Recent Press About

The Grave Gardeners

“Volunteer gardeners tend to cradle graves at The Woodlands” (Grid Magazine August 8, 2020)

“Public Life After Death: How Six Cemeteries Are Reclaiming Their Role As Public Spaces” (Project for Public Spaces October 28, 2019)

“How Gardening Neglected Victorian Graves Brought Community To A Philadelphia Cemetery” (The Order of the Good Death June 5, 2019)

“Grave Gardeners: Volunteers help spiff up old cemeteries” (Associated Press May 22, 2019)

"Grave Gardeners program reconnects the Woodlands and Penn" (Penn Current February 27, 2018)

"Gardeners Bring Cradle Graves Back from the Dead" (Hidden City Philadelphia August 3, 2017)

"A Year Gardening the Grave of a Stranger" (Atlas Obscura July 06, 2017)

"West Philadelphia Cemetery Welcomes Community Gardeners" (NPR May 14, 2017)

"Grave gardeners bring Victorian blooms to West Philly's Woodlands" (WHYY March 24, 2017)

"Want to be a Grave Gardener in West Philly? Here's How" (Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 12, 2017)

"Cemeteries as Community Spaces" (Philadelphia Citizen January 10, 2017)

"Woodlands Garden Cemetery" (6ABC August 29th, 2016)