For 20 years, Urban Tree Connection has been on a crusade to provide low-income Philadelphians with access to affordable and nutritious food. In early October, the organization received $10,000 in grant money from the Lincoln Financial Foundation to support their Growing Healthy Initiative. Since 2006, the program has worked to repurpose the city’s many vacant
MoreThe fat raccoon waddled down the sidewalk like he owned it, offering no indication that he viewed the human walking behind him as any threat at all. I followed slowly for a minute, enacting a surprising level of decorum—“After you! No, take your time!” Eventually, it slipped through the short fence around the triangular pocket
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If you’re making your holiday turkey selection based on personality, then a heritage breed Red Bourbon is probably the way to go. As we approached their enclosure at Griggstown Quail Farm in Princeton, NJ, the colorful birds moseyed on over to say hello. They gobble-gobbled, the males fluffed their feathers into that familiar crown (an
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I rode cross country, then crashed outI've had quite a few bike crashes in my life. A couple casual tip-overs due to clip-in pedal malfunction (or I-don't-need-to-clip-out hubris), one slide on a gritty road that left my thigh covered in road rash, a loss of balance on the Chestnut Street bridge that resulted in some
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Regarding to the critical policy decision we mentioned yesterday, the Senate has passed an overhaul of the country’s food safety system. Holla. Included in the Senate bill were exceptions for small producers who sell most of their products locally (animportant sticking point for sustainable food advocates who argued the burden of regulation would hurt those
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In anticipation of my Greensgrow Farm winter CSA share starting up this weekend, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on CSAs. TreeHugger has an interesting post up about a new computer program called Farmigo that was designed to help farmers manage their CSA programs in more efficient, streamlined and (hopefully) profitable way: Farmigo basically takes over
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We all know how much I love foraging, so I’ve been meaning to share this New York Times story on top chefs looking to the wild for new ingredients: Increasingly, in an era when truffles are farmed and Whole Foods sells fresh porcini, the ingredients that chefs seek are not the ones anyone can order;
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Also, Michael Pollan has a must-read Op-Ed in the Times on the F.D.A. Food Safety Modernization bill. I won’t even excerpt it here because I think everyone should click through. Let’s just say this is a huge moment for food safety in our country.
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Some exciting new for the Postgreen folks! The USGBC has named their 100K House the 2010 LEED Homes Project of the Year. Treehugger shared the news this morning, and I particularly enjoyed this quote from Postgreen’s Nic Darling on the company’s marketing strategy: “Most of our marketing to date has been developed in an environment of
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Signs of progress at Reading Terminal's Beer Garden. An application for liquor license notice is up. Close-up, after the jump.
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