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#192 May 2025/education/Environment/gardening/Urban Nature

A new native seed library at Strawberry Mansion’s Discovery Center offers resources and education for planting pollinator-friendly gardens

On the first warm Saturday of the year, Taylor Bakeman organized a seed packing event to restock The Discovery Center’s new native seed library. Just a few weeks after opening, its seed supply was already running low. A dozen volunteers spent the day counting and sifting tiny seeds of New York ironweed, anise hyssop and

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May 1, 2025
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#192 May 2025/Environment/gardening/Urban Nature

Infographic: Power Flower

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May 1, 2025
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#192 May 2025/Environment/Urban Nature

In the absence of mitigating treatments, volunteers survey the damage of bird-window collisions

Every Wednesday morning during spring and fall migration seasons, Peter DeStefano walks the brick sidewalks of Independence Mall in Old City in search of birds — dead ones. A volunteer for Bird Safe Philly, DeStefano combs the areas where, because of an abundance of large windows, migrating birds are most likely to meet their demise.

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May 1, 2025
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#192 May 2025/Environment/Shop Local/Sponsored Content

Tallow skincare company uses locally-sourced ingredients to make sustainable soaps

The internet’s latest viral skincare ingredient might surprise you. Many are raving about the many potential skin benefits of using soaps and moisturizers made from beef tallow — yes, rendered cow fat. While the popularity of these products has been on the rise since about 2022, one Philadelphia-based soap company was years ahead of the

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May 1, 2025
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#191 April 2025/Fashion/Shop Local

Old City boutique offers locally-made clothing with European flare

The handmade dresses of red lace and black silk displayed in the tall, arched windows of Dafina Co. in Old City (47 N. 3rd Street) prompt passersby to pause and imagine slipping into such elegance. Inside the boutique, restrained electronic music and French artwork set the stage for the runway-ready clothing that designer Gerta Hebeja

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April 1, 2025
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#191 April 2025/Editor's Notes

Editor’s Notes: Resisting Resignation

A few years ago a friend moved to the suburbs after decades in Philadelphia. Last week she came over for dinner, and she joked about a chicken bone she stepped over on the sidewalk on her way to our West Philly door. There’s nothing like chicken bones to let you know you’re back in the

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April 1, 2025
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#191 April 2025/Fashion

Infographic: Don’t Get Fleeced

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April 1, 2025
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#191 April 2025/Fashion/Shop Local

Ardmore clothing brand offers timeless made-in-American threads that last

For the Ardmore-based fashion company American Trench, it’s all about looking sharp and staying stateside. “We make some pieces of classic menswear that guys can identify with as super useful investment pieces,” says cofounder Jacob Hurwitz. When the brand launched its first product in 2013, Hurwitz says he and cofounder David Neill were driven by

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April 1, 2025
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#191 April 2025/Community/Race and Equity

Philadelphia’s status as the nation’s poorest big city is a major cause of its gunfire

This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. It is the third story in a three-part series about the roots and realities of gun violence in Black America. You can read the first installments at thetrace.org. Sign up for The Trace newsletters here. Walter Palmer, 90, vividly

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April 1, 2025
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#191 April 2025/transportation/Urban Nature

West Fairmount Park’s trolley system is reborn as a multi-use path

Beginning by the Chamounix Mansion, The Fairmount Park Trolley Trail passes through acres of lush forest. It curves and slopes past trees that are home to birds and squirrels, trees whose trunks sprout mushrooms closer to the forest floor. After a 15-minute walk, visitors arrive at the Skew Arch Bridge, the trail’s most popular feature.

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April 1, 2025
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