Southwark Queen Village Community Garden

Southwark Queen Village Community Garden One of Philadelphia's Oldest and Finest Community Gardens The award-winning, all-volunteer Southwark/Queen Village Community Garden (SW/QVCG) on Christian St.

offers a wide range of organic horticultural opportunities for local residents with diverse backgrounds, needs and interests. Along with individual and common plots maintained by members, there are vegetable plots devoted solely to growing food for the local “City Harvest” program. Other programs include a weekly Summer Children’s Gardening/ Natural Science Program and tours for schools, universit

y classes, and day camps. The garden relies on more than dirt and plants, thus the members strive to maintain a supportive natural environment. This involves: Beekeeping, Composting, Solar Energy systems, and Water collection, irrigation/disbursement. The SWQV Garden is supported by the Queen Village Neighbors Association, the City of Philadelphia, the PA Horticultural Society, and donations from numerous neighborhood and regional businesses and garden organizations. Most important, the garden's success is due to the generosity of our neighborhood residents and the commitment of the garden founders, especially that of QV resident, Libby Goldstein. See our website for Libby's article on our history. We like to engage with our supportive community, locally and around the globe. Please email us if there is something you'd like us to post on our wall. Happy Planting!

02/23/2026

Love your morning cup of coffee? Don’t toss those used grounds! They hold a secret power to enhance your garden.

02/21/2026
And there's the salad!
05/02/2024

And there's the salad!

04/19/2024

Pre-colonization Glass Gem Corn, Indigenous to North America, regrown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties.

04/19/2024

Ever listen to the sick beats of rhubarb growing in the dark? Forced rhubarb, which is made to mature in near total darkness, grows at such an alarming rate—as much as an inch a day—that it actually makes squeaks, creaks, and pops as it gets bigger. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound
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The technique makes for sweeter rhubarb, growers say, as well as a percussive, chaotic rhythm.⁠
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Please enjoy this kaleidoscopic tart to the smooth sounds of rhubarb snapping & crackling on SoundCloud: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound
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Just perfect!
04/17/2024

Just perfect!

This is a big one!
04/10/2024

This is a big one!

Thinking about joining the cicadas this summer and just screaming for six weeks straight. You?

This spring and early summer, two groups of cicadas—known as “broods”—will be waking up during the same season to serenade us. How nice. What’s the buzz? One brood lives on a 13-year cycle, and the other lives on a 17-year cycle. The broods will emerge at the same time in a rare, synchronized event that last occurred when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House. You might say, it’s been a bit. Brood XIII cicadas will appear in the Midwest, mostly centered in Illinois but also stretching into Wisconsin, Ohio, and Iowa. Brood XIX cicadas have been spotted over a much larger geographic area that includes Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland.

When the cicadas emerge, they’re not exactly quiet about it. They’re heeerrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeee! Cicadas emit a high-pitched buzz, or mating song, that can reach up to 100 decibels—roughly equivalent to a lawn mower or jackhammer. WHAT??? ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO A LAWN MOWER OR JACKHAMMER. OKAY!!!

Image: Closeup of a cicada. Possibly ready to scream.

Gardening gives you the time and place for contemplation 🙃🥰🧅👩‍🌾💚
03/22/2024

Gardening gives you the time and place for contemplation 🙃🥰🧅👩‍🌾💚

He’s got a point…

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