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Bearing Fruit

American Cemetery & Cremation, December 1, 2024

Climate Fixers: Climate-proofing Philly for a warmer growing season

WHYY, August 26, 2024

The Philadelphia Orchard Project connects community members to their roots in the city

6 ABC, July 20, 2024

Are Philadelphia farmers the key to making the city a cleaner and healthier place to live?

The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 2024

Major city reaps benefits of steadfast urban gardening movement

The Cool Down, July 7, 2024

The Philadelphia Orchard Project is cultivating fruit that could thrive in a hotter city

Grid Magazine, July 1, 2024

Philadelphia Orchard Project growing subtropical fruits at The Woodlands

Southwest Globe Times, May 31, 2024

Growing Food Across the City with the Philadelphia Orchard Project

PA Eats, May 14, 2024

Can Philly become a hothouse for bananas and pineapples as the climate warms?

Philadelphia Inquirer, May 13, 2024

An experimental orchard aims to help Philly’s urban farms adapt to climate change

Philly Voice, May 10, 2024

Hailed as stewards but legally squatters, longtime community gardeners say they need help staying grounded.

Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 2024

Greener Ways to Feed the World

BBC People Fixing the World, March 26, 2024

Your A-Z Philadelphia Environmental Volunteer Guide

Green Philly, March 13, 2024

Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

Grist, January 29, 2024

Citizens Bank rewarded the Philadelphia Orchard Project with a check for $50k

Fox29, January 22, 2024

Foraging wild fruit can build a connection to nature, even in the city

Grid Magazine, October 30, 2023

Park groups take native plantings beyond the urban wilds

Grid Magazine, June 28, 2023

Philadelphia’s fruit trees are blooming, but questions surround who gets the harvest

Philadelphia Inquirer, June 24, 2023

NRCS Funds Community Gardens in Philadelphia

Pennsylvania’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, June 20, 2023

How to Plant a Sustainable Food Forest That Yields Layers of Produce

Martha Stewart, April 19, 2023

A new way of vegetable gardening, with someone else’s hands in the dirt

Philadelphia Inquirer, April 16, 2023

Green solutions are transforming a West Philadelphia grade school

Penn Today, March 7, 2023

To investigate the Potential of Community Food Forests and Orchards

The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, February 1, 2023

How to Grow a Food Forest

New York Times, January 27, 2023

Philadelphia Orchard Project continues efforts to provide neighborhoods with super-fresh, extra-local produce

Grid Magazine, November 1, 2022

From opera to a night market, here are the 10 best events around Philly this week

The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 15, 2022

Cities are planting trees. Why not make them fruit trees?

Grist, September 13, 2022

Impact100 Philadelphia Plans To Award $435,000 in Eight Grants and Awards

Impact100 Philadelphia, May 10, 2022

A Fruitful Endeavor (PEC Podcast)

Pennsylvania Environmental Council, February 25, 2022

Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative Announces New Grant Awards to Increase Health Food Access in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Department of Public Health, January 27, 2022

Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative 2021 Grant Awards

The Reinvestment Fund, January 27, 2022

A North Philadelphia grower is planting an orchard on a vacant lot

WHYY, August 18, 2021

The Green New Deal for Public Schools Goes Way Beyond Classrooms

Curbed, July 23, 2021

Secretary Of Agriculture To Travel Pennsylvania, Tour Urban Gardens Building Resilient Communities

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, July 19, 2021

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Announces Inaugural Healthier Together Grant Recipients

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, July 14, 2021

2021 Summer Newsletter

Philadelphia Orchard Project, June 30, 2021

Philadelphia Orchard Project: Spring Open House & Plant Sale

West Philly Local, May 21, 2021

‘It’s like a place of healing’: the growth of America’s food forests

The Guardian, May 8, 2021

Urban Agriculture Grant Program 2020-21 Awardees

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, May 7, 2021

7 places to volunteer in a garden or farm in the Philly area this summer

Philadelphia Inquirer, May 5, 2021

Episode 34: Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast with Phil Forsyth

The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast, April 25, 2021

Pictures of Earth Day activities at the Philadelphia Orchard Project Food Forest

Philadelphia Inquirer, April 22, 2021

The stories trees tell: In a photo essay, Penn Today highlights some of campus’s most iconic trees.

Penn Today, April 21, 2021

Penn group wins EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge

Penn Today, April 20, 2021

Cleanups, planting, and playing with worms: Earth Day 2021 in Philly

WHYY, April 18, 2021

Environment: How One Organization is Working Toward Building a Greener City

Philadelphia Neighborhoods, April 14, 2021

The Promise of Pawpaw

The New York Times, October 19, 2020

Penn Food and Wellness Collaborative launches farm in Penn Park to combat food insecurity

The Daily Pennsylvanian, October 15, 2020

A farm for the community

Penn Today, October 8, 2020

A farm grows in Philadelphia

Lewistown Sentinel, July 24, 2020

Announcing POP’s Community Organizing Toolkit!

Philadelphia Orchard Project, July 15, 2020

5 Organizations Working To Make Urban Spaces Greener

Ezvid Wiki, June 14, 2020

The Woodlands is building a community orchard

West Philly Local, May 19, 2020

POP’s Spring Newsletter

Philadelphia Orchard Project, May 12, 2020

Philadelphia Orchard Project and The Woodlands Announce New Partnership and Plans for Demonstration Orchard, Nursery, and Greenhouse

POP, April 29, 2020

How to grow and care for pawpaw trees

Gardner's Path, February 11, 2020

Run, garden, cook, build: Cool ways to volunteer in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2020

Campus orchard grows, with help from the community

Penn Today, November 1, 2019

Philadelphia Orchard Project: Bringing Permaculture To Local Communities

US Apple Association, October 30, 2019

Caramel-sweet and elusive, American persimmons are at their ripest. Here’s where to eat them in Philly.

