The food we grow is a portrait of our vibrant, resilient city

Photo by Neal Santos The Urban Kitchen Garden by Alex Jones The term “kitchen garden” conjures an image you might see in a history textbook: A woman, probably of Western European descent, harvests something delicious and at the peak of ripeness from a large, bountiful patch of cultivated land mere yards from what is almost

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From the Ground Up

Philadelphia Urban Creators enact their bold plan to educate, energize, empower and unite

Along 11th Street in North Philadelphia, a short drive from City Hall, are blocks of crumbling rowhomes and crowded public housing apartments, interrupted by the conspicuously new townhomes and condos of Temple University students. Vacant lots abound, edged by rickety fences and rife with

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