With the Land Bank finally open for business, urban gardeners and farmers hope for legal protection against the City’s “Revoke Clause.” Hidden City contributor and Kensington farmer Nic Esposito digs deep into the issue

If you’re looking for holiday books with a Philly bent, Nathaniel Popkin has ten new ones–from art to essays to history, biography, and policy–to suit the readers on your list

Unpretentious, engaging, and fun, says landscape writer Nicole Juday, on the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s pop-up garden near Rittenhouse Square

In his latest “Walk the Walk” column, Joe Brin stumbles upon the folks at Urban Apiaries, Philadelphia’s pioneering urban beekeepers. But beekeeping, as he discovers, isn’t anything new in this city of bees

Ariel Diliberto visits the garden and greenhouse of Manny Rivera, fervent nexus of evolving vacant land policy, immigrant culture, and urban farming, to ask what will become of such personal–and monumental–efforts when city laws change?

The Food Hub produce truck–farmer’s market on wheels debuts tomorrow in Powelton Village. Angela Taurino talks with the organizers about short and long-term plans

Urban agriculture needs to be tied to broader strategies of economic development, says Ariel Diliberto in her review of the film “Urban Roots”

Eager to escape the crowded city and yet unwilling to give up political influence on the direction of the new nation—and the world—the third president settled on the east bank of the Schuylkill at Grays Ferry