Monthly Archives: January 2017

Cash Prize Awaits Top Composting System Inventor

Posted on January 25, 2017 | Leave a comment

Have you been kicking around in your head all this time a brilliant idea for a simple, neighborhood-scale, rodent-proof, in-vessel composting system? Fill out a form explaining your design, draw up an illustration to show how it works, submit it by March 15, and if yours is selected as the best, you’ll be the winner of a $500 cash prize.

The compost design competition is sponsored by the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The composting system they are looking for would be suitable for use by schools and other community organizations.
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Find details about the competition, and information about how to submit your idea, in this press release.

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Busy Calendar of Events for Urban Beekeepers

Posted on January 25, 2017 | Leave a comment

Who knew that Philadelphia is “the cradle of American beekeeping”? Not me, until now, thanks to the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild, and a press release the group has issued announcing its 7th Annual Natural Beekeeping Symposium, to be held on Saturday, Feb. 4, at Temple University.

The all-day event is “packed with beekeeping insight and scientific wonderfulness,” with a lineup of experts who will speak on topics ranging from protecting hives from varroa mites to providing them with a nutritionally optimal array of flowers.

The Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild began in 2009 as an informal group of local beekeepers. It has blossomed since then into a thriving nonprofit that “promotes urban beekeeping and raises awareness of the importance of bees to our environment.” The group maintains a busy calendar of events for both experienced and wannabeekeepers.

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The guild holds monthly meetings that are open to the public, usually on the third Thursday of each month, at the St. James School.

For more about the guild and its upcoming events, check out the guild’s website and/or its Facebook page.

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Space for Rent in Parks Department Greenhouse

Posted on January 11, 2017 | Leave a comment

I’m a big fan of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation compost, available free of charge to Philadelphia residents, at the city recycling center on Ford Road in Fairmount Park. When it’s open from spring through fall, I drop by once a month or so and shovel many pounds of the stuff into heavy-duty trash bags in the trunk of my car.

Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Department greenhouse

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UPDATE: Read about my adventures in the greenhouse here and here.

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Growing Spinach Under Snow

Posted on January 6, 2017 | Leave a comment

My Mt. Airy spinach hoop house, Jan. 6, 2017, after a 1-inch snowfall

I didn’t want to toss off the blanket of snow and pull up the row cover to look, but the crops underneath are deep green and glowing in the sunlight filtering through after a 1-inch snowfall covered my backyard garden last night. The temperature will dip into the low teens tomorrow night. Most of my plants should survive–I’m not so sure about the radish sprouts and last little heads of lettuce–but the spinach, kales and one collard plant shouldn’t be fazed.

Nice place for spinach on a snowy day

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Meantime, here are the salad fixings that I picked on New Year’s Day. Yes, it was a very tiny salad.  Keep in mind, folks, the main goal of my overwinter garden isn’t winter production as much as it is a really early spring flush of greens, from plants that will continue yielding cuttings right up to the edge of summer.

Spinach, lettuce, kale and radish sprout harvested on New Year’s Day, 2017

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Posted in My Gardens, Winter Gardening

Agrihoods and Whether Philly Will Get One

Posted on January 4, 2017 | Leave a comment

Great piece in the Philadelphia Citizen on agrihoods. As the writer Quinn O’Callaghan explains, the concept entails running small commercial farming operations at the center of neighborhoods, where small-scale manufacturers used to be. A group in Detroit is putting the idea to a test. The brand bargain prices viagra on line new drug is introduced in the various forms such as tablets, jelly and effervescent. Some viagra prices canada words, if repeated more than a few times will be picked up. Not like see my pharmacy shop levitra samples, L-arginine must be taken every day. It also helps to increase testosterone level and hence very popular viagra price canada among body builders. Agrihoods haven’t shown up here yet, but “not for lack of trying,” O’Callaghan writes. Paul Glover, a former gubernatorial candidate for the Green Party Pennsylvania, has been floating an idea for just such a venture in Logan Triangle for the last couple of years. It’s not a new concept in these parts, O’Callaghan notes.

Hell, you could say that the city itself was founded as a massive agrihood, considering that William Penn wanted every Philadelphian to have an acre of land for this city to be an agrarian, orchard-focused wonderland.

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Big Plans, Little Cash for New North Philly Peace Park

Posted on January 2, 2017 | Leave a comment

Samantha Melamed, a reporter for the Inquirer, recently reported on plans for the new North Philly Peace Park, the successor to a community garden in the Sharswood neighborhood of North Philly that got evicted last year by the Philadelphia Housing Authority from a lot it had occupied for several years. Neighborhood advocates for the garden now have a year-to-year lease on a vacant lot at 22nd and Jefferson Streets, several blocks away from the former site. The lack of long-term land security hasn’t stopped the group from laying out ambitious long-term plans for the new location, based on a design developed as a class project by students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

North Philly Peace Park at original site (screenshot from Google Street View)

The first phase was construction of raised beds on the site last summer, Melamed reported. The crowning piece of the plan is a proposed structure that will house vertical gardens made of recycled wood pallets, designed by Francis Kere, an architect from Burkina Faso known for his use of locally sourced building materials and labor. Tommy Joshua, one of the founders of Peace Park, said the facility will be used in after-school, weekend, and summer programs in agriculture, ecology, nutrition, and other subjects for children and adults.

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The second phase of the build is the new Sala Nkrumah Institute for Creative Labor, a growing, technologically advanced, farm-stand, kitchen and classroom space to facilitate free after school enrichment programs, a garden market, and cooking classes for children ages K- 5th grade and adults in the greater North Philadelphia communities.

Initial response on Indiegogo has been underwhelming. In the first two months, the campaign had raised $323 from 10 donors, 2 percent of the $20,000 goal.

Google Street View of new site for Peace Park

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Home-Grown Tomatoes on New Year’s Day

Posted on January 1, 2017 | Leave a comment

Home-grown, kitchen counter-ripened tomatoes, Jan. 1, 2017

Tasty despite pallid yellow color


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I picked several dozen green tomatoes off the dead vines in my Roxborough garden in early December, before the first deep freeze of the winter reached Philadelphia. You’re supposed to wrap green tomatoes in newspaper, put them in paper bags and store them in a cool place to get them to ripen, but I put them all in a big bowl on my kitchen counter, where they sat for weeks. I had intended to make fried green tomatoes with some, while waiting to see if the others would ripen. Over several weeks of neglect, half rotted, but the others eventually appeared to ripen. Their pallid orange color didn’t lead me to expect them to taste like much, but they weren’t bad at all. They had an unmistakable homegrown taste, with no mushy or mustiness from aging, and were certainly better than anything we’ll find in local markets around here between now and June.

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