POP has planted orchards with a diverse range of community-based organizations throughout Philadelphia.

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• Cambria Orchard, Kensington. A small neighborhood orchard maintained by long time residents with harvest distributed to the children and other neighbors.
• Chester Avenue Orchard, Squirrel Hill. The Chester Avenue Community Garden is preserved in the Neighborhood Gardens Association. The harvest is distributed to gardeners and food banks.
• Evelyn Sanders Orchard, Fairhill. The Women's Community Revitalization Project planted this orchard as a community space in their new housing development for young mothers and their families. The orchard is cared for by staff and resident volunteers and the harvest will be distributed within the community.
• Fair Hill Burial Ground, North Philadelphia. Friends of Fair Hill Burial Ground added an orchard to the community garden on the edge of their landmark cemetery, where famous abolitionists rest. Youth involved in Fair Hill's environmental education programs share the harvest with their families and neighbors.
• Francisville Orchard, Francisville. The Francisville Neighborhood Development Corporation and Community Ventures teamed up with POP to plant this orchard. Their long-term vision is to bring back the vineyards and farming of this lower North Philadelphia neighborhood once home to agricultural estates.
• Greenfield Orchard, Center City. This orchard was planted as part of an ambitious ecological upgrade of Greenfield Elementary School's landscape known as the Greening of Greenfield. Students use this edible forest garden as a resource to learn about food and ecology and the harvest provides healthy and nutritious snacks.
• Growing Minds Orchard, West Philadelphia. Planted in collaboration with staff and students from the Growing Minds program of the Richard Allen Preparatory Charter School. The orchard is part of a larger environmental landscape plan developed by OLIN and Growing Minds. Produce will be distributed to students and their families.
• Grupo Motivos Orchard, Norris Square. Grupo Motivos, the women’s collective of the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, are expanding their landmark community garden into a greater engine of neighborhood food security. The harvest is distributed to neighbors and used in cultural and culinary programs at Norris Square.
• Hartranft Orchard, North Philadelphia. Students and teachers at Hartranft Elementary School maintain this orchard as part of their science and environmental education programs. POP collaborated with the Mural Arts Program and PlaySpace in this schoolyard greening project, which included de-paving part of the parking lot.
• Martin Luther King High School Farm, West Oak Lane. Student farmers from King now add yields from berry bushes and kiwiberry vines to the vegetable crops they grow and sell at City Hall Farmers Market. Proceeds help sustain this educational farm.
• New Africa Orchard, West Philadelphia. The New Africa Center and Muslim American Museum maintains this orchard and distributes the harvest through its youth programs.
• Nicetown CDC Orchard, Nicetown. This orchard is part of a new community garden developed by Nicetown Community Development Corporation. The harvest is distributed to gardeners and neighbors.
• Pentridge Children’s Orchard, West Philadelphia. Figs, berry bushes,and kiwi vines were added and aging apple trees revived at the Pentridge Children’s Garden, a community-run garden space providing food and fun for the children of the Cedar Park neighborhood.
• Roxborough Orchard, Roxborough. The Roxborough Presbyterian Church expanded their new community garden with an orchard of fruit trees and berry bushes. Half of the harvest will be distributed to a local food bank and the rest shared among community gardeners.
• SHARE Orchard, Allegheny. POP and SHARE collaborated on the first phase of a plan to create an urban farming demonstration site that will inspire and teach those needing emergency food support to be able to grow their own! The orchard harvest will supplement regional emergency food sources with fresh, organic produce.
• Strawberry Mansion Children’s Orchard at Woodford, East Fairmount Park. The East Park Revitalization Alliance, Fairmount Park, and the Naomi Wood Trust collaborated with POP to bring an orchard back to the Strawberry Mansion section of the park, which was once dotted with agricultural estates. EPRA's youth programs maintain and use the orchard for learning and eating. This is the place to go if you want to visit a POP orchard, as the Woodford museum has open hours from 10-4 Tuesday through Sunday.
• Teens 4 Good Orchard, Poplar. Teens 4 Good runs youth entrepreneurship programs that sell home-grown produce to local restaurants and at City Hall Farmers Market. The orchard supplements vegetable production and proceeds are reinvested in youth programs.
• United Communities Orchard, South Philadelphia. The Southeast Philadelphia Collaborative and United Communities of Southeast Philadelphia maintain POP’s first orchard through their youth programs. A new Teens 4 Good partner, the orchard supplements vegetable production and proceeds are reinvested in the youth programs.
• United States Botanic Garden Display Orchard, Washington DC. The US Botanic Garden invited POP to plant a permaculture orchard in the “One Planet-Ours” exhibit in 2008. At the close of the exhibit POP brought the plants back to Philadelphia for planting here.
• Village of Arts and Humanities Orchard, North Philadelphia. The Village of Arts and Humanities has been transforming their neighborhood with art, gardens, and educational programming for decades. In Spring 2010, they partnered with POP in planting a new community orchard that will be harvested by their students and provide fresh produce for their community kitchen.