Tours
Warning: This schedule for 2012 is in process.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Urban Bike Tour LIMITED TO 25; PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
The first ever CCMA Urban Farm Bike Tour will start at 10 AM on Thursday, June 14 at the Marriot Hotel (where the conference is being held). It will end up back at the hotel around 5 pm, after 25 miles of biking through Philadelphia’s wild and wooly neighborhoods, visiting five urban farms, and tipping back a few at a local microbrewery.
Western Suburbs Co-op & Urban Farm Tour
- First stop: Chester Food Cooperative
- Second stop: Swarthmore Food Cooperative
- Third stop: Mill Creek Urban Farm
- Fourth Stop: Mariposa Food Cooperative
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Mural Arts and Mansions Tour
A rolling tour where you’ll get a sample of the thousands of murals painted onto exterior walls throughout Philadelphia. What started as the Philadelphia anti-graffiti network has grown into an internationally recognized community revitalization program, where art is the medium that brings together disparate and diverse neighborhoods to collaborate and make art that is meaningful. Along the way we’ll drive past many of the historic houses and mansions with pre-revolutionary war history and get treated to a history lesson on the foundations of Philadelphia and the United States.
Northwest Philadelphia Co-op, Urban Farm & Food Program Tour
- First Stop: Weavers Way Chestnut Hill location
- Second Stop: Weavers Way Mort Brooks Memorial Farm on the grounds of Awbury Arboretum
- Third Stop: Weavers Way Mt Airy
- Fourth Stop: SHARE Food Program & Nice Roots Farm
South Philadelphia Wholesale & Retail Food Markets & Farm
- First Stop: Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market
- Second Stop: The Italian Market
- Third Stop: Greensgrow Farms
Walking Tours:
- Chinatown & Restaurant Tour (limited space)
- Historic Philadelphia Tour
- Benjamin Franklin Parkway Museums Tour
- Experience the Boss & the Constitution
Reading Terminal Market Tour
Get a behind the scenes tour of how this massive market place operates and its vibrant history. This walking tour is limited to 30 people.
