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Ahimsa House Philly Community Garden

Preserve educational healing green space in West Philly, Save our community garden from development!

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Ahimsa House Philly Community Garden

Ahimsa House Philly Community Garden

Ahimsa House Philly Community Garden

Ahimsa House Philly Community Garden

Ahimsa House Philly Community Garden

Preserve educational healing green space in West Philly, Save our community garden from development!

Preserve educational healing green space in West Philly, Save our community garden from development!

Preserve educational healing green space in West Philly, Save our community garden from development!

Preserve educational healing green space in West Philly, Save our community garden from development!

Meg Ferrigno
Meg Ferrigno
Meg Ferrigno
Meg Ferrigno
1 Campaign |
Philadelphia, United States
$4,602 USD 68 backers
30% of $15,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

THE AHIMSA HOUSE PHILLY COMMUNITY GARDEN BEGAN when 5007 cedar ave was purchased in 2011 with $15,000 that the city of Philadelphia granted Margaret Ferrigno for a wrongful arrest by PPD. After a long search for a large space with a neighboring vacant lot in Cedar Park, she bought 5007 in order to open a center for nonviolence and had the vision to use the vacant 5005 property as a community garden. The neighbors told Margaret that she would be responsible for the upkeep of 5005 and she quickly turned the vacant land into a garden. The garden feeds many neighbors, runs at-risk-youth educational programs and herbalism workshops and provides a green space for people to take time out and connect with mother earth. Margaret and the community have invested thousands of dollars into amending the soil, planting perennials and annual crops and offered thousands of hours of sweat equity.

5007 Cedar and 5005 cedar (www.ahimsahousephilly.org) has been serving the community as a space to share practices of peace since 2012. Each day there are two to three free yoga, dance, music and meditation classes. The garden is a big part of our mission and benefits many people by providing human-nature connection and fresh organic food! 

In 2012 Margaret followed Councilwoman Blackwell's advice to enter the lot into shariff's sale, she put a down payment of $800 on the property and was to be given first bid, as the adjacent house owner and caretaker of the property. A developer then bought the property out from under the shariff's sale and would not consider Margaret's offers to purchase the property. He then sold the property at $62,000. 

After recognizing the importance of the garden to the community and a week long change.org campaign, the developer is willing to sell the property for $80,000 if the sale can be completed in MARCH 2015. Upon obtaining the property Margaret will turn the space into aLand Trustto ensure that it remainsgreen spacefor the future.

This property is worth more than money. This property is a piece of community development, the type of development that MLK, Gandhi and other nonviolent revolutionaries encouraged.

Please honor our work, the earth and the struggle to rise above economic violence, save the ahimsa house garden!

WE ARE ONLY ASKING $15,000 FOR THIS CAMPAIGN-Our goal is ultimately $80,000, the beneficiaries and those who know and use our garden are not rich and we do understand that many people can only contribute $10-$25. but if 800 people do that its PERFECT! THIS GARDEN WILL BE TURNED INTO A LAND TRUST, please support our healing space!

Please don't stop at $ either! This is a community garden and we love others to come garden, share seeds, wisdom and stories. COME ENJOY THE SPACE WITH US <3

With much gratitude,

Margaret Ferrigno & Ahimsa House Philly Crew

www.ahimsahousephilly.org

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AHIMSA FLOWER BOUGUET

$10 USD
a bouquet of flowers from the summer garden! or a pressed flower thank you gift- if you are outside of our bicycle delivery zone!
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
8 claimed

AHIMSA FRUITS & FLOWERS

$25 USD
a bouquet of flowers and an assortment of fresh organic veggies (and maybe berries or even FIGS!!!) or a pressed flower thank you gift- if you are outside of our bicycle delivery zone!
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
12 claimed

AHIMSA 3 COURSE DINNER

$50 USD
A 3 course, organic, garden grown dinner for 2 in the yurt! or- a pressed flower thank you gift if you can't come to philly!
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
7 claimed

PRIVATE HERBAL HOT TUB PARTY

$75 USD
a private wood fired hot tub party! yep just you and your friends and herbs from the garden!! or- a pressed flower &amp; herbal tincture thank you gift if you can't come to philly!
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June 2015
5 claimed

DINNER & HOT TUB PARTY

$150 USD
a wood fired hot tub party! yep you and your friends and herbs from the garden!! and a 3 course, organic, garden grown dinner for 2 in the yurt! or- a pressed flower thank you gift if you can't come to philly! and your name painted into the mural on the side of the house
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June 2015
0 claimed

YURT SLEEP OVER!

$500 USD
A private, dinner wood fired hot tub yurt sleep over party with breakfast! Meals right from the garden! or- a pressed flower thank you gift (wayy better than what we would give if you only gave $100). But only if you can't come to philly to have an awesome little party. plus your name will be mentioned in the mural on the side of the house!
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June 2015
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CHOOSE THE GARDEN MURAL DESIGN

$1,000 USD
Pick the design for the garden mural!!! yeah! we will be painting the side of the house and you will have the say in what it looks like- you could even incorporate your favorite things into the design! Your name will be up there as well! oh and you get everything listed above too!
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August 2015
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EVERYTHING + 2015 GARDEN SHARE

$5,000 USD
You get everything listed above PLUS you will get shares from the garden at every 2015 harvest! If you are contributing from a distance we will be sending you preserves from the harvest at the end of the season, plus salves, tinctures and other things our free workshops produce!
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September 2015
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2015 AHIMSA YURT ACCESS

$10,000 USD
ou can reserve the yurt for your weekend get-a-ways anytime is 2015 (it will go back up this spring when we acquire the property!)! And we will throw an amazing dinner party &amp; community celebration in your honor! For those far away, you will get an amazing assortment of saved organic seeds from the garden, preserves, salves, tinctures, as well as some beautiful artwork produced in the garden. Of course your name goes on the wall- heck we'll paint your pets' face on the wall!
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September 2015
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