FIGURE 5. Map of Poverty and BIPOC Residents with Garden Locations Overlaid

Philadelphia’s urban agricultural spaces provide a wide range of benefits, both to the people who tend them, who find community and nourishment there, and to the city overall. These productive green spaces support climate resiliency and a healthier environment, the local economy, and health and wellness. They support food sovereignty and food justice work undertaken by neighbors for neighbors. In Philadelphia and elsewhere, urban agricultural spaces are an integral part of a healthy neighborhood, co-existing with existing land uses and complementing potential new affordable housing and equitable development.

FIGURE 4. The Benefits of Urban Agriculture