With little grant funding to help maintain existing gardens, many of the projects that were developed through Philadelphia Green did decline over time. At the same time, the Neighborhood Gardens Trust has begun to target its garden preservation efforts at rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods where gardens appear to be the most threatened; however, preserving the gardens […]
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The Public Interest Law Center’s Garden Justice Legal Initiative was a member of both coalitions
Having experienced the city’s tangled land ownership, patchy records and hazy bureaucracy in their efforts to preserve threatened gardens, urban agriculture advocates had hoped the creation of a Land Bank would streamline the process in a way that would speed garden preservation in the face of rapid gentrification. Beginning around 2010, housing developers, community groups, […]
This choice of actions makes sense given PHS’s organizational commitments and the legitimacy it had cultivated
As others have stated, the citizens of Philadelphia have notably little faith that their government is going to support resident ideas that serve the public interest. Philadelphia politics have long been dominated by the Democratic Party, which uses a ward system to organize voters and control which candidates get the party’s endorsement; this dynamic seems […]
They are no longer active in coalition work to pressure city officials around land use policy change
Garden support continued, but it came to be described more in terms of educational classes offered and trainings to help neighborhoods self-organize to start gardens. Eventually, the Philadelphia Green program ended as its functions were divided into new, more focused programs including Garden Tenders , City Harvest , Public Landscapes , and Philadelphia LandCare . […]
Participants in these projects tend to be more involved in politics and their communities than the general population
McClintock’s framework helps explain the multi-functionality of urban agriculture, its wide resonance in an era of widespread individual, social and ecological strain, and its interconnectedness with numerous social, cultural and environmental processes. However, his invocation of urban political ecology stops short of tracing the ideological and material flows involved in urban agriculture’s implementation in any […]
Marxist theorists have long held that crises are inherent to how capitalism functions
With the higher density of urban areas, demand for space can put pressure on any land use that isn’t maximizing a site’s potential. Of course, what is considered a site’s maximum potential is socially constructed; as predicted by the urban growth machine theory, land uses are largely determined by the alignment of interests among powerful […]
T-budding is generally the best budding method for citrus and avocados
The seedling will be ready for budding or grafting when it has grown to 24 to 30 inches tall.Budding and grafting are vegetative propagation techniques in which a single bud or stem of a desired plant is attached to a root stock plant. In budding, a single bud with its accompanying bark is used as the scion. In grafting, part […]
Tillage encompassed the number of tillage passes a farmer performed per field site per season
The 13 farmers interviewed represent 13 individuals who oversee management and operations on their farms. These individuals were most often the primary owner and operator of the farm, and made key management decisions on their farm. To identify potential participants for this study, we first consulted the USDA Organic Integrity database and assembled a comprehensive […]
Deionized water was added and allowed to imbibe into the soil until no water dripped from the funnel
For instance, soil texture may play a mediating role in N cycling, where soils high in clay content may limit substrate availability as well as access to oxygen, which in turn, may restrict the efficiency of N cycling . In this sense, it is important to understand the role that soil edaphic characteristics play in order to […]
Eleven of them are edible and are incorporated into meals as herbs
The Cerén farmers tolerated and possibly even encouraged the growth of wild and weedy species within their maize fields. All of the weedy species recovered from these fields have known uses nutritionally, medicinally, or for other purposes where they were incorporated into ceremonial activities or valued as a decoration . Amaranthus, Crotalaria, and Portulaca are […]