We are so grateful for the year we’ve had in community, building toward lasting land security organizing and staying committed to supporting our neighbors through exceptionally challenging times. Before we take some time to rest for winter, we are calling on our supporters (like you!) to help us with our annual end of year campaign.Continue reading “Support our 2025 fundraising campaign to purchase the last parcel at Iglesias Garden!”
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Heavy Harvest: Deadlift Competition Fundraiser!
Announcing our first-ever Heavy Harvest, deadlift-only fundraiser, supporting Iglesias Gardens! All funds raised will go toward supporting our work protecting community land.Heavy Harvest will be hosted at BAMN Fitness on Sunday, September 28!Prizes will be awarded for:Heaviest Harvest (biggest lift),Best Dressed, andBest Walk-out.Pick your own deadlift song, lift heavy, and help the garden grow!Please registerContinue reading “Heavy Harvest: Deadlift Competition Fundraiser!”
Our Community Block Party this Saturday!
Come out to the garden for Our Community Block Party this Saturday, August 9, 4-7pm! We’ll have a water slide bounce house, kids games, a potluck dinner (bring a dish to share!) & BBQ, free backpacks & school supplies, face painting, Cumbia lessons in the evening, music, art and good times. We’ll also be talkingContinue reading “Our Community Block Party this Saturday!”
Land Security Training & Volunteer Orientation this Week!
In May, our Land Security branch hired our first full-time organizer, Ryan Gittler-Muniz! Ryan has been a member of the garden since 2021 and will be working with our core group to build a new and powerful base of land stewards in Philadelphia. This summer, we are starting a citywide surveying effort to identify vacantContinue reading “Land Security Training & Volunteer Orientation this Week!”
We take care of us! Support the Iglesias Garden community fund!
Please join us in uplifting our 2024 fundraiser! Read for more information and some financial updates: From our Chuffed campaign The Iglesias Gardens is a neighborhood project in West Kensington and a city-wide land security organizing project in Philadelphia. Started in 2012 when neighbors and organizers came together to transform vacant land into a collectiveContinue reading “We take care of us! Support the Iglesias Garden community fund!”
It’s Been Four Years, Where are Our Mortgages?
It’s been four and half years since the land bank verbally committed several parcels to our garden. During this time we’ve watched Mo Rushdy and other predatory developers get their projects approved immediately. While we have been knocking on doors, doing outreach, and essentially doing the Land Bank’s job of engaging the community about theContinue reading “It’s Been Four Years, Where are Our Mortgages?”
Land to Developers is Fast-tracked; Land Security for Gardens Still on Hold
If you’ve walked past the garden this week, you’ve see some upsetting developments. Our Memorial/ Children’s garden was half-flattened and is now coated in rubble. The house next door, which held murals honoring neighbors on the block who died too young, was an abandoned PHA property they sold to a private developer this summer. TheyContinue reading “Land to Developers is Fast-tracked; Land Security for Gardens Still on Hold”
Sheriff Sales Return July 2024 & Reduce Beloved Community Spaces to Commodities, Sold to the Highest Bidder
(Spanish abajo) Today, 7/12/24, for the first time in over three years, the City of Philadelphia will resume online sheriff sales for tax-delinquent lots and houses. As a community garden and neighborhood organizing project, some of our garden land and the land of other lot stewards remain vulnerable to these sales, and so we reassertContinue reading “Sheriff Sales Return July 2024 & Reduce Beloved Community Spaces to Commodities, Sold to the Highest Bidder”
Solidarity with Palestine
As an organization engaged in land-based struggle on stolen land, Iglesias Gardens stands in full solidarity with the Palestinian people and their demand for decolonization. We honor life and condemn Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Statement on City Re-Acquisition of the 91 US Bank Liens on Community Gardens
Four years ago, when we realized our garden was at risk because of U.S. Bank liens, we knew we couldn’t win security for our land on our own. We began organizing ourselves, our neighbors, and residents across Philly who love and care for U.S. Bank lien lots. Through our campaign, we canvassed more than 1000Continue reading “Statement on City Re-Acquisition of the 91 US Bank Liens on Community Gardens”
Cesar Andreú Iglesias Community Garden 