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Urban Farmers Look To Land Bank For Help Holding On To Property
Urbanism

Urban Farmers Look To Land Bank For Help Holding On To Property

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

Trove Of Philly-Centric Books For The Holidays
History

Trove Of Philly-Centric Books For The Holidays

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

Rittenhouse Pop-Up Garden Delights
Art & Design

Rittenhouse Pop-Up Garden Delights

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

“Strong in Bees & Honey”
Urbanism

“Strong in Bees & Honey”

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

A (Grapefruit) Tree Grows In Kensington
Art & Design

A (Grapefruit) Tree Grows In Kensington

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?

Food Hub Revving Up In West Philadelphia
Development

Food Hub Revving Up In West Philadelphia

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

Getting to the Root of the Problem
Development

Getting to the Root of the Problem

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

History

Jefferson’s Monticello On The Schuylkill

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


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