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 > more
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 > more
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 > more
“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 > more
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? > more
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