food

From Food Desert to Urban Oasis

We hear a lot about food deserts that impact many of our urban communities throughout the United States. At Urban Patch we are developing an initiative that will take on this critical issue with our local community and local farmers.  As we develop the program we hope to make a real and immediate impact on […]

Indy Star: Inspiring urban neighborhoods is a family affair

Inspiring urban neighborhoods is a family affair By Erika D. Smith “It really started with this picture of my grandfather.” Justin Moore fished around in the pocket of his suit jacket for his smartphone. He tapped the screen a few times, and found a black and white photo of a distinguished-looking, balding black man. The […]

Community Garden 2.0

Urban Patch has helped to start the Saint Nicholas Miracle Garden in Harlem.  During Earth Week the group of community members received their approval to turn a vacant city-owned lot into one of the city’s newest Green Thumb sites, and had their first work day cleaning up the garden. The site is small (like everything in […]

Past Forward: Harlem Edition – new urban garden project underway

Urban Patch has been working with community members and 596 Acres to create a new community garden in Central Harlem in New York City.  The garden is currently a vacant city-owned site, but new garden member Vaughn Wallace found some research that the site was a garden over fifty years ago and was, in fact, the […]

Winter Solstice Open House Recap

photos by George VanSickles On Friday, December 21, 2012, the Urban Patch and Fall Creek Gardens hosted their Winter Solstice Open House at the Urban Patch’s Delaware Project in Historic Meridian Park.  The event celebrated a year of the two organizations’ collaboration in the Mapleton-Fall Creek area to help promote community gardening, nutrition, self-help, and urban revitalization.  The […]

Stone Soup Kitchen Winter Canning Workshop Recap

Urban Patch and Fall Creek Gardens recently hosted our December canning workshop.  Our participants made Grape Jelly , Strawberry Jam, Apple Marmalade to USDA standards for use at home or as holiday gifts.  

Our History: Past Forward

Urban Patch’s Stone Soup Kitchen provides workshops to teach people in the inner city to prepare and preserve their own food.  The project is a legacy to the work of the Urban Patch’s founders’ patriarch, Albert A. Moore, Agricultural Director for the Flanner House during the 1940’s.  In the photo below, Mr. Moore demonstrates techniques for preserving […]

Stone Soup Kitchen: Pumpkin-to-Pie Cooking Workshop on November 17th

Tis the season…for holiday baking! Before we leave the garden harvest behind for all practical purposes, we have one more way to enjoy the bounty of autumn: Learn how to simple it is to take a pumpkin and end up with a delicious pie to share with your family this Thanksgiving! The Urban Patch is partnering […]

Stone Soup Kitchen: Jam, Jelly, and Marmalade – Make Your Own Holiday Gifts on December 8th

What better way to brighten your pantry shelves than by making your own jams, jellies, and marmalades to enjoy and share? Just in time for the holidays, please join us and our partner, the Fall Creek Gardens, at Broadway United Methodist Church to learn how to preserve fruits with three different techniques: preparing and canning […]

Urban Patch will be at Big Car’s Family Day on October 20th

Urban Patch will be at Big Car’s family day to share our work and talk about our Stone Soup Kitchen’s canning workshops. Celebrate the harvest with us at Family Fun Day! Free Event at Service Center offers fun for everyone Our raised bed urban garden in the parking lot at Service Center yielded cucumbers, greens, […]