If you’ve been on social media of late, you know that doughnuts are having a spotlight moment. Come July, however, one’s attention is best rewarded by a sweet treat of another stripe: a Jersey-grown doughnut peach. These luscious fruits hit farm stands once a year, in high summer. Though grown in the US since the early ’90s, they remain rare. Less than 1 percent of the state’s 66-million-pound annual peach crop are doughnuts, according to the New Jersey Peach Promotional Council. […]

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In a compact garden space in the Fairhill section of North Philadelphia, conversation echoed early on a spring Saturday. Inside, young plants were being united with soil, fresh green juxtaposing dark compost. Tending them were gardeners whose own youthful laughter was punctuated by exchanges in Spanish. How far apart should the tomatoes be planted? Do you water the plant or the dirt? It was the beginning of the season for the Youth Advocate Program, part of an international organization that […]

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