Summer Saturdays at HFH
Gardening and Open Zone of Peace – help out in the community garden, take home fresh produce. Come sit under the trees and enjoy the birds and flowers. Free...
Free farm stand
Every Thursday morning, HFH gardeners are giving away fresh produce with good conversation and cooking tips in English and Spanish. Ms. Guzman, HFH librarian, gives out summer reading books...
Free farm stand
Every Thursday morning, HFH gardeners are giving away fresh produce with good conversation and cooking tips in English and Spanish. Ms. Guzman, HFH librarian, gives out summer reading books...
Under the Bonnet Performances August 22 & 29
Description:Quaker, wife, mother, teacher, orator, friend, activist and symbol of strength and determination. A tenacious woman who spent her life fighting for the rights of women and African Americans,...
Summer Saturdays at HFH
Gardening and Open Zone of Peace – help out in the community garden, take home fresh produce. Come sit under the trees and enjoy the birds and flowers. Free...
Free farm stand
Every Thursday morning, HFH gardeners are giving away fresh produce with good conversation and cooking tips in English and Spanish. Ms. Guzman, HFH librarian, gives out summer reading books...
Summer Saturdays at HFH
Gardening and Open Zone of Peace – help out in the community garden, take home fresh produce. Come sit under the trees and enjoy the birds and flowers. Free...
Free farm stand
Every Thursday morning, HFH gardeners are giving away fresh produce with good conversation and cooking tips in English and Spanish. Ms. Guzman, HFH librarian, gives out summer reading books...
BOOK DRIVE: bring books!
Help collect books for Fairhill children’s summer reading. With schools and libraries closed, Fairhill kids need books. We are passing out new and used books at food distributions at deBurgos...
Summer Saturdays at HFH
Gardening and Open Zone of Peace – help out in the community garden, take home fresh produce. Come sit under the trees and enjoy the birds and flowers. Free...
HFH Women’s History Contest Winners
Earlier this year, students and teachers in Fair Hill were invited to participate in the annual Women’s History Essay Contest at Historic Fair Hill, where Lucretia Mott and Harriet...
Free farm stand
Every Thursday morning, as Julia deBurgos School distributes hundreds of boxed meals, HFH gardeners give away fresh produce with good conversation and cooking tips in English and Spanish. The four...
Summer Saturdays at HFH
Gardening and Open Zone of Peace – help out in the community garden, take home fresh produce. Come sit under the trees and enjoy the birds and flowers. Free...
Free farm stand
Every Thursday morning, as Julia deBurgos School distributes hundreds of boxed meals, HFH gardeners give away fresh produce with good conversation and cooking tips in English and Spanish. The four...
Summer Saturdays at HFH
Gardening and Open Zone of Peace – help out in the community garden, take home fresh produce. Come sit under the trees and enjoy the birds and flowers. Free...
POSTPONED – Youth Farm stand begins
POSTPONED UNTIL STAY AT HOME ORDER IS LIFTED. Purchase the harvested crops from the youth farm program at HFH Burial Ground.
Recap: The 2019-20 School Year
Classes at Julia deBurgos and Hartranft Schools were cut short by COVID-19, but the HFH partnership for literacy showed good success this school year. Our bilingual parent assistants reduced...
Saturday Open Hours in a Zone of Peace
Neighbors who have sheltered at home for two months can now come out to walk and play and de-stress in the beautiful 5 acre park of Fair Hill Burial Ground. ...
Thursdays – Free Farm Stand at Semilla Children’s Garden
Every Thursday morning, as Julia deBurgos School distributes hundreds of boxed meals, HFH gardeners give away fresh produce with good conversation and cooking tips in English and Spanish. The four...
POSTPONED – 100th Anniversary Performance of “Under the Bonnet”
POSTPONED UNTIL STAY AT HOME ORDER IS LIFTED. 100th Anniversary performance of “Under the Bonnet”, a world premiere play about Lucretia and James Mott, Frederick Douglas. From abolition...
Dear Friends and Neighbors of Historic Fair Hill
We at Historic Fair Hill grieve the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery and recognize that they represent many other lives taken and suppressed by structural...
POSTPONED – Second Saturday – Gardening and History tours
POSTPONED UNTIL STAY AT HOME ORDER IS LIFTED. Come to Historic Fair Hill for a tour of six great wall murals telling 300 years of stories of the...
Introducing our 2020 Garden Team
Despite the virus, our garden team is doing essential service of planting gardens for food and for beauty in Fairhill.
Fairhill Tree Tenders Planting Day
Help plant trees around the neighborhood. Meet at the burial ground, bring gloves if you have them.
Star Party of the Franklin Institute Science Festival
See the Moons of Jupiter and Rings of Saturn through 8” telescopes. In partnership with the Franklin Institute. https://www.fi.edu/psf
Garden Opening Day
Join us for the first day in the gardens! Dress appropriately for the weather, bring gloves if you have them – we’ll see you there!
Women’s History Essay Contest Event
Women’s History Essay contest event. Hear wining essays from Fairhill schoolchildren and see performance of new play about Lucretia and James Mott, Frederick Douglas by the Beacon Theater productions....
Black History Month Tour
Black history month tour of Underground Railroad Mural and Female Anti Slavery Mural. Also visit the graves of great abolitionists Robert and Harriet Purvis, Lucretia and James Mott.
School Libraries, An Update
The school libraries at Julia deBurgos and John Hartranft Schools in Fairhill are busy and happy, filled with beautiful books where children can choose those that interest them. At...
MLK Day of Service – January 20, 2020
On a frigid MLK Day, 30 hardy volunteers came out to mulch the fruit trees, pick up fallen branches,clean up the school garden, and fill 25 contractor bags with...