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Compost Confidential
National television gardening host Joe Lamp'l and friends share their unique, insider's perspective on the lessons and new of gardening and living green. Click here to download Joe's "Very Cool Weekend aping Pilot for PBS Series"
Down on the (Urban) Farm (CBS News)
Our search for delicious food is taking us all over ... including places you might not expect. Rita Braver has been down on the urban farm: Click here to read the article.
Workin' In (GoMagazine)
“I was literally looking for a good tomato,” says Mary Seton Corboy, former chef and co-founder of Philadelphia’s urban Greensgrow Farms. “I knew how far tomatoes were being shipped though it was growing season in the northeast, and I thought it was absurd.” Click here to read the article.
Where Industry Once Hummed, Urban Garden Finds Success (NY Times Article)
Amid the tightly packed row houses of North Philadelphia, a pioneering urban farm is providing fresh local food for a community that often lacks it, and making money in the process.
Greensgrow, a one-acre plot of raised beds and greenhouses on the site of a former steel-galvanizing factory, is turning a profit by selling its own vegetables and herbs as well as a range of produce from local growers, and by running a nursery selling plants and seedlings. Click here to read more...
Green Thumbs in the City - ABC Action News
Tomatoes ripening on the vine. Squash plants in flower. Swiss chard in full leaf. Click here to see the ABC news clip.
Mary Seton Corboy: Urban Farming Pioneer
Mary Seton Corboy wasn’t looking to start a movement. She was just looking for a place to grow vegetables that would keep their just-picked flavor when she delivered them to Philadelphia restaurants. Click here to read more.
More media sightings can be found on the Greensgrow Philadelpha Project Website.
Eat well. Eat local.