Site One: 100 Square Feet The IPBN Site One Demonstration Garden Project occupies 100 square feet of level ground, a five by twenty-foot plot formerly covered by weeds and junk. It faces southwest in a niche surrounded by stone walls on north and east and a chain link fence on the west. Entry is through the open space on the south. The stone walls are the foundation of a row house in a low-income neighborhood, they were erected in 1888….
The senior chief of this cucumber picking crew confided, “we like this work, have our own farms and make good money.” “But,” he continued, “we liked it better when our children could help. They need to learn to work. It could keep them out of trouble. We are proud to be vegetable pickers.” When we purchase a cucumber, “organic” or “non-organic,” in a retail market, we support a pyramid of entrepreneurs from seed growers to planters, irrigators, fertilizers, pickers, haulers…
By Marilynn Marter Philadelphia Inquirer Food Writer Sow in the spring, harvest in fall. Or sometime in between. It’s axiomatic. A basic most in the Northeast live by. But not Jim and Dorothy Oswald. They planted a kitchen garden in the yard of their son’s Conshohocken row house on Aug. 15. By September, they were picking salad greens. By October, they were harvesting vegetables. And they expect to be eating from that garden at least through December, and quite likely through…