The Magic Garden

A student-led effort for a multi-generational garden aims to break ground this spring behind a South Philly high school near Cambodia Town, where growing food meets cultural preservation

By Katherine Rapin
Weekend Read

“Oh my god. The restaurant’s on fire.”

As part of a partnership with writer/teacher Buzz Bissinger and Penn’s Kelly Writers House, a student journalist explores the aftermath of a fire at a Queen Village institution

By Chloe Shakin

This is your grandma’s coffee shop

Old City’s Frieda Cafe offers the opposite of working remotely: Human interaction across the ages

By Jamie Bogert
Meet the Disruptor

Quaker City Coffee

A Federal Donuts owner and a former inmate partner up to pair your coffee with something much needed: Jobs for the recently incarcerated

By Annie McDonough
Citizen of the Week

The Food Connector

Megha Kulshreshtha launched an app that bridges a disturbing gap between the food wasted by restaurants and Philadelphians who go hungry

By Annie McDonough
Ideas We Should Steal

Urban Food Forest

Seattle’s Beacon Forest provides free native edibles to anyone in the city. Could the soda tax make it possible for a Philly group to do the same here?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Citizen of the Week

InKind Baking Project

Center City’s Molly Lester says you don’t have to march to be civically engaged. You can bake

By Amanda Lien

A Restaurant to Feed Them All

With a chef who bills himself a “culinary anthropologist,” pay-what-you-can EAT Cafe in West Philly upends restaurant dining as we know it

By Meredith Degyansky
Ideas We Should Steal

Anonymous Food Pantries

More people in Philadelphia are going hungry than ever. Can we end the stigma of seeking free food?

By Quinn O'Callaghan

Unlikely Foodies

Philabundance Community Kitchen has helped 600 disadvantaged and recently incarcerated people get culinary jobs—helping to keep them out of prison

By Quinn O'Callaghan