UBC Garden of Eden

UBC Garden of Eden UBC Garden of Eden, paradise in the community. Vegetables, fruit trees, flowers, herbs, movies nights, educational programs, community events and more.

The Union Baptist Church (UBC) is a historic congregation that partnered with artist/neighbor Meei Ling Ng to develop a garden (UBC Garden of Eden) that provides fresh organic produce to the neighborhood community refrigerators.

Harvesting is winding down, but there are many more tasks in the garden before we stop for winter.
10/04/2026

Harvesting is winding down, but there are many more tasks in the garden before we stop for winter.

10/04/2026

In the goldenrod. 🐝

This isn't the best day to ask (it's raining), but if you'd like to get rid of CLEAN DRY LEAVES we would happily take th...
09/27/2026

This isn't the best day to ask (it's raining), but if you'd like to get rid of CLEAN DRY LEAVES we would happily take them. We turn them into leaf mulch for the garden. Clean means no bits of trash (ugh, candy wrappers). If you'd like to do this, please drop them off on a Tuesday or Saturday between 8am and 10am when we're at the garden. If one of those days looks rainy you can always message us and verify that we'll be there. Thank you, Dan Oh, for making us think of this!

09/23/2026

Our work time on Tuesday got rained out (yay for rain) so no new pix. However, let's answer a basic question we're often asked: is this a community garden? The answer is mostly no and some yes.

We are not a community garden in the traditional sense of a space where neighborhood people get a plot to grow things. The garden is part of the property belonging to Union Baptist Church (UBC), an important and historic church where the great Marian Anderson grew up singing in the choir. The garden was started about 8 years ago to support the soup kitchen offered by UBC. That operation shut down during the 2020 COVID-19 epidemic, alas, and when the church was able to reopen they were unable to restart the soup kitchen but wanted to keep the garden going. A manager and volunteers were found, and now the garden provides produce that's donated to community refrigerators in the neighborhood (volunteers take produce, too). The Philadelphia Orchard Project helps out with tasks like pruning the fruit trees, bringing compost, and such.

You wouldn't believe how much comes out of a relatively small space. Depending on the season and the year we have raspberries, figs, tomatoes, collards, kale, cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, lettuce, spinach, okra, butternut squash, zucchini, paw-paws, basil, parsley, lavender, sour cherries, plums, Asian pears, peppers, green beans, and once we had a watermelon. We also have plants such as milkweed, coneflower, goldenrod, and bee balm for the pollinators and flowers such as aster, iris, roses, and sunflowers. We see the occasional goldfinch and even an owl 🦉, plus the usual robins, catbirds, sparrows, and lately there are crows in the neighborhood.

When we're working - Tuesdays and Saturdays, 8am-10am - and the gate is open you are welcome to come in, take a look around, sit down and read, look for butterflies - unfortunately you can't bring your dog in. Come meet your neighbors!

Another cool morning!
09/20/2026

Another cool morning!

Oooh, we needed jackets Tuesday morning!! So lovely. Still harvesting collards and kale, lots of cherry tomatoes, and th...
09/16/2026

Oooh, we needed jackets Tuesday morning!! So lovely. Still harvesting collards and kale, lots of cherry tomatoes, and the occasional gigantic titanic squash. Those squash hide in plain sight under the plant’s giant pokey leaves.

A fun morning in the garden on Saturday. ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Thank you, Maureen, for bringing containers!
09/13/2026

A fun morning in the garden on Saturday. ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Thank you, Maureen, for bringing containers!

This weather! Fantastic. Today’s donation of greens went to at 19th and South, and a container of tomatoes went to a ne...
09/08/2026

This weather! Fantastic. Today’s donation of greens went to at 19th and South, and a container of tomatoes went to a neighbor we passed on the street. Know your gardeners! 😊

Play “Lion King” Circle of Life chant here.
09/05/2026

Play “Lion King” Circle of Life chant here.

Beautiful holiday weekend Saturday! We weeded, we trimmed and tied, we harvested, AND we donated to the 19th and South c...
09/05/2026

Beautiful holiday weekend Saturday! We weeded, we trimmed and tied, we harvested, AND we donated to the 19th and South community fridge. ❤️🌞😊

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1910 Fitzwater Street
Philadelphia, PA
19146

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 1pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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(215) 735-7273

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