The Hilltop Urban Farm, a 23-acre urban farm nonprofit in the City of Pittsburgh, is accepting applications from experienced urban farmers to farm 5.75 rehabilitated urban acres under its 2019 Pilot Farmer Incubation Program.

The deadline for applications is February 1.

Since 2017, Hilltop Urban Farm has rehabilitated 5.75 urban acres for farming purposes, completing a soil rebuilding process that included cover crop rotations and compost amendments.

The 2019 Pilot Program is a workforce development program for small-scale organic urban farm enterprises that seeks to grow farmers and grow food.

In Allegheny County, the average age of a farmer is nearly 60 years old, and local farmers are transitioning out of farming. The Program is designed to train a new generation of farmers, focused on the urban core of the City of Pittsburgh.

Participants of the 2019 Pilot Program will be provided access to land and farming amenities and will learn farm business management skills and food growing techniques. Once under full production, FIP farmers at Hilltop Urban Farm will quadruple the amount of produce grown within the City of Pittsburgh.

Site Tour/Workshop

Two local events will be hosted by Hilltop Urban Farm to support applicants--

-- January 13: Site Tour and Information Session at Hilltop Urban Farm from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at 700 Cresswell Street in Pittsburgh; and

-- January 16: Application Working Session from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at 831 E Warrington Avenue, Floor 2 in Pittsburgh.

Click Here to download an application.

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