Illustration by Grace Hwang It’s Prime Time To Savor These Late-Summer Beauties By Peggy Paul Stone Fruits (e.g., peaches, plums, nectarines and apricots) Though they vary in flavor, size and shape, all stone fruits (or drupes) are unified by their thin skin, soft, sweet flesh and nut-like pit. Peaches and nectarines are the densest of
MoreWorkshop School student leader and rising sophomore Quwontay Hunter works on acarpenter project By Alex Jones Quwontay Hunter has changed a lot over the past few years. Since enrolling at the Workshop School, his teachers, mentors and mom agree: the 16-year-old rising sophomore from West Philadelphia hasn’t just grown—he’s flourished. When the friendly, soft-spoken teen
MoreKids taking a hike with the Urban Blazers program learn which berries are edible | photo by Urban Blazers by Hannah Waters The woods of Fairmount Park are haunted. There, in a dilapidated hut, lives the Green Lady, according to local legend. She roams the park with a single purpose: to steal kids who venture too
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Free Library of Philadelphia President Siobhan Reardon | photo by Jon Roemer By Marilyn Anthony In 2008, Siobhan Reardon, the first female president of the Free Library of Philadelphia, had some challenging ingredients to work with when she arrived: a 30 percent budget cut, a stalled capital campaign, pressure to close many neighborhood libraries and the astounding
MoreElementary students at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education get down in the mud during a hike | photo by Rebecca Dhondt by Justin Klugh As a child, environmental leader Mike Weilbacher can remember getting lost in the pine woods of Long Island. “That was our home,” he recalls. “We’d go off, two miles away from
MoreWe all know that the food we nourish ourselves with affects our bodies. But how often do we think about the fact that what, and where, we choose to eat affects the health of the local economy and environment? Our everyday food choices also reflect our personal values. When you choose to patronize businesses in
Moreby Emily Teel Mushrooms grow from a network, a web of interconnected genetic information called mycelium. Even though it’s invisible to the human eye, soil mycelium is constantly growing, individual spores sending out threads called hyphae and building connections to one another. Something similar happened when Dan Howling, Brian Versek and Tyler Case met. Mycopolitan, Philadelphia’s
MorePLANT-BASED PROFILECouncilman Kenyatta Johnson not only wants to be there for his constituents; he wants to be there for his infant son. “I can’t predict the future, but I do know that taking care of my body and eating healthy is one way to make sure I’m doing all that I can to be around
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PLANT-BASED PROFILEFor Liam Wilson, bassist for the critically acclaimed hardcore band Dillinger Escape Plan, excluding animal products from his diet expanded his horizons. “When I decided to change my diet in my teens, I was introduced to so many new tastes—new cultural traditions around food—and as a result I became a more adventurous and disciplined
MorePLANT-BASED PROFILERopeadope recording artist Kuf Knotz released his latest record, A Positive Light, this past spring, and that title accurately captures his vibe. His expansive view of the world is reflected in his music as well as his eating habits.
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