Local Gardening Links
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society- organizers of the internationally acclaimed Philadelphia Flower Show held each year in early March at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. We're located right next door in the Reading Terminal Market, so no visit to the show is complete without visiting our store! During the flower show, the Market offers extended hours.Throughout the year, the PHS offers seminars, garden workshops, kids events, trips and tours, contests and dinners, and a whole lot more. They also maintain a
n extensive horticultural library on the ground floor of their building, located on the corner of 20th and Arch Streets in Center City Philadelphia. Become a member here.
The Philadelphia Zoo
http://www.philadelphiazoo.org/default.aspx
Philadelphia Project
Previous contaminated industrial sites turned into a productive site for agriculture that used to be a steel plant but is now a nursery, greenhouse, and beehive, etc.
Greenworks Philadelphia
http://www.phila.gov/green/greenworks/index.html
PS Association for Sustainable Agriculture
Farmer's Markets and Co-Ops
- The Food Trust
http://www.thefoodtrust.org/index.php - Chestnut Hill Farmer's Market
http://www.chestnuthillpa.com/MemberProfile.aspx?ID=44 - Our own Reading Terminal Market
http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/ - Weaver's Way Co-Op
http://www.weaversway.coop/
CSA Farming
What is CSA? Community Supported Agriculture. Members receive weekly shares of all produce grown on the a specific farm, some CSAs trade labor, rather than money, for crops.
Locally grown, farm fresh foods, some are organic certified!
Philadelphia Food Charter
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/online_extras/30640969.html
Radio & Television
XPN Radio offer's segments on sustainability/links to green organizations in philly! http://www.xyn.org/xpn-programs/sustain
Local stories of interest
Benefits of planting herbs
PECO goes green
http://www.exeloncorp.com/aboutus/news/pressrelease/peco/NR+011508.htm
