A guide to helping cucumbers and melons get their groove onby Char Vandermeer
If summer were a taste, it would surely be cucumber—or maybe muskmelon. They’re both little bursts of sunshine on the vine. While your planting space may be limited to a few pots or a tiny patch in a community garden, that doesn’t mean
A CSA sprouts in West Philadelphia by Cassie CumminsThere is an abundance of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs across Pennsylvania, but the latest West Philadelphia CSA is significantly different.
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Infill Philadelphia Receives Community Action Grant from the ULIInfill Philadelphia has more than one reason to celebrate. The five-year urban revitalization initiative will complete phase three of the program this fall, and they’ve also been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Community Action Grants program.
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I've been on a pizza bender. Those little balls of dough call to me from the freezer almost nightly, crying out to be topped with asparagus and mushrooms or roasted garlic and goat cheese. And since last week, I think they know that there's a jar of Jersey Fresh tomatoes sitting in the fridge, waiting
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On May 2, I spent some time at the Chestnut Hill Home & Garden Festival, manning the Grid table. Happy Cat Organics was stationed two booths to our left, so I was able to impress upon tomato guru Tim Mountz to select four varieties from his massive collection for inclusion in my community garden plot.
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Am I allowed to say that sprouts are my favorite food? Do they count?
Sprouts really are magical (and not just because they seem to be infinite when you're eating them from their tiny store-bought containers). Sprouts are rich in digestible energy: vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins, enzymes and phytochemicals—all of which happen to the beans
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Grid‘s annual Food Issue was put to bed late last week, and will be arriving on our shores within the next few days. Come celebrate our biggest issue ever this Thursday at Swift Half Pub (in the Piazza). Drinks are $1 off (5-7 p.m.), and at 7 p.m. Flying Fish taps a firkin of their
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Back in February, The Griddle covered West Philly's Hybrid X Team, and their mission to raise funds to compete in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize Competition.
Now, we have an update: The team raised the funds, and the competition is well under way. The field—which began with 111 teams—has dwindled to a mere 28, and Hybrid X
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Last Thursday, the House passed the Home Star bill, a $5.7 billion stimulus program that will offer rebates to homeowners for energy efficiency renovations. The bill has been unofficially dubbed "Cash for Caulkers."
Here is a report by the Associated Press on how the program will work:
How the proposed Home Star, or Cash for Caulkers, program
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This weekend, I found myself in a random debate. The argument was eventually settled with the old adage, “Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” I found that saying drifting into my mind again this morning when I read this Inquirer story on Chad and Courtney Ludeman’s new energy-efficient Kensington home. The story goes
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