Neighborhood Transformation Initiative Phila

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so I grew up in south Philadelphia concrete city this is what my friends called my neighborhood see we didn't have trees or grass we just had concrete I was lucky I had my grandmother and she loved gardening she had one of the best gardens in East German town from her perennials to our annuals to our rose garden that she adored and I haven't even begun to talk about her vegetables but I'm going to tell you a secret I hated working and my grandmother's garden but as I became older I began to appreciate garden and why my grandmother loved it so much at the age of 23 I started my career in horticulture working with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society now and I was helping people plant vegetables and flower gardens but as gardeners became older and the landscape in Philadelphia started to change the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the city of Philadelphia began to look at this vacant land problem in a different way and to be honest with you I didn't think cleaning and grain and v