Neighborhood Land Power Project (formerly Urban Tree Connection) works with West Philadelphia’s Haddington neighborhood residents to develop community-driven greening and gardening projects on vacant land. The aim is to cultivate community leadership, improve community health, and create a local, sustainable food system. Over the past 25 years, NLPP has redeveloped 29 vacant lots, totaling more than 86,000 square feet of land for communal growing and gathering, sustainable food production and distribution, and multigenerational health and wellness education. NLPP has been at the forefront of urban farming and land reclamation movements in Philadelphia, pioneering key tools for the legal reclamation of abandoned properties.

Sponsored by the Environmental Justice Committee