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Faces of the Free Library: Meet Rebecca!

As patrons may know, the Free Library has been expanding staffing efforts throughout the library system in recent months. With all the hiring excitement, there’s a mix of both new and familiar faces in all of the branches, and you…

Picture Book Highlights | Flower Power

A sure sign that spring is around the corner is the start of The Philadelphia Flower Show , a tradition that dates back to 1829. After a long winter, it's such a joy to see flowers begin to bloom everywhere. Get ready for…

Keep it Fresh with Fresh Herbs!

Fresh herbs add flavor and nutrition to meals, they are beautiful when added to dishes, and many of them have unique fragrances. They are like tiny greens ! Maybe fresh herbs will inspire poems, cooking, or preserving like they do for…

Picture Book Highlights | Gardening

Happy spring, Philadelphia! It’s time to go out and work on our gardens – in our yards, balconies, or community gardens! Let’s all get our hands dirty with soil and bring beauty and sustenance into the world…

Edible Alphabet Recipe of the Week: Pasta Primavera

Edible Alphabet is a free English Language Learning (ELL) program offered by the Free Library's Culinary Literacy Center. The mission is to teach English language and literacy skills through hands-on cooking projects. While Free…

Making Sense of Food Scraps

by Nourishing Literacy staff members Shayna M. and Carolyn After reading a New Yorker article a few weeks ago, our curiosity and interest grew in how to use kitchen scraps in resourceful ways. Tamar Adler, the highlighted…

Michelle Obama Grows a Garden

Today is the birthday of celebrated former First Lady and citizen of the world, Michelle Obama . A political figure in her own right, Michelle Obama is well known for her healthy eating campaign, Lets Move! The campaign targeted…

The Pumpkin on the Plate

Squash is one of those wonderful, hearty foods that last throughout the colder seasons, and comes in many intriguing shapes and sizes. It serves as a point of literary intrigue, a cultural cornerstone, and a hot topic for cookbooks.…

Gardening for Kids Programs Grow Community Connections

Meredith McGovern is a Librarian at Falls of Schuylkill Library and a participant in Cohort 3 of the Skills for Community-Centered Libraries trainings. As a children’s librarian, I work with our youngest patrons. Many of the…

Celebrate National Gardening Week with These Books and Gardening Tips!

National Gardening Week starts on June 2 and I, for one, will celebrate by staring obsessively at the Grandpa Ott morning glories that I planted a few weeks ago. Grandpa Ott is a gorgeous deep-purple flower with a magenta pink center.…

Urban Gardening with Native Plants Workshop

Don’t have a half-acre to turn into a native plant meadow? No problem! Whether your landscape is a rooftop deck, sidewalk in front of a row home, strip of grass or yard of any size, you can have a native plant garden in…

Kid's Gardening Club

Join us outside to explore the joys of gardening! We will plant seeds and make crafts that you can use to enhance your very own home garden! 7/24 Craft Garden

Kid's Gardening Club

Join us outside to explore the joys of gardening! We will plant seeds and make crafts that you can use to enhance your very own home garden! 7/10 Grass seed Pets 7/24 Craft Garden

Kid's Gardening Club

Join us outside to explore the joys of gardening! We will plant seeds and make crafts that you can use to enhance your very own home garden! 6/26 Sundials 7/10 Grass seed Pets 7/24 Craft Garden

Kid's Gardening Club

Join us outside to explore the joys of gardening! We will plant seeds and make crafts that you can use to enhance your very own home garden! 6/12 Seed Bombs 6/26 Sundials 7/10 Grass seed Pets 7/24 Craft…

Urban Gardening with Native Plants

Don’t have a half-acre to turn into a native plant meadow? No problem! Whether your landscape is a rooftop deck, sidewalk in front of a row home, strip of grass, or yard of any size, you can have a native plant garden in…

Urban Gardening with Native Plants

House Plants 101

Growing healthy houseplants can sometimes be a challenge. Join us for a class on how to care for indoor plants. You can bring your own plants, and your questions, to get help on common issues. All gardening levels are…

Urban Gardening with Native Plants

The Growing Circle

Are you a home gardener looking to connect with others who share your passion? Whether you're a seasoned expert or just getting started, The Growing Circle is the perfect place to swap tips, tricks, and seeds with fellow garden…

Spring 2025 Plant/Cutting Swap

Want to refresh your plant collection? Whitman Library is holding a plant/cutting swap! Bring a cutting or plant then take one of ours. New to plant care? Check out one of our display books. Please only swap tabletop-sized plants or…

Spring 2025 Plant/Cutting Swap

Urban Gardening with Native Plants

Spring 2025 Plant/Cutting Swap

Global Plants

Camille Dungy | Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

In conversation with Abra Lee Camille T. Dungy is the author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History , a debut personal essay collection that was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle…