On Thursday afternoons, visitors from throughout the city travel to Kensington to get fresh produce from an urban farmer's market. The farm's been raising gourmet lettuce and vegetables in Kensington for five years.

And it's fun for our neighborhood because we're the only neighborhood in this city that has a farm! A real working farm.

Sandy Salzman is director of the non-profit New Kensington Community Development Center. She says the urban farm is on top of a cleaned up brownfield site. And while the potentially hazardous chemicals are gone, she says all the farming takes place above-ground, using innovative tools like raised concrete beds and soil-free systems.

Because you don't know. I mean, you can clean it up, but there's still suspects, that there migh be something there that wasn't gotten out.

What comes from the site now are radishes, eggplants, beets, and lettuce. Farmer Mary Seton Corboy sells vegetables to local restaurants and community members. And on market day, the vegetables are joined by some other local delicacies.

For instance we carry perogies at our farm market, that I would not normally have thought about. It just came up one day. And this is a neighborhood that has a large polish, russian, eastern european... and yeah, I mean they're neighborhood made, perogies.

Corboy says she'd like to see more community farms, growing ethnic foods for the diverse residents of cities like Philadelphia.

More information and some pictures are available on the web at GreenWorks.tv. I'm Brad Linder.