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GH Advertising was an incredible team to host at HUF. Lots of smiles, positive energy, and capable beings! GH worked to cardboard and mulch the final 10 pathways in the "vining" section of the field. Today we harvested the second batch of zucchini from that area, with pumpkins and watermelons growing alongside the zuccs! THANK YOU! THANK YOU, GH Advertising!!
.usa Pittsburgh office came through in the heatwave! Wow. A BIG HUF THANK YOU to each and everyone of the BDO team members who w**ded multiple pepper rows, smiled through the sweat, and lifted our spirits as they recognized the significant leaps HUF has taken since BDO first volunteered in 2022. Not to mention, broke down and moved all of the sad picnic tables . . . cleaned up around the youth farm container and more.
HUF LOVES YOU, BDO!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. ❤️
Hilltop Alliance!
Forever HUF's partner in the Hilltop. Thanks for visiting today and for all the support and care you provide Hilltop Urban Farm. We love you.
A BIG HUF THANK YOU to Pittsburgh H20 for volunteering at Hilltop Urban Farm last Friday. Together, we reinforced the Community Farm Plot fenceline, w**ded the greenbean row, and constructed shade structured for over picnic tables.
HUF Board member made the connection and it was a day full of laughter, sunshine and great efforts.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU to all involved. ❤️
HUF is hiring! The Farmer Incubation Program Manager job is now posted. Join the HUF team and help strengthen an incubator program that supports first generation farmers in SWPA; removing barriers of land access, tools, machinery, and support.
Learn more here:
Organization Overview Hilltop Urban Farm (HUF), envisions revitalized urban neighborhoods where abundant, fresh, and healthy...
We love you, Rob Marshall! Thanks for this generous donation of herbs to the HUF Youth Farm! XO ❤️!
THANK YOU for planting a ton of nightshades in the HUF Community Farm Plot! The evening volunteer event was so full that all I took was a picture of the after party.
HUF is beyong grateful for your partnership and support! ❤️
How great was Saturday's Open Volunteer event?!?! Wowza. A BIG HUF THANK YOU to , , MVP meet up group, and all our friends and neighbors who showed up and completed all the tasks!!! We love getting to work with community members and can't thank you enough for supporting the HUF mission.
YOU ARE THE BEST. ❤️
A BIG HUF THANK YOU to Bidwell Training Center's newest cohort for their dedication to the health of the HUF community orchard. Together they w**ded, composted, and mulched! They string trimmed! They reinforced fencing! And most importantly they brought good energy and great care to their work.
THANK YOU!!
City of Bridges High School held their spring Community Day at Hilltop Urban Farm, volunteering their time and energy to mulch the pathways of the community farm plot and (of course) w**d pathways in preparation of more mulch. A BIG HUF THANK YOU TO ALL INVOLVED! Students, faculty, and parent chaperones were incredibly kind, enthusiastic, and full of great questions. We loved our time together ❤️.
Clearing pathways, blazing trails with . THANKS SO MUCH to all the students, staff, and awesome Amanda and Jasmine for coordinating and supporting the student's great work!!
Plenty of springtime tasks to keep us moving at Hilltop Urban Farm! Hats off to Director of Farm Operations and Land Management, Liz, for keeping the Community Farm Plot on track. Can't wait to share the bounty with our neighbors. ❤️
A BIG HUF THANK YOU to seniors for really showing up today!
20 trees planted ✔️
Youth Orchard watered and mulched ✔️
12 blueberries and 1 hugelkultur w**ded ✔️
Your efforts are invaluable! THANK YOU!! ❤️
And thanks to our friends for your generosity of time and smiles. It was a great day together!
Decades before the first Earth Day in 1970, Pittsburgh was home to a few perceptive dreamers envisioning a cleaner, greener future.
Thanks for visiting!
What an incredible day to work outside! 🌱
Join us April 12 for 2-wheel tractor training!
Get hands-on training with the BCS walk-behind tractor and learn how to integrate this equipment into your production plan.
Winter sowing success with Afterschool program! ❤️
Here comes Spring, ready or not.
Love is in the air, and the air is warming up (prematurely!), which means open volunteer events are just around the corner at Hilltop Urban Farm. HUF invites you to join the fun the third Saturday of each month starting in April, 9 am - 12 pm.
All tools, gloves, staff support, and snacks provided. ❤️
We'd love to see you! 🧡
Saturday was a beautiful day to learn together! A BIG HUF THANK YOU to and for orchestrating a fantastic Fruit Tree Pruning 101 workshop. To everyone who participated, we're wishing you happy, healthy trees! 🍎 🍏
Dreaming and planning for Spring starts with seed inventorying and testing if seeds are viable. These marigolds say, "YES! WE ARE VIABLE!! LET'S GROW!"
Here's hoping your seeds are too and you're feeling prepared as we head into the 2024 growing season. ❤️
Thank you Abiding Missions for all you do! Neighbor Makers Food Pantry every week, Thursdays 12-2pm.
Thank you for a great small engine workshop this week at Hilltop Urban Farm. SG was a wonderful instructor and built our confidence and understanding of 2 stroke and 4 stroke machines. A BIG HUF THANK YOU to all who participated.
Keep your engines clean! ❤️
HUF LOVES YOU! ❤️
Whole-heartedly Hilltop Urban Farm appreciates all that you did to make the 2023 growing season such a huge success. From seeding trays, planting, maintaining the CFP, ipm, harvesting, washing & packing, delivering, watering orchards and webbings, working with volunteers . . . and the list goes on.
THANK YOU, OLIVE! You brought skills, knowledge, and joy to the Farm Laborer position and to a season we won't soon forget.
CONGRATULATIONS, NATALIE! 🥳 is the October recipient of the Hilltop Urban Farm FIP's most prestigious Golden Trowel award! Natalie is a flower farmer and is wrapping up her first growing season at HUF. She is eager to tackle year two, taking all of the lessons learned forward. Natalie is kind, smart, responsive to emails -- and brings a can-do attitude to the Farm, even when she is exhausted. Congratulations, Natalie! We love you. ❤️
W0W! When these beautiful people show up, they show up! A BIG HUF THANK YOU to @ UPMC medical students +HUF board member, Tom D. & Sara, who helped remove vegetation from the Youth Farm raised beds, mulch 58 blueberry bushes, and move a very large (smelly) silage tarp.
W0W! We checked all those winter-prep to dos off of the list in less than 90 minutes. THANK YOU ONE AND ALL.
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The cooler temperatures this week did not stop Corporate Strategy team from picking rocks and removing tree stumps. A BIG HUF THANK YOU to everyone who showed up and made the load that much lighter. Hilltop Urban Farm could not exist without community. ❤️ THANK YOU!
And they're back 😀 . . . A BIG HUF THANK YOU to for once again bringing the new AEO hires to volunteer at Hilltop Urban Farm. It was a pleasure to work alongside these kind folks and learn how they found their way to Pittsburgh. We wish you all the best in your new careers, and thank you for your time and good energy! ❤️!
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Pittsburgh, PA
15210
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