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Agricultural Phenomenon

http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/04/29/urban-gardening-agriculture-in-philadel...

The cover story for the April 29th, 2010 City Paper is all about Philly's urban ag movement. Mill Creek Farm co-director Jade Walker chimes in towards the end.

NBC 10 Stops by the MCF

NBC 10's Byron Scott stops by the Mill Creek Farm at the beginning of our 2010 growing season to profile the farm and Campus Philly's Alternative Spring Break program.

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Growing Pains

http://citypaper.net/print-article.php?aid=21337

Terry Gillen of the Redevelopment Authority clarifies RDA's relationship with urban farming initiatives in Philadelphia. http://www.reversemortgagekdc.com

SCI West blog: Urban Farming at The Mill Creek Farm

September 25, 2009 by sciwestblogger

Grid Article Featuring Mill Creek Farm

June/July 2009 Issue

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The little half-acre that could

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20090608_The_little_half-acre_that_could__...

Urban minifarms, like Mill Creek, are keeping many Philadelphians from going hungry

June 8th 2009

By DAN GERINGER
Philadelphia Daily News

geringd@phillynews.com 215-854-5961

"WE'RE out here in the dirt all the time," said Jade Walker, standing amid the patch of topsoil on Brown Street near 49th that keeps hunger from the doors of neighboring homes in the recession-ravaged Mill Creek section of West Philadelphia.

Can Okra Save the City?

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/earth-to-philly/Can_Okra_save_the_city.html

Blog post in response to Daily News article "The Little Half-Acre that Could"

Monday, June 8, 2009

Can Okra save the city?

Audio clip of an Interview with Johanna Rosen on WXPN

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Check out an audio clip of an interview with Johanna Rosen by WXPN's Michaela Majune.

Urban Farm Tills the West Phila. Soil

http://thedp.com/node/56881

An Article from the Daily Pennsylvanian by Kathy Wang

September 23rd, 2008

Mill Creek Farm is not much different from any other farm.

Patches of okra, cherry tomatoes, eggplant and more than 50 other crops rotate with the season. The smell of basil permeates the air, chirping crickets are the closest thing to noise and the greenness of the crops can blind your eyes on a sunny day.

But there's one big difference. Mill Creek is located on just a half-acre of land - in the heart of West Philadelphia.

Post on archinect.com

http://www.archinect.com/schoolblog/entry.php?id=79184_0_39_0_C

September 2008

Yet another orientation entry...

On Saturday we were invited to participate in one of several tours of Philadelphia. The tour that I chose was given by City Planning professor Domenic Vitiello. Domenic's current research involves community gardening and urban farming. We started out from Meyerson Hall and caught the #10 trolley out through West Philly. From the trolley stop we walked down through a Hope VI housing project. The new townhouses of the Lucien E. Blackwell Homes replace Mill Creek Apartments, a mix of low-rise and high-rise buildings that were designed by Louis Kahn in 1950.