Letting lawns go wild and vacant city lots go green
Ecologist Douglas Tallamy says we should turn our lawns into wild oases for native plants and animals. He'll explain how to do it and why it's so important.
Source: whyy.org
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City Council proposal would buy back $10 million worth of bank liens on community gardens
Councilmember Kendra Brooks unveiled the 'Restore Community Land' proposal, which urges the city to spend $10 million to reacquire the land it sold off during a failed effort to earn money for the School District of Philadelphia in 1997. These land parcels are currently held in liens by U.S. Bank, who plans to sell them off in sheriff's sales by 2023.
Source: phillyvoice.com
Philly restarts city agricultural plan with anti-racist lens
3 months ago Kirtrina Baxter, an organizer with Soil Generation, said the team felt it needed to deal with internal racial dynamics to have a good working relationship moving forward. “There were some control issues and power dynamics that are common between people of color and white folks,” Baxter said. “People are unwilling to have conversations about power in ways that are beneficial for people of color, and on this project, as the community experts, we were raising concerns that just weren’t being valued.” At the same time, the group was processing its own racial dynamics, the u...
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