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May 24, 2021

Growing Up and Green

Imagine you are living in the city and you notice the lack of space in your home for gardening. Perhaps you have an aloe plant or a...

May 13, 2021

Efforts to Reduce Bird Collisions in Philadelphia

Have you ever seen a dead bird on the sidewalk when walking around the city? Many of these deaths are the result of birds colliding with...

May 3, 2021

Future Stewards at the Nursery

LandHealth Institute's Native Plant Nursery isn't just a destination for native flora. This Spring, 8th and 9th grade students from...

Apr 24, 2021

Earth Day Walk Through the Wissahickon

On Earth Day, the LandHealth Founder, Scott Quitel, led a tour through the Wissahickon, discussing its patterned history in the region...

Jul 24, 2020

Urban Gardens- The Logan Triangle

A New Angle on the Triangle “Give yourselves a hand,” said Sandra Harmon, with great enthusiasm. Sandra is the Data and Outreach...

Jun 18, 2020

Nursery and Partnerships

LandHealth’s native plant nursery re-builds natural and human habitat in Philadelphia Part of LandHealth’s mission is to introduce people...

May 15, 2020

How Coronavirus is Impacting the Environment

Air Pollution Due to the many varying factors surrounding COVID-19, there have been significant reductions in air pollution and CO2...

Feb 24, 2020

LandHealth's Bookshelf: Ecology of Center City Philadelphia, by Kenneth D. Frank

Your average Naturalist has a close relationship to their books. Now, I’m not saying it needs to work that way or works that way for...

Feb 14, 2020

Community Gardening at Logan Triangle

At LandHealth Institute, we have a special interest in neglected urban land. Neglected land in a city isn’t just an eyesore or a place...

Feb 7, 2020

Logan Triangle

Imagine a vacant lot in Philadelphia. There’s probably some grasses, some weeds, some trash. Maybe there’s a tree. Maybe there’s illegal...