regenerating the life and food web

Hazelwood Urban Gardens was created to facilitate an increase in the amount of local food grown cooperatively in this Pittsburgh neighborhood. It is a part of continuing work to regenerate the local ecosystem so damaged by Pittsburgh's role in the Industrial Revolution. Some aspects of our history must be returned to, such as that almost all food used to be grown locally, prepared/processed locally, and consumed locally. And organic waste material was returned to the Earth. The present troubles the planet finds itself in make clear we have to return to this aspect of our past.

Hazelwood now has a farmstand. We are working toward a community grocery/food co-op. By fits and starts we have been struggling toward a farmers market. This spring we will have a permaculture planting by the newly formed Pittsburgh Food Forests. And Hazelwood Urban Gardens is working to organize cooperatively run gardens to grow healthy food to distribute locally.