Category: Green Space & The River

  • Selections from West End Neighbors Garden and History Tour

    Selections from West End Neighbors Garden and History Tour

    The 12th annual West End Neighbors Garden and History Tour, Saturday, June 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour map and 60+ page history guide…

  • Learning from History

    Learning from History

    Rebecca Noecker City Council Member, Ward 2columnist One of the first things I learned from my husband was to look out for my “future self.” I was…

  • Federation Update

    Federation Update

    Annual Meeting and Elections: The West 7th / Fort Road Federation’s Annual Meeting will be Wednesday, April 17 at 6 p.m. at Summit Brewing, including Board elections,…

  • Food Matters: Grow a Few

    Food Matters: Grow a Few

    By Kristin Hamaker Herbs that is, or a few easy-to-grow vegetables. Like lettuces and radishes, or laid-back perennials like chives and rhubarb. It’s that time of…

  • Views from the Garden: Spring Renewal

    Views from the Garden: Spring Renewal

    When you see this a sense of spring will be in the air. This day, the prediction is for rain soon, a sure sign of the…

  • They come for water, stay for food

    They come for water, stay for food

    BIRDS IN PARTICULAR   By Halle O’FalveyIf you have ever thought about feeding the birds but did not want to commit, March and April are your months. Natural…

  • Plant, seed exchange

    Plant, seed exchange

    Views from the Garden by Kent Petterson Philadelphia Green, the nation’s first tree, plant and seed sharing exchange of free material for public and community gardening started…

  • 12th Annual West End Neighbors Garden, History Tour

    12th Annual West End Neighbors Garden, History Tour

    West End neighbors have designated Saturday, June 8, for the 12th annual West End Neighbors Garden … and this year, for the first time, History Tour. The…

  • Little Bohemia Neighborhood Association Tenth Anniversary

    Little Bohemia Neighborhood Association Tenth Anniversary

    The Little Bohemia Neighborhood Association (LBNA) began to take form in Tom and Marit Brock’s front parlor, back in February 2008. When the group formed, it faced…