Three turtles are waiting in the garden at the Max Myers Playground. The kids have to find them. As David Crutchfield, garden ...

The Sunday following Philadelphia’s apocalyptic microburst storm, the Garden Court gardeners gathered late in the day to ...

When you were in high school, did you eat everything that got plopped onto your tray in the cafeteria? Some things never ...

The meeting had been running for nearly two hours when parents began asking about Palumbo’s tech policy. Edwin Mayorga, a Palumbo parent and HSA member, saw an opportunity to ask a question that had ...

Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou, with authority, when asked about the origins of Philadelphia’s borders. “That’s when the Consolidation was signed: February 2, 1854.” Good luck finding another Philadelphian ...

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Cliveden invites and gathers the community, educates students, teachers and public visitors and in a safe space, convenes vital conversations about history, race, culture, class, gender, civics and ...

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In the early 1700s, botanist John Bartram surveyed his farmland abutting the banks of the Schuylkill River in what is now Southwest Philadelphia and had an idea: build a garden for his beloved plants.

In the summer of 2023, farmers and gardeners in Philadelphia had good reason to be optimistic. The City had just published its first urban agriculture plan, called “Growing from the Root,” which ...

In the spring of 2024 the board of trustees of Parks & Rec Heroes, previously known as the Philadelphia Parks Alliance, voted to wind down the organization’s operations. Originally called Friends of ...