Keep Calm and Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)
By POP Intern, Lucia Kearney Description I first met anise hyssop one late summer day while helping my lovely friend Liz Wagner of Crooked Row… Read More
Category Archives: Wild Edibles
Plant Spotlight: The Plucky Mulberry (Morus)
Check out this map of mulberry locations in Philadelphia to find potential harvest locations; you can also add to or update it! Please read our… Read More
Plant Spotlight: The Joyful Juneberry (Amelanchier spp)
It’s June, and that means a piece of good news for us all: the juneberries are ripening! While this is making some of us leap… Read More
Plant Spotlight: Meet the Pawpaw! (Asimina triloba)
By 2016 POP Intern, Lucia Kearney. I first encountered the pawpaw one late-September day when my former elementary school art teacher came to my parents’… Read More
Burdock: Blessing or Burr-den?
By 2016 POP Intern, Bridget Downey, and POP Program Director, Robyn Mello Burdock is one of the first plants to be aware of at the start… Read More
Plant Spotlight: Hawthorn
Hawthorns planted near 15th & Arch! Check out the leaf shape and fruit blossom end to help with identification. In December, POPHarvest’s last community gleaning… Read More
Intro to Wild Edibles
Dandelions, lambs-quarters, mustard greens, oh my! WILD EDIBLES Widely abundant and highly nutritious, wild edible plants thrive with little human effort and are useful as… Read More
Spring Forward with Wild Edibles – Spotlight on Chickweed and Nettles
Some of nature’s most nutritious foods and powerful medicines come to us from the untended wild – from the cracks in the sidewalk, to the… Read More
Look To The Weeds For What You Need
As the earth & its creatures wake up around us this month, you will probably feel a corresponding surge of energy that’s inexplicable for any… Read More