This week’s Plant Power Hour is basil! Join us this Wednesday at the Kensington Engagement Center, learn about basil, and make pesto with us!

The 24th Police District will be holding a block party today, July 23rd on the 1800-1900 blocks of Somerset St from 10AM-2PM. Be sure to plan in advance as this will result in closures to traffic on Somerset from Kensington Avenue to Frankford Avenue until around 6PM.

Join in to tell your legislators: Fund SEPTA and protect public transit across PA! Tomorrow, August 6th at 11AM, @transit4allpa, Transit Forward Philadelphia, @cleanaircouncil, and @senatorsaval on will be rallying at the North Apron of City Hall for transit funding that keeps SEPTA running.

Join NKCDC and Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts at noon on August 21st for another legal information session at the Kensington Engagement Center! This month’s topic will be the family court system. To register for the workshop with PMC, click here: pmconline.org/events/pmc-sha…

Dates are still available to rent the NKCDC Garden Center this August and September! If you’d like to host your next family event, vendor market or community gathering at the garden center on the corner of Frankford Ave and Berks St, click the link below: nkcdc.org/business-arts/…

Our team was joined by the @ccpedu at the Kensington Engagement Center today for a workshop on emotional intelligence! This professional development opportunity is part of our ongoing commitment to be a trauma-informed and equity-focused organization. Thank you to @ccpedu!

Join NKCDC’s Urban Agriculture Program Manager, Catherine Reuter, for a free weekly urban botany class on Tuesdays at the Former Greensgrow Farms, starting Tuesday, September 2nd! Interested in joining? RSVP here: signupgenius.com/go/10C054CAEAB…

NKCDC Housing Counselors will be holding homebuyer workshops for first-time home buyers in Philadelphia in September! Sign up for one of September Workshops by clicking here: eventbrite.com/e/first-time-h…

Join NKCDC’s Nourish team and CrossFit Renaissance for Nourish & Burn, a free nutrition education and workout class happening September 20th from 11AM-1PM at 3251 Cedar St! You can RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Thanks to funding from the Department of Commerce & City of Philadelphia Taking Care of Business program, NKCDC's Corridor Stewards work year-round to ensure the commercial corridors in Kensington remain clean. In August they bagged 644 bags of trash along the business corridors!

Join NKCDC’s Urban Agriculture Program Manager, Catherine, for another free urban botany class on Tuesday, September 16th at the Former Greensgrow Farms! Interested in joining? RSVP here: signupgenius.com/go/10C054CAEAB…

This just in! There are a handful of slots open for folks to earn a certificate of completion and stipend for participating in our People-First Housing Workshop Series this fall!

NKCDC’s Urban Agriculture and Community Gardening Initiative team is holding a free workshop on growing broccoli with DIY self-watering bucket planters! Join us at the Tusculum Gateway Garden on Saturday, September 20th from 2PM-3:30PM!

Join NKCDC’s Urban Agriculture Program Manager, Catherine Reuter, for another free weekly urban botany class next Tuesday, September 23rd at the Former Greensgrow Farms! Interested in joining? RSVP here: signupgenius.com/go/10C054CAEAB…

Join NKCDC’s Urban Agriculture team this fall at the Tusculum Gateway Garden to create some Art in the Garden! From September through October from 4-5:30PM we’ll be at Tusculum Gateway Garden creating potato stamps, fairy houses, butterfly masks and so much more!

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! NKCDC is celebrating by partnering with P&S Supermarket at 3003 Frankford Avenue, on culturally relevant food tastings. Last week, our SNAP-Ed team served up Haitian pikliz, spicy Salvadoran slaw, pickled red onions on tostones!

Next Tuesday we have another free urban botany class from our Urban Agriculture Program Manager, Catherine , at the Former Greensgrow Farms! Join us on Tuesday from 1PM-3PM! Interested in joining? RSVP here: signupgenius.com/go/10C054CAEAB…

Come to the former Greensgrow Farms next Tuesday for another free urban botany class, taught by our Urban Agriculture Program Manager, Catherine! This week we’ll be discussing green gentrification. Interested in joining? RSVP here: signupgenius.com/go/10C054CAEAB…

The Kensington Fall Garden Tour is October 11th from 2:30PM-4:45PM! This fall will feature 3 community gardens in Kensington! The Fall Garden Tour will all travel in one group, beginning at 2:30. Drop by and be in community on the Kensington Fall Garden Tour!

Next week we’ll be back at Tusculum Gateway Garden to make art in the garden! Join NKCDC’s Urban Agriculture team on Tuesday 10/7 from 4PM-5:30PM. We’ll be creating fairy and gnome houses and nature crowns!