Philadelphia Orchard Project Ink: From Pruning to Pigment

2021 POP Orchard Partner Survey Summary

POP sends out a survey to all of our orchard partners at the end of each season to learn about partners’ orchard successes and challenges,… Read More

Plant Spotlight: The Auspicious Asian Pear

“You HAVE to try the pears I bought from the market yesterday.” My friend and I have a colorful enthusiasm for the things that we… Read More

POP TIPS: Preventing and Treating Fire Blight

Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) is a bacterial disease affecting pome fruits including apples, pears, Asian pears, and close relatives like quinces and hawthorns. It gets… Read More

Plant Spotlight: The Small and Sour Sorrel

Looking for something sour, lemony, and refreshing? Nature has produced just the thing: Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), also called Common Sorrel and Garden Sorrel, one of… Read More

Plant Spotlight: Northern Bayberry, A Food Forest Companion

What is Northern Bayberry? (Morella pensylvanica, formerly known as Myrica pensylvanica)—also known as waxberry, wax myrtle, miracle bush, and candle berry—is a native, nitrogen-fixing shrub… Read More

Spring 2022 POP Events Recap

Throughout the first half of the year, POP staff carried out a number of events, ranging from pruning training sessions to orchard plantings to community… Read More

Biofungicides for Orchards: Serenade and Regalia

Spraying biofungicides on your tree to suppress diseases is like releasing beneficial insects in your orchard to decrease pest populations. Sometimes when I think about… Read More

Plant Spotlight: Passionate about Passionflowers?

Get the Inside Scoop on Maypops (a type of passionflower)! STORY BEHIND THE NAME Maypops (Passiflora incarnata) are called maypops for a reason, as the… Read More