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The PHS Fall Garden Festival featured a friendly competition of “Garden Giants,” larger-than-life veggies and “Garden Bounty,” lush floral and vegetable arrangements celebrating the bounty of the harvest. Festival goers were delighted by the creative use of materials in the designs, and the dedication of those who nurtured their crops to above-average size. For a […]
We’re counting down the days until PHeaSt, a one-of-a-kind, farm-to-table dinner party that PHS is hosting in our warehouse at the Navy Yard on October 19, 2012, from 7 to 10 pm (order your tickets here!). Some of the area’s best restaurants will be represented, using locally sourced ingredients to create fabulous fall dishes. Proceeds […]
If you think your neighborhood would benefit from a community garden (and what neighborhood wouldn’t?), consider joining PHS Garden Tenders, which is a tremendous learning opportunity for groups, individuals, teachers, and anyone interested in gardening with others. Topics include finding a site, getting permission, assessing your resources, organizing a group, and working with others. Community […]
The Burpee Foundation has generously awarded PHS $225,000 over three years to support enhancements to the PHS garden and greenhouse operations at the Philadelphia Prison System’s Northeast Correctional Facility, a key component of the PHS City Harvest program. These operations provide vital training and work opportunities for prison inmates while growing thousands of seedlings that […]
We all have a green space that we love—be it a public park, a corporate courtyard, or even the wildflower bed in the median of the highway. The Community Greening Award is a way for PHS to recognize greening efforts throughout the region that beautify communities, brighten lives, and help the environment. Recipients of the […]
The Community Greening Awards are a way for PHS to recognize all the greening efforts throughout the region that beautify communities, brighten lives, and help the environment! Typical recipients of the award include individuals/groups who maintain main streets, public parks, traffic islands, train stations, churches, schoolyards, libraries, or businesses. But as green spaces come in […]
October 2, 2012 by Barb
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