Posted inFamily Food and Drink Gardening
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 Counties and in New Jersey…
Posted inBUSINESS Education ENVIRONMENT
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, your correspondent captured a slice…
Posted inEducation Food and Drink Gardening
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 brown envelopes for packing and…
Posted inENVIRONMENT Food and Drink HEALTH
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 their community garden plots at…
Posted inFood and Drink Music
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 me babe…” When the couple…
Posted inBUSINESS Food and Drink HEALTH
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 soap, all containing the Chinese…
Posted inBUILDINGS BUSINESS Food and Drink
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 been acquainted with the husband…
Posted inAfrican-American Education ENVIRONMENT
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 Philadelphia has loved gardening since…
Posted inDISABILITY Food and Drink HEALTH
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 in a famous Boston restaurant…
Posted inBUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Food and Drink
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, they take, they’ll put into…