West View Urban Farm

01/05/2025

Have you heard of beer flights? Well, Terri Tutich suggested we host a pot luck with soup flights! Join us next Saturday at West View Hub Works and samples soups made by community members.

12/14/2024

Friendly reminder: Join us tomorrow evening for dinner and take in a show. Please share with anyone you know struggling with food access. Come have a meal with us!

12/08/2024

Our next potluck is less than 1 week away! This time we are asking for you to share holiday favorites.

Also, that same night beginning at 7 pm, Steel City Shakespeare Center is presenting A Christmas Carol in Hub Works!

Consider making a night of it with good food, fine people, and entertainment! See SCSC for ticket information.

12/07/2024

K&J Comics and Games is hosting an event on Dec 15th, and our farm is the nonprofit benefiting from their kindness. We love this local shop! Please consider shopping there for your comic book and graphic novel loving nerds in your life! ❤️

11/24/2024

We may not be growing food right now, but we can still give to the community. Introducing our Mutual Aid Library. It is currently stocked with some food, first aid kits, and hygiene products. We will stock it as we can, and we encourage you to join us. Guidelines are provided inside the library, and we will share them online soon. This is one small gesture to help our neighbors. Feel free to join us! If you are in need, the library is here for you!

11/17/2024

Thank you to those who joined us last night at West View HUB for our first indoor potluck. There was root veggies, cheesey potatoes, turkey chili, and butternut squash soup - all community made!

We will be hosting our next potluck in December. Details to come. We hope you will join us!

11/16/2024

For those of you who still have leaves… Help us out. Thank you!

11/11/2024

Whatcha doing early Saturday night? Join us at Hub Works for a fall-themed potluck. This is a continuation of our monthly potluck at the farm. We are moving it indoors while it is cooler outside. Many thanks to the West View HUB for letting us use the space until it warms up again.

11/02/2024

West View HUB is collecting food for its Thanksgiving food distribution. Details below. You are welcome to drop your donations off at the farm while we are there tomorrow (Sunday), and we will drop your donations off for you.

We know food prices are high. If you are struggling to make ends meet, the Hub has a food distribution every Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon.

11/01/2024

Join West View Urban Farm this Sunday as we tidy up the farm and let it have a season of rest. We will have coffee and donuts. Bring sharp pruning shears if you want to help chop up plants for the compost bin!

10/20/2024

Join us Monday around 5PM if you want to pick some tomatoes! There are a lot still, and we are working to ripen them up paper bag style!

10/14/2024

Encouraging results from this Virginia-based Food Is Medicine program.

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10/11/2024

Second Saturday potluck tomorrow night at the farm beginning at 5:30. Theme: soup! Please join us! We will have a couple of soups. Bring sides or just your friendly faces!

10/02/2024

Lots harvested tonight and heading to the food pantry tomorrow!

10/02/2024

Celebrate World Food Day on October 16th! Some lovely people are coordinating this event, and we hope you will join in the celebration!

09/14/2024

Adding some photos taken since June 2023 to show the progress we have made so far. We are still a young farm, and we are learning every day! I'm so grateful for the volunteer support we have received, and as well as to Grow Pittsburgh for providing soil and compost for our newest bed. Thank you, all!

If you come out today for the Urban Farm Tour, you will see how far we have come from what was a sad, abandoned property. Perhaps you will consider joining us as we continue to grow food for our community.

09/12/2024

It's happening this Saturday between 10 AM and 3 PM. We will be doing tours of the farm throughout the day, and Jessica Futrell will be doing a story time at 11 AM, Noon, and 1 PM.

Please come by 148 Georgetown Ave, 15229 and see what we have done to a neglected property since April 2023. We can tell you about our mission and a little bit about our vision for the Casper Reel cabin, which was completed in 1794. (It needs a lot of love, ya'll!)

Tickets are on a sliding scale, and all of the money raised supports the an urban growers scholarship fund.

Note: If you are driving, PLEASE park on Center Ave and walk over. We will have signage directing you to street park and to the farm. Our farm is in a residential area, and we want to keep our neighbor friends happy!!!

Tix -> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pittsburgh-urban-farm-tour-2024-tickets-953547675767