If you’re a fan of bees (and who isn’t nowadays?) and you want to take your fandom to the next level, you may want to enroll in Mark Berman’s three-hour dive into bees and beekeeping, “Be a Beekeeper for a Day,” which he offers at the home of his beehives, Growing Together Community Garden in South Philly. Berman, 56, is...

There are easier ways to spend a cold Saturday in March than standing beside a creek at dawn, stringing fly rods and explaining knots to middle school students who’ve never done this before. But I can’t think of many better ones. I serve as a mentor with The Mayfly Project’s first Philadelphia chapter. During four outings this spring, I had...

Last year, Weavers Way marked the first full year of the Germantown store being open, approached the 15,000 member threshold and started the Cooperative Food Fund to give cash benefits to Co-op members in response to the withholding of SNAP benefits during the federal government shutdown. But wait — there’s more! The full report, with charts, photos and everything, begins...