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#187 December 2024/Farming/Featured

With the help of a sizable grant, farmers are rebuilding the long-lost Pennsylvania linen industry

Long after the sweltering heat of summer is a distant memory, Heidi Barr is still thinking about light and airy linen — or at least about growing flax, from which linen is made. Barr, a textile artist and costume designer, first became intrigued with the fiber when she was looking for a local linen supplier

December 1, 2024

4 mins read

#018 September 2010/Farming/Food/GridPhilly

Farm Profile: High View Farm

In June, High View Farm’s Linda Geren brought half a hog to Reading Terminal Market for PASA’s “Snout-to-Tail” seminar. Local chefs made some miraculous creations with the rich, flavorful meat, but Geren’s humble homemade scrapple—served with homemade apple butter and new potatoes—might have been the star.

August 20, 2010

1 min read

#018 September 2010/Farming/Food/gardening

Proud Mary

Mary Seton Corboy and Greensgrow continue to set an example
story by Lee Stabert/photos by Jessica Kourkounis
Greensgrow, an urban farm and nursery in kensington, is a superstar of Philadelphia’s sustainability community. Having earned an abundance of recent national and local press, the pioneering farm’s name is always at the ready when conversation turns to the rising

August 20, 2010

14 mins read

#015 June 2010/Cooking/Farming/Food/Guides

The Food Issue: the Rise of Local Goat Cheese

In Pennsylvania and other states around the country, goat cheese is undergoing a renaissance. In her recent book, Goat Cheese (Gibbs Smith, 2008), Maggie Foard points out that, nationally, the number of licensed goat dairies has jumped from “a handful” 20 years ago to “over 200” in 2007.

May 11, 2010

2 mins read

#015 June 2010/Farming/Food

The Food Issue: Dairy Queens

Amazing Acres Dairy produces local, artisanal chevre by Tenaya Darlington
Last May, Debbie Mikulak embarked on a lifelong dream—she became an artisanal goat cheese maker. With 19 goats and a little over five acres in Elverson, PA, she and her husband, Fred Bloom, now produce more than a dozen cheeses, including a French-style Banon wrapped in

May 11, 2010

2 mins read

#015 June 2010/Circular Economy/Compost/Farming/Food

Profile: King of Compost

Urban farmer and MacArthur Grant recipient Will Allen on the importance of greens, worms and moreby Lee Stabert
Everything about Will Allen is big. The pro basketball player turned urban agriculture iconoclast has hands like baseball mitts, and arms like tree trunks. His normal uniform—jeans, baseball hat, hooded sweatshirt with the sleeves removed—only serves to emphasize

May 11, 2010

5 mins read

#015 June 2010/Cooking/Farming/Food

From the Editor: Home Made

Alex passed his Publisher’s Notes duties along to me this month because I am, simply put, obsessed with food. I’ve been looking forward to this issue for months. Last June, I moved back to Philadelphia—my hometown—after a few years in the wilderness (read: Nashville, TN).

May 11, 2010

3 mins read

#014 May 2010/Farming/Food/GridPhilly

Buy Local: SunnyGirl Farm

SunnyGirl Farm is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream for Mary Ann Petrillo, and her partner Jennifer Cully is along for the ride. Growing on only an acre and a quarter near Kennett Square, the pair sell at farmers’ markets, supply local restaurants and offer a 20-share CSA.

April 8, 2010

1 min read

#014 May 2010/Farming/Food/gardening

Local Business: Green Machine

Farming tools by women, for womenby Lee Stabert
Women are pretty amazing and resourceful,” says Ann Adams, one half of the team behind Green Heron Tools, a company designing gardening and farming equipment specifically for women.

April 7, 2010

1 min read

#013 April 2010/Farming/Food/gardening

Cover Story: Growth Industry

Nic Esposito and a new generation of urban activists are starting in the garden
Answering a question about his favorite things to grow is a challenge for Nic Esposito. After a few nods to his Italian heritage—eggplants, tomatoes—he settles on a response that speaks volumes about the work he is doing in his West Philadelphia community: “I love

March 10, 2010

9 mins read

#013 April 2010/Farming

Local Business: Soap Dish

Spotted Hill Farm proves that size doesn’t matter
Donna Bowman’s farm isn’t very big, but neither are its primary inhabitants: a herd of miniature Nubian goats.
They’re inquisitive, friendly little creatures, with long, floppy ears and prominent noses. Bowman breeds them, and uses their milk for the homemade soaps and lotions she sells through the farm’s website

March 10, 2010

1 min read

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