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A photo tribute to the region’s farmworkers

Landon Jefferies, Root Mass Farm, carrots Aislinn Jefferies, Root Mass Farm, rosemary Barry and Carol Savoie, Savoie Organic Farm, radishes Ruth Ngumi and Ted Kiefer, Hollyberry Farm, holly berry Emma Dosch, Weavers Way, watermelon radish and pink radish Stephanie Ziegler, Blooming Glen Farm, radicchio Loic Le Guen, Blooming Glen Farm, black radish Dana Cohen, Queens

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Four new farm-to-table eateries, from bakeries to pizza joints

Regional Recipes by Emily Kovach SavonaTucked into a historic building in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania, this creative Italian restaurant incorporates products from local farmers in their extensive menu of seafood crudo, pizzas, pastas, salads and grill-fired proteins. True Leaf Microgreens, 1732 Meats and R.L. Irwin mushrooms are among the kitchen’s squad of local purveyors. The bar also

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Farmworkers do dangerous work for little pay. They deserve better.

Illustration by Abayomi Louard-Moore The Hands Behind Our Harvest by Stephanie Dorenbosch We are lucky to have a vibrant and diverse community of stakeholders in Eastern Pennsylvania working to improve many aspects of our food systems, including groups working on local and seasonal food sourcing, sustainable production and food access in underserved communities. In addition, consumers

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The Kenney administration sets its sights on social impact

Copyright City of Philadelphia. Photo by Samantha Madera The People’s Mayor? by Alex Vuocolo At a campaign event in November 2015, then-mayoral-candidate Jim Kenney spoke to a packed room of Latino families and restaurant industry veterans about the importance of welcoming immigrants into the city. He stressed that newcomers were not “illegal immigrants” and condemned

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In the wake of the election, Pennsylvania environmental organizers take stock

A Renewed Commitment by Heather Shayne Blakeslee In the days after President-elect Donald Trump won a narrow victory in Pennsylvania, statewide environmental group PennFuture gathered a who’s who of past and future advocates in downtown Philadelphia. In attendance were three former heads of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, current state Assembly members, myriad leaders

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Worried about who is in the White House? Don’t be

Illustration by Layla Ehsan Meet the New Boss by Jerry Silberman Question: Will President-elect Donald Trump change the direction of the country?The Right Question: How much influence does a president actually have? In reality, not much. The political tenor of this, or any country—as well as its economic success or failure—operates in response to systemic

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Our divisions are a grand illusion

State of mind by Heather Shayne Blakeslee This month, we swear in a new president. Some of us will be swearing a lot for the next four years. There is a mighty cognitive dissonance in looking at an overwhelmingly red map that exists side by side with the fact that nearly 3 million more Americans

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