Ruth Bennett Community Farm

05/26/2026

🌿 Free native plants will be available during this Thursday’s distribution! Big thanks to Partnership for the Delaware Estuary for making this possible🪴

Support Pennsylvania wildlife with native plants in your yard.

Receive free native plants at Ruth Bennett Community Farm this Thursday, May 28, from 1 - 3 p.m., and at Crozier Library Saturday, June 6, from 10 - 11 a.m.

Special thanks to the City of Chester Grant Program for supporting this initiative!
City of Chester, PA Government
Ruth Bennett Community Farm J. Lewis Crozer Library

05/09/2026

Ruth Bennett Community Farm’s Free Produce Box Distribution is back! Join us every other Thursday from 1PM–3PM, starting May 14th through November, for free fresh local produce. We hope to see you there! 🌱

05/07/2026

May 14th (next Thursday!) will kick off this year’s bi-weekly distribution of free produce boxes at the Ruth Bennett Community Farm .

Members of the community can stop by the farm between 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on May 14th to pick up a free box filled with fresh, seasonal produce.

Find other upcoming dates for food distribution here: https://www.ruthbennettcommunityfarm.org/events

05/05/2026

Foundation for Delaware County’s annual events are taking place this week!

The closing celebration will take place on the evening of May 7th from 5 to 8 p.m. at the WSFS Bank Sportsplex in Chester, PA. There will be food, drinks, games, live music, family-friendly fun, and more.

Keep an eye out for RBCF's Joe Joe at the closing celebration!

Donations to the farm support our free produce box distributions, which provide over 40,000 pounds of fresh produce annually to the community. If you would like to support this work, you can donate to the farm here: https://bit.ly/4esF2qz
Your support means the world to us!

05/02/2026

05/02/2026

It’s growing season for the crops at Ruth Bennett Farm and also for the volunteers who work the land.

03/12/2026

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Join Corrie Spellman-Lopez for a hands-on workshop to learn how to propagation woody ornamental plants.

03/05/2026

Happy (almost) spring! Join us next Wednesday to kick off the season with our first pruning workshop of the season.

Introduction to fruit tree winter pruning with hands-on practice.

12/03/2025

Join us for one last harvest hurrah tomorrow from 1-3PM! As part of our last food distribution day of the 2025 growing season, we are sending out a very short survey link below to help our team learn more about what worked and what other programming we can provide the community next growing season.

https://forms.gle/SdJXXwuqyyUuNMSL9

Please help us grow with you by completing this survey by tomorrow and also be entered to win one of 5 prizes including RBCF honey, T-shirts, and gorgeous festive wreaths, like the ones pictured above!

As a reminder, our last food distribution is tomorrow, Thursday, December 4th from 1pm-3pm to grab one final haul of seasonal produce!

This week's box will be filled with eggs, a mixed variety of cheeses, sourdough bread, crimson crisp apples, broccoli, squash, collards, turnips, napa cabbage, baby arugula, carrots, daikon radish, bosc pears, and flat leaf parsley.

Have a peaceful holiday season and a happy and healthy new year! We look forward to serving the community again in 2026!

Many thanks to our sponsors Philly Foodworks Chester Housing Authority The Foundation for Delaware County's Rapid Response Fund, The W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, and The Leo & Peggy Pierce Family Foundation.

12/02/2025

Join us this Thursday for our last food Distribution Day of the season! Thank you to the community of Chester. We are proud to serve you throughout the year!

As always, each box is filled with fresh, local produce. Our distributions are entirely free to the community, and operate on a first-come, first-served basis.

Come by this Thursday, December 4th from 1pm-3pm to grab one final haul of seasonal produce!

This week's box will be filled with eggs, a mixed variety of cheeses, sourdough bread, crimson crisp apples, broccoli, squash, collards, turnips, napa cabbage, baby arugula, carrots, daikon radish, bosc pears, and flat leaf parsley.

Please help spread the word by liking, commenting and most importantly sharing this post far and wide.

Have a peaceful holiday season and a happy and healthy new year! We look forward to serving the community again in 2026!

Many thanks to our sponsors Philly Foodworks Chester Housing Authority The Foundation for Delaware County's Rapid Response Fund, The W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, and The Leo & Peggy Pierce Family Foundation.

11/18/2025

Join us this Thursday for our 2nd to last food Distribution Day of the season! We will have one last distribution on December 4th. More to come about that soon! We are proud to serve the residents of Chester throughout the year.

Each box is filled with fresh, local produce. Please note that our distributions are entirely free, and operate on a first-come, first-served basis.

Come by this Thursday, November 20th from 1pm-3pm to grab some seasonal produce for your Thanksgiving holiday!

This week's box will be filled with eggs, sourdough bread, yukon gold potatoes, sweet potatoes, yellow onions, cranberries, brussels sprouts, collard greens, fuiji apples, pink lady apples, and Shenandoah pears.

Please help spread the word by liking, commenting and most importantly sharing this post far and wide.

We can't wait to see you there!

Many thanks to our sponsors Philly Foodworks Chester Housing Authority The Foundation for Delaware County , The W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, and The Leo & Peggy Pierce Family Foundation.