Members Forum

The Scholarship Committee for the Weeders Garden Club made an investigative trip down to the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia to review a possible grantee: Fair Amount Food Forest run by Michael Mulbauer. Fair Amount Food Forest is a community based, publicly accessible and educational garden. A food forest is a gardening technique which works within a woodland eco system and incorporates trees, shrubs, and perennials to produce human food. The committee was very impressed by Mr. Mulbauer who not only supervises the garden plans, but also the volunteers, the outreach to the community, the educational programs on site as well as in the local schools. All food produced by the garden is either free to the neighbors or donated to the local pantry. 

We then went on to My Neighborhood Project, the Norris Square urban garden project in Kensington, where we met with Andrea Bilbioni, the new director. The…