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1 month ago | 
civileats.com | Ben Seal
The Double Trellis Food Initiative fights hunger in America’s poorest large city—and gives young people a path to employment.
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1 month ago | 
phillymag.com | Ben Seal
Longform Philly Housing Prices Are Through the Roof. But There Are Ways to Fix It For decades, housing in Philadelphia has been relatively inexpensive. Now? Not so much. Here's how the region can buck skyrocketing costs and return to affordability. Sign up for our weekly home and property newsletter, featuring homes for sale, neighborhood happenings, and more.
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1 month ago | 
phillymag.com | Ben Seal |Sandy Smith |Christine Speer Lejeune
Real Estate 2025: The Great Philly Sticker Shock From how Philly might buck the trend of skyrocketing housing costs to a look at a more affordable version of your dream neighborhood to a drilled-down real estate report on the entire region, here’s what’s happening in real estate this year. Sign up for our weekly home and property newsletter, featuring homes for sale, neighborhood happenings, and more.
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1 month ago | 
civileats.com | Ben Seal
Alien land laws date to the early 20th century, when thousands of Japanese immigrants came to California to build a better life. They used their agricultural knowledge do to so, eventually producing most of the state’s strawberries, snap beans, and celery in addition to nearly half its onions, tomatoes, and green peas. White farmers and landowners identified an economic threat.
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2 months ago | 
gridphilly.com | Ben Seal
In the summer of 2023, farmers and gardeners in Philadelphia had good reason to be optimistic. The City had just published its first urban agriculture plan, called “Growing from the Root,” which offered a 10-year road map for building a thriving local food system and securing land for farmers and gardeners.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
sju.edu | Ben Seal
Success & Impact On Instagram and in a pair of books, he’s shining a light on quirky places that reflect the director’s aesthetic — and showing that they all have stories to tell. Written by: Ben Seal Published: November 19, 2024 Total reading time: 4 minutes Along the border between Vermont and Quebec lies a building that straddles two worlds.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
phillymag.com | Ben Seal
Longform How One Philadelphia Prison Could Change Incarceration in America A ground-breaking partnership between Drexel and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is revolutionizing the U.S. prison system, one block at a time.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
nautil.us | Ben Seal
Four years ago, Hannah was 35 and raising a 3-year-old daughter with her husband Jacob. Then, that October, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Amidst the strain of the ongoing pandemic, she underwent a year of treatments. But even after finishing them, she was wracked by anxiety and depression, paralyzed by fears of recurrence, debilitation, and of their daughter growing up without her. She experienced bouts of dissociation and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
gridphilly.com | Ben Seal
For years, the residents of Edmonston, Maryland, had needed help. Situated just outside Washington, D.C., the town of about 1,500 people, primarily Hispanic and Black, had flooded for four years in a row in the late 2000s. The issue wasn’t overflow from the Anacostia River that bisects the municipality, but rather its outdated and ineffective water management infrastructure. Residents were overwhelmed.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
civileats.bluelena.io | Carmen Kohlruss |Ben Seal |Hannah Wallace
Tom Huang is assistant managing editor for journalism initiatives at The Dallas Morning News, where he is leading a fundraising campaign to support local news and community engagement. As an adjunct faculty member of The PoynterInstitute, he organizes and teaches seminars for professional journalists on writing, reporting and editing, and coaches the Local News Innovation Program, which helps newsrooms make the transition to sustainable digital publishing.
