(Left to right) Jesse Antonini, Eli Wenger and Patrick Walsh are joined by Antonini’s dog Buster near a whimsical cow statue on at Martha’s Community Farm, June 15.

Patrick Walsh, manager of Martha’s Choice Marketplace in Norristown, inspects plantings at the food pantry’s newly created community farm in Audubon, June 15.

Jesse Antonini, manager of Martha’s Community Farm in Audubon, examines a flowering plant in one of the many sections of the 9.5-acre spread, June 15.

Jesse Antonini, manager of Martha’s Community Farm in Audubon, harvests early fruit from a tree, June 15. Operated by archdiocesan Catholic Social Services (CSS), the farm is helping to stock the agency’s Martha’s Choice Marketplace in Norristown, while providing partnership and volunteer opportunities for archdiocesan parishes, nonprofits, colleges, entrepreneurs and area faith communities.

Buster, the farm mascot, inspects the 9.5 acres between naps and meals.

Farm manager Jesse Antonini examines the progress of a fruit crop at Martha’s Community Farm in Audubon, June 15.

Manager Jesse Antonini checks on the status of a new tea garden at Martha’s Community Farm, which was seeded by Schwenksville-based OMA Herbal Teas.

Art crafted by volunteers is an integral part of the farm.

Eli Wenger, Jesse Antonini and Patrick Walsh survey the grounds of Martha’s Community Farm, located on the property of the former St. Gabriel’s Hall in Audubon. The hall’s iconic tower is visible in the background.

Handmade art by volunteers is essential to the farm’s mission of creating “light and growth,” said manager Jesse Antonini.

Patrick Walsh, Eli Wenger and Jesse Antonini are seen through a vine-covered archway at Martha’s Community Farm in Audubon, June 15.

A stone friar watches over a soon-to-be-cultivated patch at Martha’s Community Farm in Audubon, a reminder of when the 9.5 acre spread was home to the Mitchell Program at the former St. Gabriel’s Hall.