Neighborhood Land Power Project

05/20/2026

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???

05/13/2026

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05/05/2026

04/27/2026

04/22/2026

EARTH DAY 2026

04/21/2026

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!

03/18/2026

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!

03/16/2026

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.

02/26/2026

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.

02/21/2026

Frederick McKinley Jones, 1893-1961, was an American inventor, businessman, and engineer, called the "Father of Refrigerated Transportation." Born in Kentucky, as a young adult he moved to Minnesota, where he gained skills as a mechanic on a large farm. Next, he served in an all-Black unit in World War I, where his mechanical talents were revealed, leading to his promotion to sergeant, and work as an electrician. Later, his advances in mobile refrigeration technology, saved many lives in WW II, by allowing blood, medicine, and food to be safely preserved and shipped for use at army hospitals, and on the battlefront. Jones worked in multiple fields, leading him to receive over 60 patents, an early being sound synchronization for movie projectors -as theaters moved from the silent film to the "talkie" era. He was cofounder of Thermo King. Jones was also a winner of the National Medal of Technology, and a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

02/14/2026

Beatrice Bethel Johnson - teacher, entrepreneur, mentor, community advocate - born in 1927, became the first Black librarian in the School District of Philadelphia in 1972. Beatrice Bethel Johnson studied teaching at Virginia's Hampton Institute, where she graduated in 1949. Her teaching career began at Martha Washington Elementary School in West Philadelphia in the 1950s. She graduated from Drexel University in 1972, with a master’s degree in library science. She was a 65+ year member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She served as chair of African American family festivals at Cobbs Creek Park and as a board member of the park’s Laura Sims Skate House. Johnson contributed local historical research to the U.S. Library of Congress, and discussed important civil rights issues with her pupils. Johnson was a longtime part of the West Philadelphia business community. She shared her love of books and reading with the children she taught, and was known for her unparalleled love, devotion, and commitment to forwarding and preserving knowledge of African American history.