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 | | The garden, just like the collard greens, butter beans and Southern traditional foods, began to grow and flourish, and eventually caught the attention of Anne Spirn, a University of Pennsylvania landscape architect interested in the Mill Creek area. |
 | | Through Spirn's work, funding from the University of Pennsylvania, grants from the city for work with local schools and input from budding architectural students, the garden "became the professional, world-class garden it is today. |
 | | In 2002, PHS eliminated six positions and people who supported projects at Philadelphia Green, including a landscape architect, the coordinator of the Citywide Improvement Grants program, which provided funding to existing community gardens and the Garden Tenders coordinator, who taught instructional classes for new gardening groups in the city. |
| www.citypaper.net /articles/2003-08-07/cityspace.shtml (816 words) |
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