaching nursery at West Parkside. In 2026, we are beginning a new chapter and moving our nursery operations to the former Greensgrow Farms, partnering with NKCDC to activate the site through educational programming.
We will be open for regular programs, including monthly Wonder Walks and weekly plant chats to provide guidance around home gardening beginning the week of April 13th, 2026!
We will also continue offering our services for native landscape projects. If you’d like to reach out, please contact saramae@landhealthinstitute.org.
LandHealth Institute takes pride in the revitalization of underutilized urban land. LandHealth cultivates species variations specific to our local ecosystem, to support land health across our neighborhoods and region.
Native plants create functional and beautiful landscapes that require less maintenance than traditional gardens. Our plants are cultivated with Philadelphia in mind to attract species most important to our ecosystem... songbirds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects.
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For the last 9 years, LandHealth Institute has centralized our nursery operations at West Parkside, and we’ve just moved to East Kensington to reactivate the former Greensgrow Farms site in partnership with New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC). In year one at the former Greensgrow Farms, we will develop a better understanding of what networks already exist in the service area around the site and identify places where we can plug in and partner. We will be growing crops to donate to our local food pantries, alongside facilitating educational programming for students, neighbors, and community partners, while building our volunteer base. We will develop our container ecosystem products which demonstrate our layered approach to building hardy ecosystems, and by extension, climate resilience, using these as educational tools for empowering our neighbors and program participants.
