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Penrose Strawbridge House

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Organic Community Garden at the Penrose Strawbridge House

photo of Marion harvesting squash

We have a small organic community garden at the Penrose Strawbridge House than we cultivate from the spring into the fall.

The end of March is time to start planting our vegetable and flower gardens. We tilled the field in the fall and added good compost, and will till it again in April.

We will then plant early vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, peas and chard.



Any HPHA member can plant their own little farm or just come out and help. Please Contact Us if you'd like to join head gardener Marion Heckler and be a farmer and grow your own delicious, organic produce.

What's New in the Garden

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We're getting the organic garden ready for the 2013 growing season...

and we may be having a full scale organic farm here at the Penrose Strawbridge House soon. Stay tuned for more news





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8/11/2012 - Its been a hot summer but seems that the tomatoes in our organic garden sure do like it. These big juicy organic tomatoes were harvested from our garden and served at our 2012 Summer Picnic





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4/7/2012 - This spring we moved the fences to nearly double the size of the garden to 3528 square feet.

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Garden Harvest
Head gardener Marion with one of our volunteers harvesting some squash from the organic garden at the Penrose Strawbridge houe
9/2/2011
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Oganic Garden tilled
4/6/2013
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Tomatoes from our Garden 2012
Its been a hot summer but seems that the tomatoes in our organic garden sure do like it. These big juicy organic tomatoes were harvested from our garden and served at our 2012 Summer Picnic
8/11/2012
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Enlarging Garden 2012
We moved the fences back in 2012 to nearly double the size of the garden to 3528 sf
4/7/2012

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photo of fence around organic garden at Penrose Strawbridge House
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photo of young girl in garden with row of flowers along wall in front of her and house with sun room behind
photo of gateway in the middle of a stone wall with stone privy at left end of wall
photo of gateway in the middle of a stone wall with stone privy at left end of wall
photo of Margaret Strawbridge and Claury Thomas standing in front of building with large chimney and large bushes around the chimney
photo of Lynn digging in the garden
photo of tomatoes served on plate
photo of tilled garden
photo of tilled garden
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Garden Harvest
Head gardener Marion with one of our volunteers harvesting some squash from the organic garden at the Penrose Strawbridge houe
| 9/2/2011
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| 9/2/2011
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| 9/2/2011
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Expanding the Garden
We moved the fences back today to nearly double the size of the garden to 3500 square feet (42 x 84)
| 4/7/2012
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Garden Tilled 2012
It took a lot of work from our crew of volunteers but the new larger garden is now tilled and the planting has begun
| 4/28/2012
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Mary McAndrews + Peter
friends of the Strawbridges photographed in the garden. Sunroof visible in background to the right. We believe this was added by the Strawbridges in the 1920s
| 1939 Summer
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photo of young girl in garden with row of flowers along wall in front of her and house with sun room behind
Young Girl in Garden
unidentified young girl in the Strawbridge garden . Sun room is show in the background
| 1939 Summer
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Garden Gate
Gate from the barnyard to the flower garden on the south side of the Penrose Strawbridge House. Barnyard is separated from the garden by a stone wall. At the left end of the wall is a stone privy
| 6/19/2012
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Garden Gate and Privy
Stone Privy at far end of stone wall separating the barnyard from the flower garden on the south side of the Penrose Strawbridge House. Graeme Park is through the trees
| 6/19/2012
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Margaret Strawbridge and Claury Thomas
Margaret Strawbridge and Claury Thomas standing in the garden on the side of the house
June 1959
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Lynn in the Garden
one of our farmers Lynn hard at work in our organic garden
| 6/23/2012
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Tomatoes from our Garden 2012
Its been a hot summer but seems that the tomatoes in our organic garden sure do like it. These big juicy organic tomatoes were harvested from our garden and served at our 2012 Summer Picnic
| 8/11/2012
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Oganic Garden tilled
| 4/6/2013
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Oganic Garden tilled with Volunteers
| 4/6/2013
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