Hansberry Garden and Nature Center

Learn about the Philadelphia connection to Southern Food from colonial times to the Great Migration and beyond.Valerie Erwin is a Philadelphia chef and social justice activist and a long time resident of Germantown. For 12 years she owned the critically acclaimed Geechee Girl Rice Cafe. Geechee Girl featured the food of the Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia where her grandparents were born. She now manages a food access program for a small local foundation. Valerie does programs and presentations on both Philadelphia and Low Country foodways, on the importance of local food and on the intersection of food

Electric Grioland and Unidos da FiladelfiaExcited to have everyone come to the garden one last time this summer!

Preserving Local Abundance: Preventing Food Waste through Fermentation with April McGregerAfter working all season in the garden, we want to make the most of our harvests and prevent anything from going to waste. In this class, local food preservation expert April McGreger will show us how to use one of the world's oldest and simplest methods of preserving foods, lactic-acid fermentation, to turn our abundance into fermented pickles and salads that will last for many months. We will utilize a small batch method of fermenting by the pint or quart, which requires no special equipment and makes this the perfect