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
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
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
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
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?
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
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