Pick your own berries
The “locally” grown strawberries that are now showing up at Chestnut Hill groceries can be yours for the picking at farms in Montgomery and Bucks [Read More…]
Category: Food and Drink
Life at Henry Got Crops Farm
During a break from cultivating and weeding a raised bed of peas at the Weavers Way Henry Got Crops farm in Roxborough where he volunteers, [Read More…]
Exchanging seeds to preserve heirlooms and feed people
For the third year in a row, Joel Fath and Mira Adornetto of Philly Seed Exchange, set up their table top with seeds and small [Read More…]
Getting early start at community gardens
Marsha Isard of Mount Airy (left) and a fellow gardener, not shown, get an early start planting lettuce, spinach, peas, beets, and radishes in [Read More…]
Singer/nose flautist and songwriter spark Cape May live music scene
Singer Debra Donahue and songwriter JM Kearns sing a song Michael wrote for a wedding many years ago. “You can’t miss if you’re aiming at [Read More…]
Touts Organo Gold coffee
“Organo Gold” coffee is a game–changer, says Derrick Carter, an independent distributor for a line of products including not only coffee but also toothpaste and [Read More…]
Jyoti Indian Foods to open in Mount Airy
Kevin Belmonte, a builder, was applying finishing touches to the about-to-open eat in-/take out Indian restaurant, Jyoti, pronounced “joy tea’ in Mount Airy. Belmonte has [Read More…]
Keeps Kenyan farming tradition alive in Philadelphia
Watch video interview here. Joseph Mbura, a chemistry and math teacher at the W.B. Saul High School for Agricultural Sciences in the Roxborough section of [Read More…]
Losing the sense of smell
A young woman who realized in college that, without a doubt she wanted to become a chef, grabbed the offer to start as the dishwasher [Read More…]
Philly Compost Trusts in Soil
It’s a company called Philly Compost. What they do is organic trash. So anything you can put in your mouth or anything that can compost, [Read More…]