Daily News | The collapse of Greensgrow, Philly’s nonprofit farm, exposes years of worker allegations
On July 6, a group of workers at Greensgrow, a beloved urban farm and garden center with a 25-year legacy in Philadelphia’s Kensington section, decided it was now or never.According to the nonprofit’s executive director, Erin Mooney, their timing could not have been worse.
“There’s no future when you have no money in your bank account,” said Mooney, a veteran PR professional who joined Greensgrow in March. “I can’t, as an executive director, feel at all comfortable living in a margin where I can’t pay anyone.” Alex Riccio, an organizer with the Philadelphia Joint Board Workers United, which represented the unit, said it’s understandable if, as he was told, the “financial situation of the company is so bleak that they have to permanently close their doors in less than two weeks.”
. So did retail sales from the farmstand and garden center. And grants and loans supported expanding efforts that included food access and nutrition education for low-income families, and a community kitchen in a nearby church., Cooper said, much of the institutional knowledge was lost. On her first day on the job in March, Mooney found a stack of subpoena papers on her desk from a lawsuit over a forklift accident from a few years back. According to then-staffer Sammy Sirois, an employee was working on a forklift tire when it exploded, resulting in a traumatic brain injury and a broken elbow. Cooper said staff received training after the incident.
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