2nd Saturdays* Garden Workday/History Tours**
Garden Workday: Every Second Saturday this season, join us in the gardens! We’ll be tending to the beds, planting new flowers and veggies, weeding, mulching, and more. No experience...
Lecture on Lucretia Mott scheduled for May 15 at 6:30 at HFH Burial Ground
Join Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy A Hewitt, Beverly Palmer, editors of the new book, “Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons” for a lecture and discussion. We...
HFH featured in GROW Magazine – Article inside
Click on the image below to download the article featuring HFH in GROW Magazine. NOTE: This is an excerpt. Want the whole magazine? Click here.
RAIN DATE: Astronomy Night – PhilaScience Fest
Rain Date: Saturday, April 29, 7:30 – 9:30pm In partnership with The Franklin Institute, this stargazing event is a family-friendly chance to learn more about our night skies. While...
Astronomy Night – PhilaScience Fest
Rain Date: Saturday, April 29, 7:30 – 9:30pm In partnership with the Franklin Institute, this stargazing event is a family-friendly chance to learn more about our night skies. While...
Welcome Jasmine Hamilton, New Garden Manager
Welcome Jasmine Hamilton, New Garden Manager Jasmine was recruited for HFH by former manager Bri Barton. Jasmine has worked with Mariposa, Urban Tree Connection, Phila Parks and Recreation, all related...
MLK Day of Service
Come help clean up the burial ground, enjoy a fire with good company, and share readings from Dr. Kings letters and sermons.
Autumn Tree Planting Day
In partnership with Tree Tenders of PA Horticultural Society, HFH organizes shade tree planting in the Fairhill neighborhood. Tenants or homeowners sign up to care for a tree on...
Back to School in Fairhill
At Julia deBurgos School, HFH reading buddies have started to read with K-3 children. New volunteer Faith Watson of Chestnut Hill says of her first day, “It was great....
Orchard Harvest Festival
Together with Historic Germantown and the Philadelphia Orchard Project, this is a celebration of the year’s bounty. Along with a celebration of our harvest, it’s also our commitment to...
Book Deserts: Your donations at work
According to a recent article in The Atlantic, a typical child born to a white collar family will hear forty-five (45) million words by the time s/he reaches age...
Boathouse Party 2016, in Review
The annual Boathouse Party for HFH is one of our favorite events. It gives us a chance to gather with friends in celebration of the things that we have...
Annual Boathouse Benefit
Every year we host an event along the Schuylkill River with a local speaker, food prepared by our youth group with the vegetables they’ve grown, and other local refreshments....
Second Saturdays: Garden With Us!
Every Second Saturday this season, join us in the gardens! We’ll be tending to the beds, planting new flowers and veggies, weeding, mulching, and more. No experience necessary; we’ll...
Second Saturdays: Garden with Us!
Every Second Saturday this summer, join us in the gardens! We’ll be tending to the beds, planting new flowers and veggies, weeding, mulching, and more. No experience necessary; we’ll...
Second Saturdays: Summer Festival
This is one of our favorite events! Our annual Summer Festival is a vibrant, joyful occasion to come together as a community and enjoy our outdoor space. We’ll have...
Second Saturdays: Family Garden Day
Join us for a gardening lesson, and take home vegetable plants to grow all summer! No gardening experience necessary.
A Letter from Bri, Garden Manager
Hello neighbors, friends, volunteers and family! It’s been a beautiful whirlwind at Historic Fair Hill this spring. We’ve accomplished so much because of you. Yes, you! Thank you. The...
Second Saturdays: Garden with Us!
Every Second Saturday this summer, join us in the gardens! This is a family-friendly event, so bring your kids to garden or just to play. Workday: 10-2 Open hours: 9-3...
City transfers corner gardens to Historic Fair Hill
This spring, the city of Philadelphia transferred the lots at the corner of Ninth and Indiana Street to Historic Fair Hill. The community gardens that our team and neighbors...
Sharing green ideas at Hannah House garden
Saturday, April 30 at the Hannah House garden was a neighborhood workday and workshop on “Growing Safely in Urban Soil.” The city Parks and Recreation Department, Department of Public...
Demonstration Day: Working in Urban Soils
In collaboration with FarmPhilly and the Department of Parks and Recreation, our Garden Manager Bri Barton will be explaining how you can healthily grow produce in the city. She’ll...
From Fairhill to the Moons of Jupiter
This last Saturday, we welcomed a crowd of forty at dusk to look at the stars and planets on Astronomy Night. The event was one of over a dozen throughout...
Astronomy Night
Rain Date: Saturday, April 23, 7:30 – 9:30pm In partnership with the Franklin Institute, this stargazing event is a family-friendly chance to learn more about our night skies. While...
Spring Tree Planting
In partnership with Tree Tenders of PA Horticultural Society, HFH organizes shade tree planting in the Fairhill neighborhood. Tenants or homeowners sign up to care for a tree on...
Spring Garden Opening Day
Join us for the launch of the gardening season! Come help us clean up from winter, prepare gardens, and plant early vegetables and flowers. This will be a great event as...
Vashti Dubois: embrace the extraordinary in the ordinary
This month, in honor of Women’s History month, we invited Vashti Dubois to speak at Historic Fair Hill. On an early spring Saturday, a small group of women and...
Women’s History Tour with Vashti Dubois
In the early part of the last century, Historic Fair Hill was the site of a yearly pilgrimage of women. Two of the five organizers of the Seneca Falls Conference on...
Black History Month Essay Contest
This educational project encourages local students to learn about the great reformers who are buried in their neighborhood and to honor their contributions by sharing their stories with the...
Experts team up for Julia de Burgos school library reopening
Original architects Jane Rath and Vincent Rivera pitch in with library organizer Jessica Kahn to help the elementary school bring back its library.