Philadelphia Inquirer, October 29, 2019

From needle-filled lot to colorful community garden, a North Philly school is transformed

Billy Penn, October 23, 2019

What Is a Pawpaw, and Why Is It So Magical?

Food & Wine, July 24, 2019

Fresh Philadelphia Fruit for All with The Philadelphia Orchard Project

We Love Philly, July 15, 2019

Native Plants and Community Orchards

PA Native Plant Society, July 14, 2019

The rise of urban food forests

Smart Cities Dive, July 2, 2019

Behold the juneberry, Philly’s sweetest secret, and the harvesters who pluck them from the sidewalks

Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 2019

One orchard, one school at a time: the Philadelphia Orchard Project

Common Good, May 6, 2019

A rainy 2018 yielded soggy fall harvest, Philly growers say

WHYY, October 24, 2018

Pawpaws: Where to find and how to eat fall’s best secret treat

Philadelphia Inquirer, September 20, 2018

The Artist Creating Urban Farms to Feed Philadelphia

Civil Eats, September 20, 2018

Growing a ‘Culture of Cultivation’ on Campus

Penn Today, September 19, 2018

The Beautiful Alternative: Orchards in Our City

City Wide Stories, July 10, 2018

Be Fruitful!

GROW Magazine, September 1, 2017

Philadelphia Students Producing Fresh Fruit

WHYY Newsworks, August 22, 2017

Summer’s hearty harvest at the Penn Park Orchard

PennCurrent, July 27, 2017

Urban Gleaning Grows Up

Civil Eats, July 12, 2017

9th Annual Strawberry Festival

Metro Philadelphia, June 5, 2017

Historic Mansions Branch Out: East Park Orchards

Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, April 15, 2017

Sustainability: The Philadelphia Orchard Project Provides Fresh Fruit to Communities

Philadelphia Neighborhoods, June 24, 2016

Growing Gardeners: Philadelphia Orchard Project turns vacant lots into local farms, growing food and community

The Philadelphia Citizen, June 8, 2016

On Philly’s vacant lots, a network of edible forests

The New Food Economy, March 4, 2016

Where others see waste, local gleaning programs see food for those in need

Grid, March 3, 2016

POP gets $100k grant!

Philadelphia Magazine blog, December 1, 2015

Core Learning: Apples Bear Fruit in N. Phila

Philadelphia Inquirer, October 15, 2015

Why Urban Ag Will Make You Healthier

US News, June 23, 2015

POP Weed Identification Guide

WHYY TV, June 19, 2015

Philadelphia Orchard Project

WHYY TV, June 19, 2015

Urban Food Forests

NPR, May 21, 2015

POP Pruning Workshop @ Grumblethorpe

Philly Permaculture, February 11, 2015

Interview with POP’s Robyn Mello

Talkupy Radio, February 3, 2015

Community Orchard Network Webcast featuring POP

Community Orchard Network, January 27, 2015

Urban Orchards

TEDx Arcadia, April 10, 2014

Philadelphia Prison Systems Orchard

CBS Philly, April 1, 2014

Hort Center Food Forest

Master Gardeners, October 24, 2013

Crime Fighting Trees Transform Philly

NBC10, May 28, 2013

Rivera Rec Orchard

Plan Philly, April 17, 2013

Philadelphia Orchard Day 2012

Plan Philly, October 25, 2012

Chicago Rarities Orchard Project

GRIST, September 4, 2012

Edible Landscapes

American Forests, February 1, 2011

Urban Orchards Taking Root in St. Louis

Stl Today, October 20, 2010

Deliciously Fresh Produce Philadelphia

NBC News, August 5, 2010

Urban Foraging – A Pick Your Own Buffet

Philadelphia Enquirer, August 5, 2010

Container Gardening

Organic Gardening, August 1, 2010

Urban Agriculture and Ecological Citizenship in Philadelphia

Local Environment, July 3, 2010

Strawberry Mansion: Orchard Educates Children on Healthy Eating

Philadelphia Neighborhoods, June 1, 2010

Jumping the Fence

Philadelphia Citypaper, May 1, 2010

Teach a Man to Fish… er, Plant

The Fallser, May 1, 2010

The Makers of Green Works Natural Cleaners Announce The 2010 Green Heroes Grant Winners

PRweb, April 1, 2010

More urbanites have their pick of fresh fruit

USA Today, March 1, 2010

A Forest of Foods Planned for City

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, November 15, 2009

Free food can be yours for the picking

Illinois Times, July 1, 2009

Power Plants

GRID Magazine, April 1, 2009

Victory Garden meets urban permaculture and it works

The Chestnut Hill Local, March 1, 2009

An Elf in an Orchard

The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 1, 2008

Orchards crop up around the city

The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 1, 2008

A Fruit Tree that (Could) Grow in Brooklyn

Scienceline, August 1, 2008

Enthusiastis Find Reward in their Backyard Orchards

Philadelphia Inquirer, May 1, 2008

POP in the Garden

Phillyist, May 1, 2008

Making Philadelphia Fruity!

Farm to Philly, April 1, 2008

Philly Orchard Project: Hartranft Planting

BlogNetNews.com, April 1, 2008

Instant Orchard

Citypaper, November 1, 2007

Urban Renewal, the Philly Orchard Project Way

Treehugger, November 1, 2007

Philly Orchard Project

Ecospace, October 1, 2007

Replacing Neglect with Peach Trees

New York Times, September 1, 2007

Vacant Lots Start Bearing Fruit

Daily Pennsylvanian, September 1, 2007

A Peach of a Plan

City Paper, May 1, 2007
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