Neighborhood Land Power Project

Pollinator Planting Day - Calling All Volunteers!
Saturday, June 6th, 2026
Help plant our Pollinator Habitats!
Meet at NLPP Foods Farm - 608 North 53rd Street, Philadelphia, PA
RSVP or More Info at: [email protected]






1h

Xylocopa Virginica, often called the Eastern Carpenter Bee, is a PA Native Species, and seen here happily doing its pollinating thing. Can anyone name that flower???

Contact us to confirm participation.

EARTH DAY 2026

Look what popped up across the street from the Neighborhood Food Farm (NLPP)! We now have a bike share at 53rd and Poplar! Save the earth - use pedal power instead of petroleum power!

Neighborhood Land Power Project is hiring farm and land stewards NOW for our growing spaces in the Haddington Neighborhood of West Philadelphia:

Year-Round -Full-Time Land Steward- to manage growing at the Neighborhood Food Farm (608 North 53rd Street)

Full-Time -Seasonal Land Steward- to support growing at the Neighborhood Food Farm (608 North 53rd Street)

Part-Time -Seasonal Land Steward- to support growing and health of the orchard trees at the Conestoga-Pearl Community Gardens (5427 Vine Street)

Details for ALL open NLPP positions are included here: linktr.ee/neighborhoodlandpowerproject

All interested candidates should apply!

Carole Williams-Green,​ is a lifelong educator who spent more than 30 years as a public-school teacher and administrator. In the 70's and 80's she served on PECO’s Energy Education Advisory Council, contributing to the development of energy education curricula. Her love of science education fueled a decade-long campaign to establish the Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center which opened in 2001.

Williams-Green spearheaded volunteer and community efforts to raise $2.7 million, and win the support of city and state officials needed to turn the abandoned Fairmount Park Police Stables into a beloved environmental education center. The Center, now known as Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center, Inc. (CCCEEC, Inc.), includes classrooms, restored habitats and demonstration gardens, an outdoor amphitheater, and a wide range of community programs. Her vision and persistence helped create a beloved institution that continues to inspire environmental learning and stewardship across generations.

Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917–1977, was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader of the civil rights movement, who believed that Black political rights could not be separated from economic justice. Hamer sacrificed her physical safety to organize and register Black voters throughout the 1960s. She was Vice-Chair of the Freedom Democratic Party when she represented them at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and became famous and oft-quoted for her response to the refusal to seat Black Mississippi delegates. In 1964, Hamer organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1969, Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative (FFC), empowering land ownership to combat economic insecurity and food scarcity. FFC's goals included augmenting community food needs, providing decent housing, and creating a business incubator to grow Black-owned companies. In 1971, Hamer co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus, an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who sought public office. In January 2025, Hamer was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civilian honor.